Patch 3.5 Notes (Preliminary)

I can't find the full list of new dungeon gear items, am I missing something? It's a link that doesn't work for me.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

I can't find the full list of new dungeon gear items, am I missing something? It's a link that doesn't work for me.

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They'll be in full patchnotes, which are released when game goes to maintenance for patch 3.5.

I'm positively thrilled they've fixed 2 of the biggest problems with triple triad. Now if they could just fix the card drop rate from old dungeons (I have run Snowcloak 10 times still no Fenrir card) I will be a happy potater.

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Originally Posted by Texa

I have run Snowcloak 10 times still no Fenrir card

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My friend had to run the Aery over 300 times to get the Nidhogg(?) card. He did some trials too, no luck.

RNG is so fun!

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Originally Posted by Squigley

My friend had to run the Aery over 300 times to get the Nidhogg(?) card. He did some trials too, no luck.

RNG is so fun!

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I got lucky and got my Nidhogg card on my clear of his normal mode trial, but the overall drop rates seem to be unnecessarily low. I've seen the unicolt drop more often in the Vault than the Charibert card, which I also don't have, even though I do that dungeon at least 4 times a week.

They could put some of the old boss cards on the battlehall npcs too, that'd give more reason to go there on top of the tournaments.

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Originally Posted by Remus

The Far Edge of QoL

There are so many QoL in this patch I was honestly also disappointed at the same time lol. Hope the full release has some better details. Nothing in the preliminary excited me really. Also only 5 quests for MSQ? They better have some long cut scenes because that is a very small amount. I know there will be Part 2 but its still small :/

Maybe it's because I have looked at patch notes for 3 years now I expected like 3/4 of it already lol

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Actually, I think this is a very good thing. They are adding a lot of QoL improvements prior to StormBlood. I am sure that a lot of the writing and design focus for content is on StormBlood right now, but the team that works on the core game and UI can be steaming ahead with QoL, performance and stability enhancements ahead of the SB launch. SB will be that much better with all those small improvements.

Plus the group pose and camera stuff should keep some people busy for months.

Speaking of performance I wonder when the PS4 Pro's extra GPU resource will be enabled in this game? Not that it affects me at the moment, since I an not a PS4Pro owner - yet.

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Originally Posted by Pomelo

They really like to push this group pose/screenshot feature don't they....

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And why not? With the ridiculous explosion in the taking and sharing of selfies in the real world, it seems only natural that people would want to do the same in Eorzea. Plus, screen shots are fun, making better screenshots is even more fun.

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Originally Posted by Anzaman

Same, tried to do couple earlier - somehow it didn't register and weather changed afterwards so I "missed" it.

But guess I'll have to try them again now.. :(

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...and suddenly all ARR zones are full of sightseers who just can't get enough of those wonderful Eorzean vistas. I'll be very surprised if some enterprising players don't set themselves up as tour guides. Tour guides who will take a party to each vista and tell the party about the view and how best to achieve it...for a price of course...lol

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Originally Posted by Ageofwar

I wouldn't consider the gpose feature a waste of time I find it quite useful but then again I take a lot of screenshots

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Indeed, It's like the Hildebrand quests, every piece of content does not have to please every player, it's a buffet of content that appeals to different players differently. I like the gpose feature, the changes are very nice.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Triple triad tournament with random match ups. NPCs no longer use the random rule.

Yes.

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Definitely, that rule was such a PITA. It was kind of like allowing the NPC to cheat even more so than normal...

So when is this going live?

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Originally Posted by Sciwolf

So when is this going live?

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3.5 goes live Tuesday January 17th 2:00 a.m pst

So good, so good... Praise Halone for QoL.

Love it. So many good changes.

Fixing Chocobo companions, finally, alone made this patch great.

Dye in the fitting roo, so good.

Little further is needed for the fitting room in my opinion. Maybe SE could look into gear restriction previews. Maybe give a generic stand in. I've been having some trouble when trying to make glamours for my opposite gendered retainers.

Flying text for other players has been categorized as pop-up text, which can be disabled via the Character Configuration interface.
http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/1bb...57ed97_118.png

Finally! This means that my screen won't be cluttered with other people's dmg

Those hotbar QoLs. Love it and can't wait to rearrange my UI.

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Originally Posted by myahele

Flying text for other players has been categorized as pop-up text, which can be disabled via the Character Configuration interface.
http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/1bb...57ed97_118.png

Finally! This means that my screen won't be cluttered with other people's dmg

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You mean you DON'T want to see 9999! everywhere?

