SE and their sneaky updates.

[Demon6324236]

Now incase no one else heard, apparently Mage's Ballad was added to drop off of low lv Yagudo BRDs. I don't recall them saying anything about this change, so it seems a bit sneaky on their part.

I have experienced something today that seems out of the norm, and I wonder if it was also changed. Today me & my gf were doing the T2 VNM in Uleg[A] for SAM & DRG seals. While doing this, we got a T3 pop. This was awesome for us, but since I could no longer pop, we had her pop, well, we popped 1, and killed it, nothing out of the norm. Next kill, hers upgraded, shortly after, I went to go for BST seals in Altepa, and sure enough, 1st kill, I upgrade to yet another T3.

Now I don't know what to think of this honestly. It could be extreme luck on upgrades, but since I heard of them making this sneaky update I thought maybe, just maybe... They may have answered the cries of all of the PLDs & BRDs out there wanting increased upgrade rate. In only 4 kills I got 3 T3 pops, which any time I have done T2s before, it has always taken upwards of 6 kills for a single T3, let alone 3 almost back to back.

Does anyone else know of any other secret changes, or if they were really secret at all? Was I just really lucky today, or did they actually change the rate on T3s?

[Komori]

Does the first Mage's Ballad really drop off of low level Yag BRDs? But they actually did make note that they were updating T2 upgrade rate some time ago.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Someone check Ridill's drop rate, it is very important.

[Demon6324236]

Does the first Mage's Ballad really drop off of low level Yag BRDs? But they actually did make note that they were updating T2 upgrade rate some time ago.

If you look at the Mage's Ballad (http://www.ffxiah.com/item/4994/mages-ballad) page on AH.com it has a comment saying
Today SE steathly added Mage's Ballad as a drop from Yagudo Piper in Giddeus and Meriphated Mountains.

So while someone on each server makes a small fortune before the majority figures it out, I notice Valefor and Cerberus both have zero in stock. Let the games begin.also remember reading a thread about it yesterday before sleeping and someone I know said they got it while farming a NM in Giddeus. Also I thought they had already done the T2~3 upgrade changes before months ago, and I myself never saw much difference, I could be wrong and have missed it however. I just wanted to know if it was me being lucky or if they changed it because it seems like making my 2nd character's Ochain will be quite a bit easier. :D

[Bigrob33]

Though it doesn't say what it drops specifically, the last version update notes on the forum does say something about the yagado pipers drop items being modified. Sorry for no link, typing from my phone and not real sure how. Check out the July 24th update post.

[Modoru]

The items dropped by the Yagudo Pipers found in Giddeus and Meriphataud Mountains have been modified.

sauce (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/25812)

Delicious, delicious sauce.

[Zhronne]

I wish they could do something about Raise III and Paeon V.
For the first I simply don't want to waste 1 mils gil, for the second... I just wish I could find it on AH, or someone helping me doing the ENM since appearently I can't seem to be able to solo it >_>

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Right after the update, I tossed 6 before I realised what I was tossing.

[Ezikiel]

Right after the update, I tossed 6 before I realised what I was tossing.


me pointing and laughing

[Tsukino_Kaji]

me pointing and laughingYeah, after the 7th one it hit me and my first thought was "MF! >.<"

[RAIST]

not just you Demon...I've noticed a marked increase in the upgrades at times too. Back when I was running for Ketea...seemed like that @#$@# would never upgrade, but since I started doing Lusca a lot, it likes to go back to back a good bit. Whatever happened, I wish they could do a little more of it, as it's not consistent. Maybe it's just been given a funkier range for success or they've done something crazy like tie a tweak into moon phase or something.

Who knows with SE.

[Demon6324236]

not just you Demon...I've noticed a marked increase in the upgrades at times too. Back when I was running for Ketea...seemed like that @#$@# would never upgrade, but since I started doing Lusca a lot, it likes to go back to back a good bit. Whatever happened, I wish they could do a little more of it, as it's not consistent. Maybe it's just been given a funkier range for success or they've done something crazy like tie a tweak into moon phase or something.

Who knows with SE.

I hope it isn't anything to crazy, then again, like you said, who knows with SE. This is the company that thought adding an extremely helpful critical feature to an endgame event that could only be triggered by an emote by a player with current hate, and not telling players about it, was a good idea. Good to know it wasn't just me getting lucky though :) seems my Ochain wont be such a pain afterall!

[Luvbunny]

Well at least the sneaky update is for the betterment of the game - and not some major nerf. Good thing they are still willing to improve the 2 years old content so old its outdated abyssea. Hopefully they will still focusing on tweaking and updating abyssea even after the new expansion is out since it is the best crack ever that grace FFXI.