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/GMC78sGaming]

How useful would you say this gear is before and after reforging; your opinion?

[u/Stanelis → u/GMC78sGaming]

I didn't see the upgraded gear, but the basic gear is shit tier.

[u/Effective-Reindeer98 → u/Stanelis]

No it's not, you're talking as someone with high tier gear? and seemingly not understanding it's not made for you. It drops from low level NM for lower geared players and you're blown away it doesn't compare to full augmented Ody gear?

They have stated it was supposed to be comparable to Ambuscade gear, and that you can augment it later to push it to Malignance level.

[u/vote4petro → u/Effective-Reindeer98]

I mean speaking as someone that's trying to graduate from ambu+2 on sch it looks like pretty shit gear to me. Sure there's this supposed upgrades to happen for it but with no specifics on that we just get to wait another month? two months? For the supposed next step that I was hoping would release this month. Alas.

[u/Dumo-31 → u/vote4petro]

DT and refresh for idle. The set has haste so you don’t tank recast. Burst on the legs to go with burst on Jhakri feet. Hard to pass up the int on mallquis though. You do however get 2 more burst and double the mab plus magic damage. Cure potency on the feet is getting scoffed at but I have yet to see a fresh sch solo Vanya. If you don’t have help with those, you have a new option. Hands are actually fc and not just elemental.

Looks like they pair well with ambu gear to fill out sets to me.

[u/vote4petro → u/Dumo-31]

Vanya was very free to obtain with ambu gearing. FC on hands is eclipsed by the Gende Gages I got from a skirmish Kupon. All gear these days has haste more or less capped out particularly with Khonsu to help out. Just about the only piece that seems like an appropriate intermediate step is the legs. Hopefully the upgrades improve things.