Patch notes are up

Well these are the most boring notes we've had since HW.
Really disappointed in no Job balances... I hope the DF is...
you get the boot, but are not able to join the SAME party you were in.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

I really don't get this doom and gloom over the new kick adjustment (then again ANY change is doom and gloom around here), but people fail to realize that anyone who starts a vote kick can't make another one in another 4 hours. Do you really think a troll is going to waste their 4 hour grace period just to kick one person for giggles?

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Since when?
I started a Vote kick, and did it again minutes later because we had 2 afk's in Alex for like 10mins.

The DF change makes it so that you can't queue in progress after being kicked, but you can still immediately queue.

In case anyone was wondering

I really don't get this doom and gloom over the new kick adjustment (then again ANY change is doom and gloom around here), but people fail to realize that anyone who starts a vote kick can't make another one in another 4 hours. Do you really think a troll is going to waste their 4 hour grace period just to kick one person for giggles?

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Originally Posted by Talia_Hailwind

FYI I got kicked as healer the other day when the tank sprinted ahead and got himself killed when I was equipping loot.

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While i would not kick you, your first priority as a healer is always keeping everyone alive.
Yes, that means running after crazy tanks before equipping loot.

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

Wow this is a big hot fix.

"The Duty Finder has been adjusted so that players who have been vote-dismissed are not immediately available as candidates for joining a party."

Neat. XD Folks have been waiting for that.

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I am withholding judgement until I see how it's implemented. It's important to balance this - there are trolls both ways. My nearly 63 year old father in law gets kicked from groups because he has a difficult time with mechanics in 4 mans, and this (if implemented poorly) would kill the game for him.

I've only been dismissed once that I felt was unfair. Those players were then reported.

Other than that I have kicked people on several occasions for attacking other players personalities and all together being turds. Only to have them pop up in my instance three more times and waste 8 more minutes of everyone's time cussing at people.

I've never kicked anyone for lack of skill or knowledge though. Those people should be taught and directed... not ignored. I'm so excited that this is in place now.

It sounds like it just prevents people from joining in-progress. That's perfect.

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Originally Posted by Ashelia_Ferron

The DF change makes it so that you can't queue in progress after being kicked, but you can still immediately queue.

In case anyone was wondering

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Do you know how long is the "in-progress lock"?

So, what are these adjustments to the newest maps? I hate when SE says "has been adjusted" instead of just being totally upfront and telling us they increased or decreased the drop rate.

I noticed I got a lot of HQ stuff from maps, so I'm guess SE just lowered the HQ rate on them.