Astrologian Royal Road tooltip

The tooltip for the Royal Road buffs read as

"Duration of the next card drawn is extended"
"Potency of the card drawn is enhanced"
"Adds area of effect to the next card drawn"

Which isn't correct, as a card drawn under Royal Road which is subsequently Spread will not be applied with a bolstered effect at a later time should the aforementioned Royal Road buff be removed or consumed with another card and no new Royal Road effect be gained before the held card's usage.

The Japanese tooltip reads as

"次に発動するカードの効果..."

Which unless I'm mistaken means that the next card invoked or put into effect becomes augmented through whatever Royal Road buff is active.

Thank you for your feedback! After some discussion, we've decided to revise this to "the next card played" for applicable tooltips. You should see revised text come 3.06. If there are any other tooltips that you happen to find confusing, please don't hesitate to let us know!

Provoke... so many new tanks believe that using provoke on an initial pull gives them a huge amount of emnity that dps cant pull off them.. only to get angry that the healer or dps gets threat a second later....

After discussion, we've decided to revise Provoke's tooltip to "Gesture threateningly, placing yourself at the top of a target's enmity list." Whether or not people will take note of the change and alter their behavior accordingly, well...

Nice...that easy to get a tooltip reworked...thanks for listening...we love that you listen and take action.

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Originally Posted by Corvinoobus

After discussion, we've decided to revise Provoke's tooltip to "Gesture threateningly, placing yourself at the top of a target's enmity list." Whether or not people will take note of the change and alter their behavior accordingly, well...

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I would suggest this: "Gesture threateningly, placing yourself at the top of a target's enmity list at that instant."

While talking tooltips...

How about clarifying Barrage? More like, "your next single target weaponskill will strike the target two/three times, but be unable to critically strike"?

Woah...

I made a thread about this ages ago.. never thought an off the cuff comment here would actually get a response. Good Work Corvinoobus!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-for-new-tanks

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Originally Posted by Mayoyama

Maybe rewording it as:

Gestures threateningly, drawing the attention of the/an enemy away from another player

That gives the idea moreso that it should be used to pull an enemy off another person rather than as an initial threat generator on a pull

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Originally Posted by Mayoyama

Provoke... so many new tanks believe that using provoke on an initial pull gives them a huge amount of emnity that dps cant pull off them.. only to get angry that the healer or dps gets threat a second later....

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That might not always be the case. I often pull with provoke because of it's huge (for a melee class) 25y range (by comparison, Shield Lob is 15y), instant cast, off-gdc effect. Extremely useful if you want to let a mob group get closer safely, pick individual patrol mobs alone, or if you need to pull two groups at once.
Of course, that doesn't detract from the text being very misleading, and I can only welcome the change. Just know that not every tank that uses provoke to pull doesn't know what they're doing :)

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Originally Posted by Zfz

I would suggest this: "Gesture threateningly, placing yourself at the top of a target's enmity list at that instant."

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That would sound like it's temporary, like old taunts used to work.

Clarify Leylines: Upon activation become the target of all AoEs.

Archer trait Enhanced Barrage still says "Increases number of strikes per auto-attack to three." but no longer affects auto-attacks.

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Originally Posted by Corvinoobus

Thank you for your feedback! After some discussion, we've decided to revise this to "the next card played" for applicable tooltips. You should see revised text come 3.06. If there are any other tooltips that you happen to find confusing, please don't hesitate to let us know!

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Wouldn't "the next card read" be more appropriate? So it matches up with the description of draw? "Recast timer cooldown will begin once the drawn card is read, or the draw timer expires."

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

While talking tooltips...

How about clarifying Barrage? More like, "your next single target weapon skill will strike the target two/three times, but be unable to critically strike"?

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I very much agree that the Barrage description should be changed to something like the above. When I first read the original tool tip, I thought "Multiplies a single target weapon skill strike by 3" meant any single target weapon skill used during it's 10s duration, not just the first. Left me wondering "why is it wearing off so fast?"

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Originally Posted by Wilan

That might not always be the case. I often pull with provoke because of it's huge (for a melee class) 25y range (by comparison, Shield Lob is 15y), instant cast, off-gdc effect. Extremely useful if you want to let a mob group get closer safely, pick individual patrol mobs alone, or if you need to pull two groups at once.
Of course, that doesn't detract from the text being very misleading, and I can only welcome the change. Just know that not every tank that uses provoke to pull doesn't know what they're doing :)

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Oh, I am well aware that provoke can be used correctly due to range (I even used this back when WP speed runs was a thing to grab the tomberries next to the door leading to 2nd boss), but there are many tanks, in levellng dungeons particularly, who use it within shield lob distance simply because they dont understand that using shield lob actually generates proper threat while pulling with provoke only really grabs an enemies attention and does almost nothing for your threat on a pull, and should generally be saved in case dps/healer pulls the enemy off you (group pulls in dungeons)