A little disappointed that what looks to be the DRK mount is just reskin of the Coeurl mount, I was expecting a Panther when I saw DRK's PvP armour, but ah well. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
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A little disappointed that what looks to be the DRK mount is just reskin of the Coeurl mount, I was expecting a Panther when I saw DRK's PvP armour, but ah well. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
No. The experience distribution has been shifted - EXP on normal mobs has been reduced, and that missing EXP has been put on the bosses.
This is specifically because starting around Cutter's Cry, the fastest ways to get EXP were just to slam the first room over and over, and the devs aren't fond of that (Like they weren't fond of people dropping Brayflox Hard after the second boss because of where tomestones were being distributed)
I think they're also concerned that if you can just pick whatever L50 dungeon you want for EXP, people will zerg to one or two specific dungeons to level and people seeking to do other dungeons will be screwed over; hence why you're incentivized to Roulette them (so that the game's going to attempt to match you with any players who haven't done them yet)
Well, to be fair, the PvP armor is just a reskin as well... They could call the black Coeurl a panther still, just like they're going to call the reskinned Lionliege armor Pantherliege. Heck, Warrior is really the only one that won out on the Job mounts, Paladin just got a one-headed Chimera reskin.
One thing that disturbs me is that they added "Weathered Arondight" to the tome exchange NPC. Presumably an ilvl100 weapon for DRK.
The upgraded version should be Arondight.
Arondight, ladies and gentleman, is Lancelot's legendary sword from the Arthurian legend.
It's a name worthy of a relic, not some random placeholder weapon.
That's the thing with the Sol weapons though, they're all actually "legendary" in their own right. Not from a gameplay perspective, of course, but I think all of them take their name from some significant piece of lore. Certainly a good few of them share a name with Mythic weapons from Final Fantasy XI. Only exception I can think of is the SCH/SMN books.
I'll agree that they've been a tad wasteful with weapon names though... Tupsimati belonged to old Lou, the Grand Company leaders own various other "classic" relics as well (Death Penalty and Annihilator, Claustrum, and I believe they gave Raubahn Tizona), then there is the Primal Focus weapons which were meant to be throwbacks to the Final Fantasy III legendary weapons IIRC. Really have to wonder what they're going to name the new ones coming up in 3.1...