[Cactuar]

The upcoming major version update will see the following adjustments made to Abyssea:

• New Ways to Obtain Empyrean Upgrade Items
  
• Empyrean +1 seals will be made obtainable via new battlefields.
  
• Empyrean +2 items will be made obtainable from notorious monsters in additional Abyssea areas as follows:
  
  
  • Heroes of Abyssea area items will also appear in Scars of Abyssea.
    
  • Scars of Abyssea area items will also appear in Vision of Abyssea.
  
  
• Visitant Light Status
  In addition to visitant duration remaining, players will be able to inspect their active lights when healing.
  
  
• Notorious Monster Weaknesses
  The following blue magic spells will no longer be effective against enemy weaknesses:
  Death Ray / Blitzstrahl / Hecatomb Wave / 1000 Needles / Frost Breath / Firespit / Regurgitation / Seedspray

[via [dev1003] Abyssea Adjustments]

[Vangoh32]

Cactuar, on 13 April 2011 - 11:23 AM, said:

[*] New Ways to Obtain Empyrean Upgrade Items

That was pretty much what I was looking forward, more ways get stupid seals/coins.

This post has been edited by Vangoh32: 13 April 2011 - 02:26 PM

[Deo2]

Visions needed this. It's unfair to bring an entire linkshell down there so one person could get stage1 weapon upgrade items with no +1/+2 side benefits to the participating members.

[Xani]

Well, Sqeenix has shocked me. Maybe I can finally get these damn seals done.