Tiamat

[geekgirl101]

So I heard Tiamat is going to drop some high tier gear in one of the upcoming patches. Better hope that Tiamat doesn't still take 3 days to respawn or is changed to a spawned mob because the only people who actually give a rat's rear about camping Tiamat are bots and rmt.

[Zarchery]

I strongly doubt it will be that way. Will likely be similar to Fafnir/Behemoth/Adamantoise and be force pop.

[Shirai]

I don't think the pop conditions will change, the way I interpret it is that Tiamat's main drop (The Herald's Gaiters) will be added to one of the High Tier battlefields, (Ouryu comes to mind.) and that Tiamat will recieve a Rare/Ex version of these.
We'll know for sure by next Thursday though.

[geekgirl101]

I don't think the pop conditions will change, the way I interpret it is that Tiamat's main drop (The Herald's Gaiters) will be added to one of the High Tier battlefields, (Ouryu comes to mind.) and that Tiamat will recieve a Rare/Ex version of these.
We'll know for sure by next Thursday though.

I'd be hoping for this for sure! 15mil gil gaiters on our server all owned by bots. They'll still camp him for the money and rare mats I guess but maybe not so often if the boots are made rare/ex as they won't be able to sell the gil. :P

[Alhanelem]

They wouldn't just add new gear to an old NM like that. It would be a new version, and the new version would probably be a pop NM or BC.

[bazookatooth]

It says "Setting high-tier mission battelfield loot" next to tiamat changes in the update notes. I'm thinking they will be adding tiamat to the merit point battle system.

[Sayomi]

Changing pop conditions? Let's not make this game easier please. Lol. They should make HNMS stronger and make things like besieged and campaign harder and more rewarding and make ballistic give some good stuff so we can beat each other up while bored!

[Tidis]

Changing pop conditions? Let's not make this game easier please. Lol.

Making 12% mage movement speed feet more obtainable isn't going to break the game, a lot of people already rode sandstorm 12% movement speed as it is already.

[Shirai]

It says "Setting high-tier mission battelfield loot" next to tiamat changes in the update notes. I'm thinking they will be adding tiamat to the merit point battle system.

Let's specifiy what the march update sais:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/46512-March-Version-Update-Announcement?p=545300#post545300

Tiamat Drop Changes

Drop Changes

I really think that all that will change is the place where the Herald's gaiters will drop, and adding a rare/ex alternative to Timmy, aka the same thing they did years ago with the Jeuno NMs when those were heavily botted by RMT.

[Sayomi]

Making 12% mage movement speed feet more obtainable isn't going to break the game, a lot of people already rode sandstorm 12% movement speed as it is already.

Yea you're right maybe we should have it pop in MH too so we don't have to do something so tedious as to run out to chasm. =D

[Tidis]

Yea you're right maybe we should have it pop in MH too so we don't have to do something so tedious as to run out to chasm. =D

There's always the waypoint warp to the chasm.

[Ladynamine]

According to a post in regards of Tiamat:


こんにちは

Tiamatとヘラルドゲートルの調整について、続報をお知らせします。

3月バージョンアップにて、Tiamatのドロップするアイテムを、
Rare Ex属性を持ったヘラルドゲートルと同等の性能を持つ装備品に変更する予定です。

既存のヘラルドゲートルはTiamatのドロップから削除され、
代わりにバトルフィールドの報酬として入手できるようにする予定です。
Page source of information: Tiamat post #12(Final Fantasy XI Japanese Forums) (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/45850-Tiamat?p=542381&viewfull=1#post542381)

Google Translate (according to the translation... and confirmation): The item, Herald's Gaiters, will be removed from the spoils of Tiamat and will be replaced by a Rare/Ex version of the Gaiters. Furthermore, Herald Gaiters will be a drop item to a bcnm.

[Shirai]

I'm sorry, I have to, I can't resist.

I don't think the pop conditions will change, the way I interpret it is that Tiamat's main drop (The Herald's Gaiters) will be added to one of the High Tier battlefields, (Ouryu comes to mind.) and that Tiamat will recieve a Rare/Ex version of these.
We'll know for sure by next Thursday though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsqmU3v0hVA

[bazookatooth]

Changing pop conditions? Let's not make this game easier please. Lol.

You seem to be confusing killing tiamat with doing something difficult. I'm sure at some point killing tiamat was considered "Hard" by someone, but nowadays (and for the last several years) the hardest thing about killing tiamat is convincing yourself that you care about killing tiamat. The best thing they could do to make tiamat harder is allow people to pop it any time they want. Because no NM is easier than an NM that you don't have to fight. And almost no one fights tiamat. Making it a pop NM would make it infinitely harder for people who currently don't fight it at all.