Preliminary notes live

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Originally Posted by Edli

5 DPS for one tank? I have a feeling tanks will have a harder time now to queue and DPS may be even instant.

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Good. I'm sick of queuing for an hour only to be presented with a tank in spiritbond gear, or one who opens with "please vote kick me after the second boss or I'll just AFK" instead of "hello".

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Originally Posted by Edli

5 DPS for one tank? I have a feeling tanks will have a harder time now to queue and DPS may be even instant.

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They'll live.

I can't help but notice there's a new ultima quest :D

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Originally Posted by snowybell

I can't help but notice there's a new ultima quest :D

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The new Minstrel's Ballad quest? That's for the new brutal/savage version of SCoB.

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Originally Posted by Ninix

The new Minstrel's Ballad quest? That's for the new brutal/savage version of SCoB.

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yeah :( too excited when i posted, just scrolled down and saw the savage coil 2. sigh ~_~

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Originally Posted by Edli

5 DPS for one tank? I have a feeling tanks will have a harder time now to queue and DPS may be even instant.

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I guess that many of the new tanks are gonna go with DPS again ^^. This can backfire for the other random dungeons though.

So... No Ixal Dailies? There camp has been up in North Shroud since the last update, figured we'd be getting them this update... :(

Yoshi said in the Live Letter that the Ixali are scheduled for 2.35. Their system is a little different than the others. I also don't think that North Shroud spawn area is going to be the camp. Possible of course but it would break with the all the other beastman dailies where the camp is in the same zone as the Beastman Stronghold. Having to zone to run your dailies or constantly tele to Dragonhead would get annoying.

Aye, it'll be a crafting focus rather than "here go kill these annoying guys" or "carry this damn thing over there".

Regarding the tome rewards are they essentially nerfing the instance completion reward and spreading the lost Soldiery tomes out as boss rewards?

Has their been any confirmation that Ifrit EX, Garuda EX & Moogle EX will be dropping i95 weapons?
The following items are in the new items list which kinda gives us a clue...

Thunderstrike Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 100 / Equipment Level: 50
Inferno Blade Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 95 / Equipment Level: 50
Gaze of the Vortex Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 95 / Equipment Level: 50
Morbid Moggle Mogblade Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 95 / Equipment Level: 50

There's a set of these for each class - it kinda makes sense considering the current jewellery drops from the EX primals are pretty much useless now.

Those are the augmented Primal Weps. You get those demimateria items from desynthing a wep it would seem and you can then use it to augment another wep to i95 (they're the glowy ones). Those are GLD's weps btw so the augmented Titan shield is farther down the item list.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Those are the augmented Primal Weps. You get those demimateria items from desynthing a wep it would seem and you can then use it to augment another wep to i95 (they're the glowy ones)

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Ah thanks ^^ Have to admit I got quite excited when I saw them in the list, but the desynthing thing also makes sense

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

Regarding the tome rewards are they essentially nerfing the instance completion reward and spreading the lost Soldiery tomes out as boss rewards?

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I think it's more likely they're just spreading the myth across all three bosses. The nerf is to coincide with moving them to the HM roulette.

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

Regarding the tome rewards are they essentially nerfing the instance completion reward and spreading the lost Soldiery tomes out as boss rewards?

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They Nerf'd the Soldiery Rewards from the Old HM Dungeons since Hull-Breaker and the two new HMs are out.

Let me get this straight. There's only one special chest that drops from the final boss in syrcus tower that has a 30% chance of spawning. And then 24 people will lot on it? That is a whopping 1.25% chance of obtaining whatever is in there (assuming unidentified allagan tombstone). That is insane considering the dungeon takes at least 30 minutes each time. On average, a player would have to do 100 CT runs to get just an unidentified allagan tombstone? It doesn't seem right. Just like how ridiculous the drop rate for mirrors are considering i100 weapons are almost too common now.

If it's consistent with LotA then that 4th chest is the crafting item to make Xande's Throne. That chest is exempt from the loot lockout. They wouldn't put the UAT in THAT...

That BLM buff is ridiculous, I'm all up for a DPS increase but they left AoE intact and (as a side effect) boosted burst damage, so now BLM is top tier burst, top tier aoe and nearly top tier sustained damage.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFlare

Let me get this straight. There's only one special chest that drops from the final boss in syrcus tower that has a 30% chance of spawning. And then 24 people will lot on it? That is a whopping 1.25% chance of obtaining whatever is in there (assuming unidentified allagan tombstone). That is insane considering the dungeon takes at least 30 minutes each time. On average, a player would have to do 100 CT runs to get just an unidentified allagan tombstone? It doesn't seem right. Just like how ridiculous the drop rate for mirrors are considering i100 weapons are almost too common now.

