3.07 Patch notes are up.

3.07 Patch Notes.

Those are some pretty big buffs for AST and MNK. I'm curious as to why they decided to give the 20% TP cost reduction on Blood Weapon since most complaints are about Darkness.

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Originally Posted by Eul

Okay so when SCH's Galvanize and AST's Nocturnal get fix? I kinda hate this pair because each mitigate skill overwrite each other even one gets critical :mad:

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Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

3.07 Patch Notes.

Those are some pretty big buffs for AST and MNK. I'm curious as to why they decided to give the 20% TP cost reduction on Blood Weapon since most complaints are about Darkness.

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The same motive they give the AST lightspeed mp cost reduction, you burn more under the effect of the skill.

That's it for drk adjustments? That like barely anything. I run out of tp while MTing too not just OTing. So how does that help my tp in grit mode when I can't use blood weapon? And when your OT in a fight were having grit on for almost all of the fight is necessary it's stupid annoying to keep mp up when nothing is attacking you long enough to regain mp so all you can Use to recover mp is syphon strike and carve and spit.

There's a lot of things that could be adjusted to improve dark knight and adjusting one move that only works in one stance is nothing.

How about reducing the cost of dark arts? Or making dark dance last a bit longer? Or making dark passenger actually useful when buffed so that it doesn't make it harder for you to get hit so you don't regain mp? Or maybe change how reprisal works so we can keep the debuff up all the time instead of a random parry?

Tornado kick is still nearly worthless, but I guess I see it being used between trash mobs.

Finally Bard are fun again, they can move and shoot again with minuet on, i am fine with that cast time.

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Originally Posted by Kaliec

Finally Bard are fun again, they can move and shoot again with minuet on, i am fine with that cast time.

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There were...no bard adjustments in this patch?
Am I just not reading something properly? It is late after all

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Originally Posted by Eul

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Diurnal Sect.
As for the buffs overwriting each other, it seems to be intentional to prevent shield stacking.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

There were...no bard adjustments in this patch?
Am I just not reading something properly? It is late after all

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He's probably misreading the bugfix section where you were still forced to cast if you'd just toggled gauss/minuet off.

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

He's probably misreading the bugfix section where you were still forced to cast if you'd just toggled gauss/minuet off.

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OH okay. That never happened to me soooo
but yeah that's pretty bad..glad it's fixed now.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

There were...no bard adjustments in this patch?
Am I just not reading something properly? It is late after all

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No...your right. There isn't a single thing in those patch notes about BRD.
MCH maybe, but no idea what Kaliec is on about.

Edit: Ah, that is what they meant. xD

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Originally Posted by AdamFyi

Diurnal Sect.
As for the buffs overwriting each other, it seems to be intentional to prevent shield stacking.

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It's Nocturnal, Diurnal is regen skill right?

But... you know, I had Critical Adloquium (Let's say it gives 3000!, so you get 6000 HP mitigation). But when AST cast Aspected Helios and gives 900, it overwrites the current critical Adloquium. Isn't it really annoying when you're gonna Deployment Tactic but galvanize effect is gone because AST's mitigation skill?

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Originally Posted by Eul

It's Nocturnal, Diurnal is regen skill right?

But... you know, I had Critical Adloquium (Let's say it gives 3000!, so you get 6000 HP mitigation). But when AST cast Aspected Helios and gives 900, it overwrites the current critical Adloquium. Isn't it really annoying when you're gonna Deployment Tactic but galvanize effect is gone because AST's mitigation skill?

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That's why you're not supposed to be in nocturnal if you have a scholar in your party.

Now you can stop asking me to Goad you.
I can see your TP % now. I know when to Goad you!

- Ninja's everywhere.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

That's why you're not supposed to be in nocturnal if you have a scholar in your party.

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And it won't happen if you're in Frontline. Many AST prefer using Nocturnal even there's SCH in their party.

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Originally Posted by Eul

It's Nocturnal, Diurnal is regen skill right?

But... you know, I had Critical Adloquium (Let's say it gives 3000!, so you get 6000 HP mitigation). But when AST cast Aspected Helios and gives 900, it overwrites the current critical Adloquium. Isn't it really annoying when you're gonna Deployment Tactic but galvanize effect is gone because AST's mitigation skill?

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Ahaha I was healing with a scholar in a t13 earlier. Did nocturnal aoe and the sch did adlo and deployment? and it did absolutely nothing. Chuckled.

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Originally Posted by Kaliec

Finally Bard are fun again, they can move and shoot again with minuet on, i am fine with that cast time.

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As well as the two seconds you can move, you can also move once the ws animation has started without the effect cancelling. Found this by chance.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

There were...no bard adjustments in this patch?
Am I just not reading something properly? It is late after all

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here is info: Resolved Issues
An issue wherein weaponskills used immediately after removing the bard effect “The Wanderer’s Minuet” or the machinist effect “Gauss Barrel” would have a cast time and become uninterruptable when moving.

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Originally Posted by Eul

It's Nocturnal, Diurnal is regen skill right?

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You mentioned something about hating the SCH and Nocturnal Sect AST because their shields couldn't stack. Diurnal Sect exists for a reason.

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Originally Posted by Eul

Isn't it really annoying when you're gonna Deployment Tactic but galvanize effect is gone because AST's mitigation skill?

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Then have the AST switch to Diurnal Sect..? The shields don't stack probably for the same reasons they nerfed WHM's 18% Stoneskin.

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But, I digress. I like the changes so far. I'll reserve my judgement once maintenance is over.

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Originally Posted by DragonSlayer45

Now you can stop asking me to Goad you.
I can see your TP % now. I know when to Goad you!

