Preliminary patch notes are up

And wow are they long this time.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c97104f8e7308e

Shield Swipe Is now an ability and does not trigger global cooldown.
Recast time has been adjusted to 15 seconds.
Potency has been reduced from 210 to 150.


This is a buff or a nerf?

"Ahriman / Bomb Palanquin / Logistics System / Kirin / Magitek Armor / Gilded Magitek Armor / Draught Chocobo / Ceremony Chocobo / Amber Draught Chocobo"

someday my other primal ponies will be rele-

"[2.0] It is now possible to ride mounts other than the personal chocobo while your companion is summoned.
* Riding a mount will not dismiss your companion."

HOLY SHIT

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[2.0] Items that dropped directly from boss enemies will now drop from treasure boxes in the following duties:
The Bowl of Embers (Extreme) / The Howling Eye (Extreme) / The Navel (Extreme) / Thornmarch (Extreme) / The Whorleater (Extreme) / The Striking Tree (Extreme) / Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)

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Maybe the primal weapons won't be so expensive now? :D

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[2.0] The tradable version of the following dyes has been added:
Pure White Dye / Jet Black Dye / Metallic Silver Dye / Metallic Gold Dye / Pastel Pink Dye / Pastel Green Dye / Pastel Blue Dye / Pastel Purple Dye / Metallic Red Dye / Metallic Green Dye / Metallic Blue Dye
* The new, tradable version will have a different name.

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=O

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[2.0] To accommodate various connection speeds and latencies, the ninja abilities Ten, Chi, and Jin have been adjusted.

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That's great. I would have loved to know "how" they were adjusted, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.

I think my eyes are broken, is there Spanish in the patch notes?

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/cc5...8e7308e_63.png

That roe in the back be fly as fu.

[2.0] The PlayStation®4 DUALSHOCK®4 controller can now be used on the Windows version.

Thank goodne-


Functions such as the touchpad will be disabled.

=/.

Unless the share button acts as a touchpad click in place like with SCPserver, i'm not sold.

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Tataru is no longer available as an opponent for Triple Triad.

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/panic motion

Wait if Tataru is not a person to fight in triple triad does this mean the cards you get from her aren't going to be available or is there another way to get them?
Or is what they said existing cards will be gained from different means talking about her cards?

Also shield swipe? I wonder why shield bash isn't like dark knights stun, where they can stun freely without it being connected to other moves.

Specialist only recipes...i'm sure everyone saw that coming.


Prepare for bitching folks.

[2.0] In an effort to curb RMT activities, the number of friend requests players can send per day (Earth time) will be limited to 5.
* The friend request counter will be reset daily at midnight (Earth time).

Hopefully this will make them less annoying for the friend request anyway.

Why could they not let Neverreap and Fractal Continuum remain sitting in Expert instead of shipping them off to a new Roulette category? Just two dungeons isn't a "roulette", SE, it's flipping a coin and it is boring. Expert would be much improved if 3.1 had given us four dungeons in it (Neverreap, Fractal Continuum and the two new ones) instead of only two again. Ffs...

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Clan mark logs obtained from hunts can be exchanged with Bertana in Idyllshire (X:5 Y:5) for the following items:
Illuminati Gobtwine / Carboncoat / Wyvern Horn

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Well, at least the only thing I'll probably want now from Centurio Seals is that Wyvern Horn, so I wont have to suffer Hunts for long... I'm seriously sick of this though... Stop giving Hunts this kind of demand, Hunts are at their worst when the entire server feels the need to jump on them... Just make them force popped if you're going to give them this kind of demand, then you can actually balance the encounters and stuff... So sick of Hunts being a mindless zergfest... I actually find them reasonably fun when I can solo/low man them with friends, or call in a small group for the bigger ones, the whole "My Grandmas neighbors dead cats vets son hasn't turned up yet! Don't pull!" thing just completely kills Hunts for me... Scaling up their HP doesn't do jack sh!t, just make them force popped already FFS...

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

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Tataru is no longer available as an opponent for Triple Triad.

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This does not bode well.

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Originally Posted by LaurelinKementari

Why could they not let Neverreap and Fractal Continuum remain sitting in Expert instead of shipping them off to a new Roulette category? Just two dungeons isn't a "roulette", SE, it's flipping a coin and it is boring. Expert would be much improved if 3.1 had given us four dungeons in it (Neverreap, Fractal Continuum and the two new ones) instead of only two again. Ffs...

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I don't know about you, but I literally do not want to step into those two dungeons ever again. I did them on the daily for months now, 3 months of these 2 new dungeons that you won't even need to due to do (due to VA and the Diadem giving tomestones) isn't even close to being as bad. I would never touch the roulette again if it meant stepping into Neverreap for another 3 months!

Happy with crafting gathering adjustments! Thanks SE!

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Originally Posted by Colorful

I don't know about you, but I literally do not want to step into those two dungeons ever again. I did them on the daily for months now, 3 months of these 2 new dungeons that you won't even need to due to do (due to VA and the Diadem giving tomestones) isn't even close to being as bad. I would never touch the roulette again if it meant stepping into Neverreap for another 3 months!

