2.2.5 Patch Notes Up

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...b45897e3a016cf

No individual housing still. :<

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Originally Posted by Keeroh

No individual housing still. :<

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that will arrive in a big patch like 2.3 or 2.4
this is just a mini update
basically:
PVP update and a bit of coil.

Patch 2.25 will introduce new ranks and rewards to the Wolves' Den, the next phase of the Echo in the Binding Coil of Bahamut, and much more.

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Originally Posted by Keeroh

Aw, well it's good to see so many bug fixes packed into the patch.

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i agree. but i wish they added mroe QoL stuff.
like the stupid taking to ppl on a chocobo...i mean come on...on df chocobo.
pvp looks like a joke here no offense and they didnt do much to help it at all.
oh well. :)

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I Got a Good Materia Obtain a high-grade materia through transmutation.

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No explanation of what transmutation will actually yield, but interesting.

Materia transmutation is the only real interesting thing in the whole patch. ; . ;

Dyable DL. Doesn't change that HDL looks like shit, but it's a start. NOW WHAT ABOUT MY AF?!?

Completely underwhelming.

new pvp ranks and gear, no new battles

coil 15% buff echo

materia transmutation (change what type it is? wasnt explained)

That was the big stuff i took from the notes.

"major pvp patch"

+10 ranks of PvP, cool armor, but absolutely no changes to the poorly implemented PvP. Good job, SE.

Wow, what epic fail on the PvP. 2.25 is supposed to increase PvP participation, presumably by reducing gear gaps and adding incentive for newer PvP players...

... and instead literally the only change is to make the gap even larger.

They really have no idea what they are doing. PvP is doomed to continue to fail horribly in this game, and I say this as a fairly hardcore PvP player in other games.

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Originally Posted by Volsung

new pvp ranks and gear, no new battles

coil 15% buff echo

materia transmutation (change what type it is? wasnt explained)

That was the big stuff i took from the notes.

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The shields' tidal forms now drops from levi ex.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...88#post2056988

It always seems they throw out stuff urgently, hastily, and unchecked.
Patch notes full of fail; materia transmutation was not explained at all.

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Originally Posted by chococo

It always seems they throw out stuff urgently, hastily, and unchecked.
Patch notes full of fail; materia transmutation was not explained at all.

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Patch notes are meant to inform, not to spoon feed you with everything.

Believe the materia thing is changing from one type to another.

Probably a chance to transform the useless elemental materia to more useful one, and possible higher tier.

It's weird that they changed so little in what we all knew would be a tiny patch!

Wait... no it's not.

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Originally Posted by chococo

Patch notes full of fail; materia transmutation was not explained at all.

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If only there were some sort of quest you could access in a matter of hours that would explain the system...

But shucks I guess we'll just never know how it works and will just have to abandon all hope of ever using it.

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

It's weird that they changed so little in what we all knew would be a tiny patch!

Wait... no it's not.

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It was advertised as a "major PvP patch" though :(

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Originally Posted by Silvahn

Patch notes are meant to inform, not to spoon feed you with everything.

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Entitlement my friend. That sort of reason doesn't work anymore.

Actually its explained in the french version. Its combining 5 materia to get a higher one

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Treasure maps and Trials of the Braves books can now be viewed while mounted.

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Epic win. This was the bane of my current existence.

Hmmmm no mention of Atma/Animus, yet they have delayed the next step until 2.28 because of something in the questline.... fishy, fishy.....

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Originally Posted by KamikazeMan

"major pvp patch"

+10 ranks of PvP, cool armor, but absolutely no changes to the poorly implemented PvP. Good job, SE.

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Yeah, seriously. What's the point of even adding new gear/ranks when people simply don't want to play it? How long can you grind deathmatches until you get tired? They could have added a couple of new match types like capture points, king of the hill, etc. Or if they are so lazy, they could have *at least* added a 8v8 deathmatch to make some people come back. But nope, it's another typical "please stay tuned for our next patch" patch.

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Originally Posted by C-croft

Hmmmm no mention of Atma/Animus, yet they have delayed the next step until 2.28 because of something in the questline.... fishy, fishy.....

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they probably did change drop rates but hard to say seeing as we wont know til we logged in seeing as they never give % of drop rates.

I must've missed the "major PVP patch" bit. Source on that?

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

Yeah, seriously. What's the point of even adding new gear/ranks when people simply don't want to play it? How long can you grind deathmatches until you get tired? They could have added a couple of new match types like capture points, king of the hill, etc. Or if they are so lazy, they could have *at least* added a 8v8 deathmatch to make some people come back. But nope, it's another typical "please stay tuned for our next patch" patch.