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Originally Posted by Remus

Also only 5 quests for MSQ? They better have some long cut scenes because that is a very small amount. I know there will be Part 2 but its still small :/

Maybe it's because I have looked at patch notes for 3 years now I expected like 3/4 of it already lol

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Well, the number of quests can be deceiving, because you can have one quest that has you talk to 13 different people for 26 different reasons and get a crap ton of story out of it, or you can get a quest that sends you to talk to a single person and is done.

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Originally Posted by Texa

I got lucky and got my Nidhogg card on my clear of his normal mode trial, but the overall drop rates seem to be unnecessarily low. I've seen the unicolt drop more often in the Vault than the Charibert card, which I also don't have, even though I do that dungeon at least 4 times a week.

They could put some of the old boss cards on the battlehall npcs too, that'd give more reason to go there on top of the tournaments.

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Odds are with 4.0 this Summer all 3.0 cards will be made available for win off of NPC's, as all 2.0 cards were done when 3.0 dropped. So there will be a path to get those pesky cards that RNG failed to deliver.

But all the TT changes seem to be for the good. The death of Random for NCP's will probably be the biggest change and cause for many to rejoice. Though it never bothered me all that much.

Love these changes. Praise the Sun!!!!

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Originally Posted by Myriads

Odds are with 4.0 this Summer all 3.0 cards will be made available for win off of NPC's, as all 2.0 cards were done when 3.0 dropped. So there will be a path to get those pesky cards that RNG failed to deliver.

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Some of the boss cards from 2.0 are still dungeon drop only. From this list Fenrir, Kraken, Ferdiad, Manxone, and Vicegereant are still solely available from their respective 2.0 dungeons and I've never had any of those drop despite playing the game regularly for a year.

While those are boss cards are from 2.xx content, they were not added into the game until 3.2, which would explain why they aren't on NPC's quite yet. Fenrir seems to be ludicrously rare though...I've done Snowcloak at least a hundred times now since the card was added and never seen it :/

I have seen screenshots of people setting their hotbars up like that already, just guess those people were more creative with what they had to work with so don't see the new hotbar qol change that noteworthy.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

I have seen screenshots of people setting their hotbars up like that already, just guess those people were more creative with what they had to work with so don't see the new hotbar qol change that noteworthy.

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I set up my hotbars like that as well, but if anything, I DO want this feature, because it frees up my hotbars even more, since I no longer need to do things like, use an entire vertical hotbar, for just 1 ability to line up with my prior set. (and even then it doesnt line up well)

Now I can play with it, and get the most abilities, with the least hotbars used, AND set pet hotbar to something other than 21x1, which takes up way more space on my screen than id like (and i already have everything set to the smallest size possible, since im on a 768p screen, and its still too darn big.)

If no PvP chat means I don't have to deal with your "funny" commentary, then so it shall be.

To be fair, it would be more efficient to allow people to communicate with each other more easily in PvP but simply crack down on trash talking and poor sportsmanship.

The cynical part of me believes that the developers don't want that to happen, though, because it would cost money to hire people to investigate such things and if the players in question ended up getting banned then they'd be likely remove their subscriptions.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

To be fair, it would be more efficient to allow people to communicate with each other more easily in PvP but simply crack down on trash talking and poor sportsmanship.

The cynical part of me believes that the developers don't want that to happen, though, because it would cost money to hire people to investigate such things and if the players in question ended up getting banned then they'd be likely remove their subscriptions.

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And yet, I read that they opened up chat in FrontLines. Seems to me they only restrict it in the Feast. Which is a toxic wasteland the likes of which has never been seen.

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

Sounds like you're someone who needs to have their chat disabled.

Also, Lewena. Your time has come.

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Making an assumption based on a post. I am probably one of the nicer people you will see in pvp. I am not the type of guy that calls out others. I am also not the guy who yells or screams at other people for being useless. I never rocketed in science but I know for a fact that communication is an important part in pvp. Now they removed the possibility of people explaining others what to do if they are new. They removed direct communication. I am sorry but if you are failing to see the idiocy in removing this, then I am the one who is happy to not be teamed up with you but against you. /shrug

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

Also, Lewena. Your time has come.

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Highly doubt it. They said that new rule in place of random will be there. So instead they can just make like no 5* allowed. They can even limit to only lets say beast tribe cards or scion cards. It is guaranteed that she will still sneeze through your futile farm attempts.
What i realy want them is to expand the table to more then just 3x3, 5x5 would be hell of a fun. And you could only choose 5 cards for deck like now, other 8 cards would be randomly selected from your deck. That would make it more then just empty flowchart clicking as it is now.

