The only aforementioned areas are getting adjusted the rest stay the same really outside of the exp bonus and item adjustments. Aqueducts are easy though, its probably one of the easiest one next to the NM fights for 3-1 > 3-3.

Besides most of the equips you should probably have stored anyway...i have a bunch of stored equip and old equipment that i kept for level capped BCNM fights(like beastmen seal ones, not COP) and honestly i would think most people would understand the value of being able to do so. Most NQ gear is pretty cheap i have stored, Seer Tunic is 6K on middy, and Eisen is 9K, with RS Chainmail 10K, and most expensive being IM body being 25K...the higher lvl 60 cap only means you get free AF to use.

Items are cheap too now thanks to Assaults dropping potions left and right. Hi Pots +3 are 2K at most now, and Hi Pot Tanks are 8K for 20 uses, Hi Ether is 1.5K for one, with the tanks being 15K. Rest of it are reletively cheap meds too like Echo Drops and Antidotes. Reading the mission comes beforehand and should always be done with the only thing being the REAL problem is : Stupid people, which is say ask some friends and plan things out.


What i am trying to say is, i think you are overexaggerating things, while its true you might wipe a ton of times and waste item and gil doing so, its not as difficult as never being able to do it. A lil prep goes a long way really. The only real problem honestly is just people. Find a good COP LS or some close friends, thats all one can say, and this patch might be able to give you some more help when you are missing that one person.

I just finished Mammets and the only thing that made it a 7hr trip is a stupid party member, in which we decided to all go back to whitegate and shout for another person(we actually made it farther with 5 than with 6 people..). Then we won with the right ammount of thinking(thank you Armando for Flat Blade <3) and execution. Half the fun in COP is knowing that you can lose, unlike RoZ missions.

And yes you can farm Anima soloing or with an NPC via Signal/Tactics Pearl, its reletively easy to do so too...just fight Wanderers at Floor 1 and you will eventually get some.