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new match types wont be added til major patches if they do like for example they will be adding the frontlines pvp in 2.3

The color of the following item icons has been changed to improve visibility: ( Atma Stones )

I just have to laugh at this one. With all the complains, Yoshi P reply is that you guys not zoom in enough to see your Atma Stone dropping, so he changed the color to make it more visible.

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Originally Posted by Silvahn

Patch notes are meant to inform, not to spoon feed you with everything.

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Then they might as well remove all the stuff explained in patch 2.2 notes cos that's all spoon feed?

Point is that's not the way it was intended for SE to not inform.

Stupid people are stupid with stupid comments.

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Originally Posted by kiraan

Actually its explained in the french version. Its combining 5 materia to get a higher one

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^ This. {Please check it}.

I'd be more excited for the PvP update if they tweaked position updating a bit more. I have a good connection and can dodge everything in PvE reliably, but I still fail to pillar sleep or bard arrows? I've seen bards shoot through walls 1-2 times after someone runs behind them and I know it's all due to lack of position updating... I do like that they've added matchmaking as of 2.2, although I haven't tried it since before that patch.

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Originally Posted by kaya_suzumiya

they probably did change drop rates but hard to say seeing as we wont know til we logged in seeing as they never give % of drop rates.

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No, if they did change the drop rates they would have mentioned it in the patch notes, but i have seen them do ninja patches so cant say. Chances are though they didn't change the drop rate because they know a large amount want it to be changed and not putting it in the patch notes is just stupid, seems the change will be coming in 2.28 sadly.

Crossing my fingers that the "NINJA NERF" for ATMA drops rates is in there somewhere and they just did not want to say it and piss people off. The people that already have there's don't need to know about it........LOL!!!!!!!!

I'm freakin' pumped. I've been waiting for them to add that sweet animal themed PvP gear for aaages. +dyeable DL and some QoL changes. Good patch for me personally. Too bad about the animus quest though.

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

I must've missed the "major PVP patch" bit. Source on that?

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I'm trying to find you the transcript, but it's from Live Letter XIII;

A matching system will be implemented so high rank players don't get matched with low rank
2.25 will be a big patch for PVP
The animal series will be implemented in 2.25
2.25 is going to have a massive PVP update
Frontlines will be coming in 2.3
Frontlines rules are still being worked on, please look forward to it!

Source: the relevant Reddit thread, for now...

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Originally Posted by chococo

Then they might as well remove all the stuff explained in patch 2.2 notes cos that's all spoon feed?

Point is that's not the way it was intended for SE to not inform.

Stupid people are stupid with stupid comments.



^ This. {Please check it}.

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it will only took what a few seconds to understand what a transmutation means...
in case it took you longer than that.. try google :)

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Originally Posted by kaya_suzumiya

they probably did change drop rates but hard to say seeing as we wont know til we logged in seeing as they never give % of drop rates.

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I don't expect them to disclose drop rates, and regardless of my support for or against nerfing Atma/Animus quest, I tend to respect transparency. There are those who have ground their 13500 myth and would like to continue along their questline and should be able to. There is an apparent 'difficulty' to the current quests that prompted them to hold back the Novus questline, but rather than fix, they are going to let it be... Something isn't being said, and the fact that they think we won't notice is ridiculous. It's like 2.0 WAR all over again.

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Originally Posted by chococo

Then they might as well remove all the stuff explained in patch 2.2 notes cos that's all spoon feed?

Point is that's not the way it was intended for SE to not inform.

Stupid people are stupid with stupid comments.



^ This. {Please check it}.

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Yeah, the NA team is particularly 'bad' about patch notes I noticed. Seem to have a tendency to leave things out.

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Originally Posted by Silvahn

it will only took what a few seconds to understand what a transmutation means...
in case it took you longer than that.. try google :)

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yep, bring on the even dumber responses.

Googling transmutation will tell me 5 materias. Sureeee. Not 4? not 3? but 5? yea. Google power. Google reads SE's mind.

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Originally Posted by kaya_suzumiya

they probably did change drop rates but hard to say seeing as we wont know til we logged in seeing as they never give % of drop rates.

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its possible since yoshida did mention that very few have completed animus yet... we will just have to wait and see

Artisan's Spectacles now wearable on all classes `v` #bestpatch

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Originally Posted by Remus

No, if they did change the drop rates they would have mentioned it in the patch notes, but i have seen them do ninja patches so cant say. Chances are though they didn't change the drop rate because they know a large amount want it to be changed and not putting it in the patch notes is just stupid, seems the change will be coming in 2.28 sadly.

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Not all changes are documented in the patch notes. They often ninja nerf things.