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Your contempt at your own conjecture is amusing.
Maybe they should just give it to everyone upon entry and we can act like SCoB never existed.
They add a chance for a high level upgrade and you act like it should be automatic for everyone to receive.
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Ooh! Another Wandering Minstrel!

"Players must first complete the quest "The Ultimate Ballad" and have completed the Second Coil of Bahamut - Turn 4."


..Oh. Guess won't be seeing him this patch. Or Anymore if you need to complete the previous songs. Oh well excited for Hidibrand story and Ramuh fight!

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Originally Posted by Logo

Your contempt at your own conjecture is amusing.
Maybe they should just give it to everyone upon entry and we can act like SCoB never existed.
They add a chance for a high level upgrade and you act like it should be automatic for everyone to receive.
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That's about 50 hours of CT assuming no wipes and each run only takes 30 minutes just for a UAT. I downed T7 after like 5 hours of trying so there's a huge discrepancy in the time spent/reward ratio there.

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Soooo... when are we getting actual male hairstyles?

Best thing about the notes is HP percentages on the life-bars...that will help raiding so much, since no one has to rely on call-outs from a parser anymore, and everyone can see it as it really is.

I'm feeling like there is more to the class rebalancing than was written. It IS the preliminary notes, and they aren't going to put stuff that will really do something to that in.

Hunts...looks like Elite Hunts are NMs. Ugh...camping the spawn and competing against everyone :(

Those minions. Even though the description is just SO WRONG, I really want the Succubus minion...

New treasure map... Yes Please. Love running maps.

I'm guessing the i80 armor is dropped from the new Dungeons. Should be good for Frontlines.

i90 crafted accessories...ugh, here we go again...

Dungeons look great

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Originally Posted by OmegaFlare

That's about 50 hours of CT assuming no wipes and each run only takes 30 minutes just for a UAT. I downed T7 after like 5 hours of trying so there's a huge discrepancy in the time spent/reward ratio there.

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But not everyone can down T7, while almost everyone will be able to clear ST.

This is just an alternative, SCoB remains as the main way to get those special items.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFlare

That's about 50 hours of CT assuming no wipes and each run only takes 30 minutes just for a UAT. I downed T7 after like 5 hours of trying so there's a huge discrepancy in the time spent/reward ratio there.

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It does give people a reason to do ST after they get their weekly piece of loot however, which I'm pretty sure is the point of it since the loot restriction does not apply to that chest.

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

It will put some pressure on the ONLY TANK. Picture this: A 24-man raid -> 3 tanks -> 21 people left staring at you..

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I love it. Tanks are attention whores and like to be in the center of attention, mostly. The more staring at my behind the merrier. :D

Dungeons on this game should have been designed around 1/1/3 dps from the start IMO to fix the long queue for DPS. They introduced 3 new dungeons and they still have 1/1/2.

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Originally Posted by LetBloodline

It's good to get a more or less 10% buff on single target still it feels.... anonymus...

Maybe i just had hopes too high about stacking firestarters =(

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Stacking is a nice, logical, argument started by the playerbase but never hinted at by the developers. Sadly.

Guess they call them Reagan peppers cuz they make your choco forget.

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Originally Posted by SinSTAR

Has their been any confirmation that Ifrit EX, Garuda EX & Moogle EX will be dropping i95 weapons?
The following items are in the new items list which kinda gives us a clue...

Thunderstrike Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 100 / Equipment Level: 50
Inferno Blade Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 95 / Equipment Level: 50
Gaze of the Vortex Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 95 / Equipment Level: 50
Morbid Moggle Mogblade Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 95 / Equipment Level: 50

There's a set of these for each class - it kinda makes sense considering the current jewellery drops from the EX primals are pretty much useless now.

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My guess is that there weapons will be obtained by combining materials gained from de-synthesizing primal weapons and HM primal weapons. Maybe via the NPC in Mor Dhona or Gerolt.

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Originally Posted by Edli

I love it. Tanks are attention whores and like to be in the center of attention, mostly. The more staring at my behind the merrier. :D

Dungeons on this game should have been designed around 1/1/3 dps from the start IMO to fix the long queue for DPS. They introduced 3 new dungeons and they still have 1/1/2.