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Originally Posted by gzuscry

Highly doubt it. They said that new rule in place of random will be there. So instead they can just make like no 5* allowed. They can even limit to only lets say beast tribe cards or scion cards. It is guaranteed that she will still sneeze through your futile farm attempts.
What i realy want them is to expand the table to more then just 3x3, 5x5 would be hell of a fun. And you could only choose 5 cards for deck like now, other 8 cards would be randomly selected from your deck. That would make it more then just empty flowchart clicking as it is now.

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They would just use existing rules like plus or fallen ace. No need to make more rules for the sake of artificial difficulty.

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Originally Posted by gzuscry

Highly doubt it. They said that new rule in place of random will be there. So instead they can just make like no 5* allowed. They can even limit to only lets say beast tribe cards or scion cards. It is guaranteed that she will still sneeze through your futile farm attempts.
What i realy want them is to expand the table to more then just 3x3, 5x5 would be hell of a fun. And you could only choose 5 cards for deck like now, other 8 cards would be randomly selected from your deck. That would make it more then just empty flowchart clicking as it is now.

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Then it wouldn't be Triple Triad anymore. Any changes you think would be good for the game are actually detrimental to it. Triple Triad is a fun minigame precisely because the matches are short. Expanding the field and/or having larger decks would unbalance things in such a way that it becomes a huge chore and waste of time in the end.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

And yet, I read that they opened up chat in FrontLines. Seems to me they only restrict it in the Feast. Which is a toxic wasteland the likes of which has never been seen.

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Competitive content sadly brings out the worst in a lot of people. There's various ways to mitigate that but...oh well.

Hopefully for this PvP based crossover event we don't actually have to win. That way having chat disabled won't have a major impact if you still walk away with the rewards even if you lose.

Able to summon a chocobo as a full party...god damn nice!

Are they doing the nerfs to umbrites with the patch? I read through the notes but I didn't see anything, but I could have skimmed past it.

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Originally Posted by Niraves

Are they doing the nerfs to umbrites with the patch? I read through the notes but I didn't see anything, but I could have skimmed past it.

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I think i've rode it only comes in 3.55. And 3.55 comes in february, and not in march ( only the second party of the mainquest line will Come there, and maybe with proto ultima :)

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Originally Posted by Lexia

I have seen screenshots of people setting their hotbars up like that already, just guess those people were more creative with what they had to work with so don't see the new hotbar qol change that noteworthy.

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Right now to get say a 6x6 square you have to use six of your hotbars placed in a specific position and only use 6 of the slots from each. Being able to do a 6x6 square with just one hotbar instead feels like a pretty noteworthy quality of life change.

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Originally Posted by Texa

Some of the boss cards from 2.0 are still dungeon drop only. From this list Fenrir, Kraken, Ferdiad, Manxone, and Vicegereant are still solely available from their respective 2.0 dungeons and I've never had any of those drop despite playing the game regularly for a year.

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These are indeed in 2.0 dungeons, but all of them were added in the 3.x cycles and some of them have truly crummy drop rates. Fenrir in specific took a lot of runs to show his face for me. I would guess that all of these will get shifted to NCP's with 4.0 also.

We'll see if it all happens in June. I was surprised when they did it for the 2.0 cards, so perhaps that was a one off. But with the older content getting quieter with the expansion, it seemed a reasonable design call to make the cards available via the second NPC path.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Can't fix something that work as intended.

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People have been complaining about expert roulette containing only 2 dungeons since 3.0. This issue has been brought up multiple times and nothing has been done about it until now. 1 year later.

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

It's not "all PvP". Just Feast only. They are actually opening all chat options(Linkshells, Free Company, and Novice Channel) for Frontline PvP. Which is a major improvement.

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That's good to hear at least. It's still mindblowing because Feast is the competitive pvp but whatever. Frontline is more fun anyway.

Am I the only one hopeful for a Flames of Rebirth music roll?

On the topic of triple triad. I believe the random rule will be replaced by the chaos rule on npc. Playing an npc today that had chaos in effect. The chaos rule didn't seem to apply to the npc. He had the leviathan card and in every single match, that card was always played at the ideal time.

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Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

Sucks that the paintings are relative to your Sightseeing log, seeing as my sightseeing log is EMPTY.

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Well the paintings are tradeable (buyable and sellable on the Market Board), so you've got alternatives. I'm sure the MB prices will be outrageous at launch, but you could also ask a friend who has their log completed.

Ah..finally Prey Online gonna get some buffed !
I've got 3 Ultima Plating since the first week of 3.0 and sit at that quantity until today...
Still,Its never be too late to get new glamour piece ! Looking forward to it.