Sooo.. What's the 5 hour maintenance for?

Anyone know?

patch 2.29

*runs*

Probably and hopefully fixing the massive latency issues.

Hopefully to make rain more in camp drybone so we can do the rest of the sightseeing log.

Probably to fix all the latency and lag issues from yesterday. Botany was soooo painful..

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Hopefully to make rain more in camp drybone so we can do the rest of the sightseeing log.

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Kind of amusing that I was reading about no rain there on reddit, then i teleported there to do botany and it rained multiple times xD

Patch to make an Atma (possibly) drop from Odin or Behemoth.
The Atma is named Atma of the Gungnir/Zantestuken.
If you get this Atma, you don't need to get any other Atma to upgrade your weapon.

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Originally Posted by ZyloSladek

Patch to make an Atma (possibly) drop from Odin or Behemoth.
The Atma is named Atma of the Gungnir/Zantestuken.
If you get this Atma, you don't need to get any other Atma to upgrade your weapon.

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Cute, but many have already confirmed that atmas already drop from Odin, as it can be in a valid zone.

Probably to fix the drop rate on the Alexandrites from FATEs.

I hope they will fix the new "search into your retainers" feature who only returns normal items and ignore HQ.

Obviously it's to patch in the new classes/jobs as they are announced the same day.

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Originally Posted by AiChyan

Kind of amusing that I was reading about no rain there on reddit, then i teleported there to do botany and it rained multiple times xD

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Yeaaaah...rain is pretty normal there, except it has to happen at the 4pm time change and you only have between 5 and 6 to get the vista...

They just mentioned that it's server maintenance, there's no mention anywhere of a patch to download (which is usually stated in such notices if included). So it's likely just to fix the connection issues people have been having over the last few days.

I'm thinking it's an emergency maintenence to fix the latency issues across the worlds. But, they could also do the 2.28 hotfixes as well if they had the patches ready for those. Lag, is probably the safer thing to bet on being fixed... LOL

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Hopefully to make rain more in camp drybone so we can do the rest of the sightseeing log.

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you'll be excited about the 60 new sights, atleast one of them requires odin weather :D'

Judging from that the fact that it says "server maintenance" I am inclined to say (and am hoping) that it is to fix the 90k & 2002 issues (among others). Hopefully. I was 90k'd during a Praetorium roulette and when I got back, it wasn't displaying any ground effects, not even targeting recticles that show at the base of PCs & NPCs. Needless to say, doing Prae from Nero onwards was an interesting challenge when I wasn't able to see things like plumes, voids, the electrical bad stuff surrounding the edge of Nero.

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Originally Posted by Ragecake

Probably to fix the drop rate on the Alexandrites from FATEs.

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Drop rate is fine. It shouldnt drop often from FATE.

See it as you need 75 days to get the Novus, and you get it one day sooner each time you get an alexandrite via FATE.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

you'll be excited about the 60 new sights, atleast one of them requires odin weather :D'

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I'm simultaneously laughing and crying

that is so beautifully evil if true

They might also be fixing the hotbar bugs introduced in 2.28

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

you'll be excited about the 60 new sights, atleast one of them requires odin weather :D'

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Since number 32 can't be completed yet because of a bug Odin weather will not be a problem ^^.

I'll venture a guess and say 018 sightseeing has been gated waiting for this ninja patch.

GAHHH!!! 5 HOURS WTF?!?!?!


oh... middle of the night... carry on.

Its funny, I called this maintence. Had this feeling. 3 of us in my FC kept getting 9k and lagging like crazy. I experienced the same thing. Got 9k'd twice in the afternoon. Was lagging just running around the open world. You know when your fighting something and they like skip across your screen, was seeing that to. I had a feeling it was pretty wide spread, and not just me. Looks like I was right ^^

just the other day I experienced something others have mentioned for the first time. I was doing brayflox normal. Was on the final fight with the dragon. During the fight I could not see anything on the ground. The poison he spits out was completely invisible. I just stood in a puddle until someone yelled at me in chat to move. At that point I noticed it and ended up just stacking on someone else and just follow them around the room. Also after we beat it that teleport out crystal was invisible to. Just say its name floating in the air. Plus as a blm trying to LB, my aoe indicator did not appear on the ground, all I saw was a little arrow.

Hopefully I wont see that again.

It's obviously to restore the lights to the Cragsoul lamps, duh.

for sure for latency.
It was so bad yesterday half the time i could not see were my mana was at after casting spells,
and some spells did not seem to go off either

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Originally Posted by Ragecake

Probably to fix the drop rate on the Alexandrites from FATEs.

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It can drop from fates? if so which ones?

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

It can drop from fates? if so which ones?

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All of them. :)

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

It can drop from fates? if so which ones?

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Drop rate seems worse than atma though, I did like 150 fates in coerthas and got my first today

[Current Known Issues]
■An issue wherein monsters appear in an area where they cannot be fought when trying to progress the Peisteskin Treasure Map treasure hunt in Upper La Noscea .
*After deciphering the Timeworn Peisteskin Map, if the indicated area on the Peisteskin Treasure Map is Upper La Noscea, please refrain from using the Dig action and wait until after the issue has been resolved to progress the hunt.
■An issue wherein using Repair will occasionally render the player unable to take any action besides basic movement.
■An issue with Grand Company supply missions wherein HQ gear or gear with affixed materia cannot be delivered.
■An issue wherein Exploration Log entry #032 cannot be completed.
■An issue wherein the potential of the following materia affixed to fishing gear will reset to 0.
Gatherer’s Guile / Gatherer’s Guerdon / Gatherer’s Grasp / Craftsman’s Competence / Craftsman’s Cunning / Craftsman’s Command
■An issue wherein certain gear sets may cause actions to not be properly registered to the hotbar or cross hotbar.
* If you should encounter this error, please try switching to another gear set, as this will return things to normal.

They gonna mess with Materia market again

Oh good, they're fixing the mixed hotbar issue. That was fun doing a fate with my DRG and getting told flash is not available.

They just realized that they accidentally shrunk the Odin statue.

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Anyone know?

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People have found out where ATMA is hidden, and now they need new hiding places, I suppose :-P

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GAHHH!!! 5 HOURS WTF?!?!?! oh... middle of the night... carry on.

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Or, as we old-worldy Europeans would call it, the morning.

Hotfixes.

And connectivity things they'll never openly admit they have issues with ;D

"Odin weather"

I was really excited when Odin popped last - since the new patch added the actual description for the current weather conditions. I wasn't disappointed - Odin weather is "Hopelessness"

And farming 800 myth so if you're lucky you can get 3 or more a day and it'll take 18 days-20 days.
Edit: Crap I forgot to quote who I was talking to...

Maybe it's a....

Thuper thecwet thupwize event that coincides with E3....

Or they could be fixing things XD

Maintenance that starts two hours before reset is some kind of "special" timing alright. Considering everything else that I manage to ignore and just get on with playing the game, I'm surprised that it came to this to prompt me to post in the forums.

I hope something about the lag and 90k me and other folks have been getting the last couple of days.

I'm hopping they are going to fix the automatic tell log clear for when you blacklist someone. It was included in the 2.28 patch notes but didn't seem to work when I tried it on an RMT. I'm hoping this maintenance will fix it.

I think it's a brilliant idea. It makes tell spam a lot less desirable for RMTs as a form of advertising. Bravo, Square Enix. ^^