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I'm just throwing feedback here. The 2/2/4 ratio in higher trials/raids is definitely more suitable given how many DPS exist later in the game. The problem is simply that the DPS class is so attractive for many players, not that the normal queues have too few slots for DPS. Aside from a few dungeons, who gets blamed particularly for losing? Usually the Healer or Tank. Who wants to typically be in those kinds of crosshairs? Not nearly as many as those who only have to be responsible for themselves. I think SE botched a good chance to add a Tank/Healer class in. I'm also a DPS person, so I'm saying this out of my being a DPS person.

rareception:
rare drop from the unhidden map, itself a rare drop from a chest

only scholar has no changes...

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Originally Posted by Gardes

Wonder what ronald reagan peppers are for?

Also the new hairstyles are there!

Edit: I'm not sure I'm satisfied with the BLM changes..

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It allow you to re-skill your chocobo

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Players can now reset their chocobo companion's skill points using reagan peppers.
Reagan peppers can be purchased with company seals or Allied Seals from the Grand Company headquarters in each city-state.

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It cost 48k GC seals

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Originally Posted by Pantz

New phrases have been added to the auto-translation dictionary.

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Category Entry
Questions What are you doing?
Reasons We're chewing the fat.

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... Am I missing something? :confused:

What in the world would auto-translating "We're chewing the fat." be used for?

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It's slang for talking. I assume it's an entirely different phrase in Japanese, and they localized it to a phrase that means about the same thing rather than directly translating it.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFlare

That's about 50 hours of CT assuming no wipes and each run only takes 30 minutes just for a UAT. I downed T7 after like 5 hours of trying so there's a huge discrepancy in the time spent/reward ratio there.

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Well keep doing T7 then?

If im reading this right the trials roulette just got alot more difficult to complete. Looks like they added garuda, titan, ifrit, levi, and moogle extreme and ultima. Good luck with that.

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Duty Roulette: Trials A Relic Reborn: The Chimera 50
A Relic Reborn: The Hydra 50
Battle on the Big Bridge 50
The Bowl of Embers (Hard) 60
The Howling Eye (Hard) 60
The Navel (Hard) 75
Thornmarch (Hard) 60
The Whorleater (Hard) 75
The Minstrel's Ballad: Ultima's Bane 75
The Howling Eye (Extreme) 100
The Navel (Extreme) 100
The Bowl of Embers (Extreme) 100
Thornmarch (Extreme) 100
The Whorleater (Extreme)

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

If im reading this right the trials roulette just got alot more difficult to complete. Looks like they added garuda, titan, ifrit, levi, and moogle extreme and ultima. Good luck with that.

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ugh. Too many bad people in Duty Finder to be a reliable way to clear extremes.

From what I read

Mon Hunts is gonna be like you are doing Animus Book quest?

"Go kill Garlean soldiers x10" and then you see everyone genocide them at garlean camp while you can't steal one of it? truly? this shit gonna happens again?

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Originally Posted by meJojo

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Soooo... when are we getting actual male hairstyles?

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The 3rd one is male
(some players wanted long hair for male characters)

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Originally Posted by Felis

The 3rd one is male
(some players wanted long hair for male characters)

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The 4th one is a male too.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFlare

Let me get this straight. There's only one special chest that drops from the final boss in syrcus tower that has a 30% chance of spawning. And then 24 people will lot on it? That is a whopping 1.25% chance of obtaining whatever is in there (assuming unidentified allagan tombstone). That is insane considering the dungeon takes at least 30 minutes each time. On average, a player would have to do 100 CT runs to get just an unidentified allagan tombstone? It doesn't seem right. Just like how ridiculous the drop rate for mirrors are considering i100 weapons are almost too common now.

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Or maybe you can just read the text correctly and understand that this 4th chest will drop the jewel to craft Xande's throne and that's why it's not considered a loot for the week.

The allagan tomestone is going to be in the regular chests.

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Oh, your translation is weird, in french it clearly states that the items that count as the weekly loot are equipments and upgrade items. Therefore the upgrade items can't be in this final chest.

Also, cf CT1

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

It will put some pressure on the ONLY TANK. Picture this: A 24-man raid -> 3 tanks -> 21 people left staring at you. I know the new CT will be a cake like the Labyrinth of the Ancients, but keep in mind that we had to deal with awful and very troll players. Good thing, all the tank loot is mine!

Edit: This was an unrelated observation. Quoted for the sake of keeping the conversation about this subject.

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Well, look how much 6 tanks where needed in CT1 :) either clicking towers or just hitting things. CT1 was doable with 3 tanks.