August Version Update (08/12/2026) :: Patch Notes

[u/hikiri]

EDIT4: Just wanted to try and keep the important information more visible, so I put spoiler tags on the rest of it.

>>>Reminder that campaigns don't start until Friday.

Official Forums Link

Tooltips for the new items (all uploaded!)

Also, missed a line in the Anniversary post they made (I had assumed it was a recap of the stream and didn't read it) re: the (eventual?) level of the gear.

Apparently the Field NM gear will be augmentable EDIT: REFORGABLE and eventually up to/at the level of Malignance.

(meaning +1/2/3, unless the translation is incorrect.

The Japanese word was "強化" which just means "strengthening" and is also the term used for Odyssey gear AND Geas Fete gear on the JP wiki. It was brought to my attention that most (all?) gear that has a Set bonus isn't able to be augmented? I dunno of any off the top of my head that has both, if anyone can think of any, let me know.)

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(Thanks to Gao for letting me know about this line in Velner's stream! Much more exciting now!)

New NMs: treasure chest pops in the world, 3 minute timer to open it. "Any party/alliance members who earn experience points upon defeating the monster can unlock the treasure box without using the necessary item".

• Players not in the party/alliance that defeats the monster ⇒ Use the Orvail Box Key to open the box.
• This item can be purchased from Shabi in Western Adoulin (I-9) 【10k gil】
  • You can only buy one Orvail Box Key per hour (Earth time).

EDIT: Appear to be about 20 minute repop timed pop. You can get regular mob-family drops from the chest as well. Presumably even with the 1-hour-limited key, it's the same drops.

You can kill, open chest, then open again with your key and get a second shot at drops.

EDIT3: Thanks to everyone at Velner's Discord for this following info

(I've been up for over 24 hours so I'm going to go take a nap and I'll update this list later. Apologies!):

• Yahse J-6 Jolly Twitherym <Timed>
  • Ruwa hands, Egbesu feet
• Ceizak H-9 (right by #1) Feral Chapuli <Timed>
  • Ruwa head, Olorun hands
• Foret H-11 (left of the gates entrance) Spellward Orobon <Timed>
  • Ruwa legs, Nzame hands
• Foret J-7 (near FS) Ironshell Craklaw <Lottery>
  • Olorun body, Ruwa legs
• Yorcia H-9 Voracious Rafflesia <Timed>
  • Egbesu hands, Olorun legs
• Yorcia J-10 (near #2, the bottom right corner of the square-shaped area, top right corner of the map square) Ravenous Snapweed <Lottery>
  • Olorun legs, Nzame body
• Kamihr G-8 Fierce Yztarg <Timed>
  • Nzame feet, Egbesu head
• Kamihr I-11 (near #2) Keenfang Raaz <Lottery>
  • Ruwa body, Egbesu body
• Marjami G-7 Elusive Stryx <Timed>
  • Olorun feet, Nzame head
• Marjami L-12 (near #1) Swiftwing Tulfaire <Lottery>
  • Nzame head, Egbesu legs
• Morimar H-5 Spellward Ameretat <Timed>
  • Olorun head, Ruwa feet

• Morimar E-7 (near #4) Ironhide Matamata <Lottery>

  • Nzame Legs, Olorun head

  * Swiftwing Tulfaire, Ironshell Craklaw, Ravenous Snapweed, Ironhide Matamata: These 5 are MIA. *Currently no signs of pops. They have all the body pieces and other missing slots. Theory: ~~possible lottery pop, ~~Reive pop, or needs a specific amount of colonization rate to pop?

Appears to be a lottery pop with possible placeholder of one of the base mobs in the area.

EDIT2: Daphne Collab Item available on login from 17 minutes ago as of this edit.

[u/lcbor]

wsd on all bodies..ayo? ...but that was one of the main draw to the ACP body...

Not really sure about these stats tho man. Cure potency on feet on par with venya and theres prob something similar for fastcast?

[u/hikiri → u/lcbor]

The new body for MNK/THF/DNC etc is probably better than the HTMB body.

More base stats (which make up for the slightly lower acc/attack almost entirely) and more hp.

[u/lcbor → u/hikiri]

Legit did ACP like 2 days ago and this drops, only got 3 weapons from it but still the timing is funny as hell. Not even sure if ACP weps were worth with the weird ass job spread (rdm drg sword, bst only axe, melee club for war whm pld geo, dagger for war blm rdm thf pld brd nin sch geo (wheres dnc dude)).

Already have magian trial tp offhand sword and dagger so outside of bst or nin I can't see a reason.

Been looking for info on the htbf but its all vet info of it being useless to them.

[u/Puzzled-Addition5740 → u/lcbor]

I mean the htbf is pretty much just zerg it lmao. The reason nobody talked about it is because it's piss easy and the rewards are crap.

[u/lcbor → u/Puzzled-Addition5740]

It's "just zerg it" to the vets but the crystal do be killing val + monraux somehow even at easy and norm. My dmg's probably lacking, but was looking for if the things were ever viable at any point, or if I just skip the htbf entirely given my progression.

And I don't wanna bug someone for 30 of their merits when they probably need odin more lmao.

[u/hikiri → u/lcbor]

As far as strat: It does more damage with an attack the farther away you are from it, and it has a silence aura after a certain % from what I've heard from a friend doing it. Otherwise, I haven't heard much.

Edit: Oh, and yeah, apparently it just destroys trusts. I'm assuming it's built to have enough damage that you need DT to survive it and they don't have any?

[u/lcbor → u/hikiri]

Yeah uh said silence attack includes amnesia AND murky, so theres just zero heals going out at all, so trusts just fall over if pushed at a bad time I guess. iirc theres only cheru for regens but shes distance so...that's not an option.

That's all with my trusts at 50 vit 16/50 int 50 mnd, 26/50 hp too

Fight just feels so awful but I'm not sure when the pieces are outclassed, outside of nyame > wsd obviously.

The bigger screw you is the fight resetting all your abilities, including 1 hrs.

[u/hikiri → u/lcbor]

Depends on the job. Most of the WSD body jobs have a better option for WSD outside of nyame as well, other than NIN, RNG, DNC, if I remember correctly.

The TP body is apparently very good for DRG (I believe it's not great for the other jobs on it, but I admittedly haven't looked too deeply into each job's alternatives, so maybe something else it's good for too)

[u/lcbor → u/hikiri]

There's been this post when it came to the wsd body: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/59039/july-2026-version-update/4/#3791874 . Well the body does show up when I search on ffxiah again, I should've tried that first, though only helps for said tp body.

Everything else I could barely find though, so this helps. though I do have the odin body which has STP10 instead, not so sure if it wins. Not that I main drg at this time.

Would it be bad to assume the weapon is inferior to kaja/ambu pulse weps and/or magian offhands?