- Ninja's everywhere.

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"What's Goad?" - most NINs I've encountered

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Originally Posted by AdamFyi

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Okay I forgot to mention this is case in frontline (I know AST should use Diurnal when have pair with SCH in raid).

Omg favors get fixed.
Thank god there is less stupid now in this grind.
300% increase on favor node spawns.
Yes yes yes yes 1000x yes.
No more 11hrs gathering favors :3

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Originally Posted by Eul

And it won't happen if you're in Frontline. Many AST prefer using Nocturnal even there's SCH in their party.

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Then does it matter? I mean, it's frontline.

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Originally Posted by Eul

Okay I forgot to mention this is case in frontline (I know AST should use Diurnal when have pair with SCH in raid).

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Again, it's probably to prevent shield stacking for balance reasons.

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Originally Posted by Phireblast

Tornado kick is still nearly worthless, but I guess I see it being used between trash mobs.

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What? Sure you can't spam it but to say it's nearly worthless is exaggerating. Saying that like it's almost as bad as Haymaker

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Originally Posted by Daralii

Then does it matter? I mean, it's frontline.

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It DOES matter for me (I don't know for the other), so I don't need to cast another Adlo to people again.

And yeah, it's frontline. You'll die tho if you careless, I know :/

EDIT: Then SCH become useless, the only skill that useful is only Lustrate and Indomitability. Why should become SCH then if the Nocturnal wins anything?

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Originally Posted by Yumi_umi

Omg favors get fixed.
Thank god there is less stupid now in this grind.
300% increase on favor node spawns.
Yes yes yes yes 1000x yes.
No more 11hrs gathering favors :3

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basically you wont get more favor items per favor, its just less time consuming to get your 1-3 per favor

I'm really looking forward to logging back in and leveling AST again!

Man oh man, those AST buffs and tweaks are EXACTLY what I was hoping for. Card buffs.... Mmmm.


And Eul, I'll take that note and be sure to go Diurnal with a Scholar as removing a crit Adlo sounds AWFUL.

These MNK changes are sexy

It's funny how they made it so Nocturnal's shield is a higher priority than a sch's shield.

Heck, they've obviously shown that it is possible for a weaker shield to be "denied" in place of a stronger one ever since SCH was introduced.

It's really more of an oversight that the devs have not fixed this issue yet.

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Originally Posted by Ametrine

And Eul, I'll take that note and be sure to go Diurnal with a Scholar as removing a crit Adlo sounds AWFUL.

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If you found in your party an AST that still use Nocturnal even there's SCH inside, beware my children, beware! :p

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Originally Posted by OPneedNerfs

It's funny how they made it so Nocturnal's shield is a higher priority than a sch's shield.

Heck, they've obviously shown that it is possible for a weaker shield to be "denied" in place of a stronger one ever since SCH was introduced.

It's really more of an oversight that the devs have not fixed this issue yet.

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AST's Nocturnal Field has the same priority as a SCH's Galvanize. It depends on which was cast last. If the SCH casts Adloquium after Aspected Benefic, the Galvanize will overwrite Nocturnal Field.

Same concept with Fey Glow/Fey Light from 2.0.

AST shield potency is better than Adlo if it doesn't crit
AST nocturnal helios is better than Succor.

The Astro buff is nice! ;D

The Dark Knight is more lame...disappointing <.<;

(and boo... Bard/Mechs still has black mage switch -.-)

Im playing Dark Knight AND Paladin (Both lv60 and I did many dungeons)

In my opinion:

Paladin is way easyer to handle - more dmg reducing buffs, more control of stunning/blind enemys, you have a shield to block atks, you dont stare at your MP bar, Paladin has no wide annoying Aura, no useless skills like "Walking death" <.<, a very good heal spell, can use stoneskin/Protect from whm

What I dont like on Dark Knight:
That Dark Aura, that is more like for a berserker class during a rage buff <.< It DONT Suit to dark knight!
I always stare at my MP bar to have it at a certain % for 1 atk (1 combo atk/spell needs around 70% of your MP...)
Only a few dmg reducing skills(one is: weak reducing spell dmg, but most enemys dont atk with magic)
Important Combo skills need way to much MP - annyoing!


Edit: Why Dark Knight got TP adjustment...? Like it was a problem for a jobclass that mainly needs MP!! <,<;

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Originally Posted by AlphaSonic

AST shield potency is better than Adlo if it doesn't crit
AST nocturnal helios is better than Succor.

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Succor's potency is same with Nocturnal Helios with current patch.

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Originally Posted by Kaliec

here is info: Resolved Issues
An issue wherein weaponskills used immediately after removing the bard effect “The Wanderer’s Minuet” or the machinist effect “Gauss Barrel” would have a cast time and become uninterruptable when moving.

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Sorry pal, you still can't run around and shoot with minuet on (apart from the normal 1.5s-ish leeway between casts). That bugfix is specifically for when you turn off gauss/minuet and immediately initiate a weaponskill (which would have a cast time under gauss/minuet), but still forces you to cast it (which it isn't supposed to, since the buff is turned off) and you can't even interrupt it so you've basically completely lost that GCD if you were on the move and expecting an instant cast.

Hopefully it's fixed. It was irritating F:

A buncha happy AST's and Mnks I see in these notes, grats, looks good. Longer card buffs, and better ones.

BoTD duration buff please SE :p
so jealous at that GL duration buff :eek:

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Originally Posted by Eul

Succor's potency is same with Nocturnal Helios with current patch.

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No, Nocturnal 5% potency bonus makes them more powerful