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See, the problem with that is that in three months, you'll feel the exact same way about Pharos Sirius HM and that new garden dungeon thingie. Only two dungeons in Expert is murder for people's tolerance of said dungeons. I'd pick a 25% chance to get Neverreap over flipping a coin to get either Pharos or the other one for three to four months.

Expert Roulette has only ever been 2-3 dungeons with the old list getting shunted down to High. I'm not sure where people are getting this notion that this is an exception. As for the Primal weapons... price isn't changing if not getting higher anytime soon as this adjustment will mean less people farming them because you can't do Undersized pony farming anymore.

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

Expert Roulette has only ever been 2-3 dungeons with the old list getting shunted down to High.

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Nobody's saying it's an exception, just that it's stupid with only 2 dungeons in a "roulette". At least rename it to "coinflip".

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Originally Posted by Nalien

So sick of Hunts being a mindless zergfest...

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So just do the dailies, then. I got everything I needed last time without joining the zerg once. Unless you feel the need to have it NOW NOW NOW there's no reason to not take your time.

No egi glam. sadface D:

Hunts again!? SE do you seriously not learn? People have already complained about this and your doing it again? Hunts are stupid just admit you failed on hunts and now you just trying to put it down people's throats to show that it is useful. Hunts just create a toxic community in the game and I wish they would just remove hunts as a whole, but seems SE has too much pride to see hunts was a failure.

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Originally Posted by LaurelinKementari

See, the problem with that is that in three months, you'll feel the exact same way about Pharos Sirius HM and that new garden dungeon thingie. Only two dungeons in Expert is murder for people's tolerance of said dungeons. I'd pick a 25% chance to get Neverreap over flipping a coin to get either Pharos or the other one for three to four months.

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As I said, in this patch we have more options to cap on Esoterics than ever before. That will alleviate the problem, tired of Pharos and Mocianne's whatever (I think I spelt that right), well go Airship Exploration and Void Ark to cap instead. Even if you were to just do those for 3 months, it would eventually become as bad Neverreap and Fractal were a month ago, slowly, as opposed to getting into Neverreap 8 months after its release and wanting to leave then and there.

>Illuminati Gobtwine now obtainable through hunts.

I swear to god it's like they never learn. You take one step forward by offering neat cosmetic rewards through hunts and then like 11 steps back by bringing back the Gobtwine.

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Originally Posted by Dree-Elle

So just do the dailies, then. I got everything I needed last time without joining the zerg once. Unless you feel the need to have it NOW NOW NOW there's no reason to not take your time.

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Not the problem I'm having...

I like killing the A and S Ranks, like I said I find that enjoyable when the entire server isn't jumping on them... That is effectively going to be impossible post-3.1 though, because the demand this will create will have everyone back calling in the orbital strike on every Hunt possible...

The obviously solution is to just make Hunts force popped. Then people can effectively face them how they'd like, rather than being forced to play on the same level as the entire server. I will not be able to low-man A Ranks come 3.1, this adjustment has effectively killed Hunts for me as such. Make them force popped? Problem solved. I can low-man them, the rest of the server can form an alliance and melt them in seconds. We can both play however we want to, rather than either me just losing out on Hunts completely, or becoming a pariah because I dared to pull before every single person on the server was ready...

Hunts could be a fun little open world event, similar to how Treasure Maps were for a while after 2.1 (where there were basically always Party Finder groups for them), but SE instead chooses the laziest route, and the majority of players are fine with that, because they can just follow the crowd and spam Medica II and get full credit... Hunts are f*cking absurd, like I said, I'm sick this...

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

...you can't do Undersized pony farming anymore.

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Wait, what? Didn't see anything saying that the unsync option was going away, only that Primal mat drops were being moved to the loot coffers.

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Originally Posted by Phireblast

"Ahriman / Bomb Palanquin / Logistics System / Kirin / Magitek Armor / Gilded Magitek Armor / Draught Chocobo / Ceremony Chocobo / Amber Draught Chocobo"

someday my other primal ponies will be rele-

"[2.0] It is now possible to ride mounts other than the personal chocobo while your companion is summoned.
* Riding a mount will not dismiss your companion."

HOLY SHIT

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BEST! PATCH! EVEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!
*fangirl squeal*

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

Expert Roulette has only ever been 2-3 dungeons with the old list getting shunted down to High. I'm not sure where people are getting this notion that this is an exception. As for the Primal weapons... price isn't changing if not getting higher anytime soon as this adjustment will mean less people farming them because you can't do Undersized pony farming anymore.

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wait what?
it's actually gonna be the other way around. Because now you can actually get those mats when unsynced farming.

In response to gobtwine etc. from hunts, I present:

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Originally Posted by PatchNotes

Completion Reward
Upon completing the Void Ark, players can also earn a separate reward once per week. This reward can be exchanged with Bertana in Idyllshire (X:5 Y:5) for items used to enhance equipment purchased with Allagan tomestones of esoterics.

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So you'll be able to get it from:

A: Void Ark
B: Daily/Weekly Hunts
C: A/S Rank Hunts

I doubt that anyone will really need to be doing the A/S rank stuff unless they want their upgrade items beyond ASAP in a patch that doesn't really add anything particularly harder/requiring better gear than what we already had.

So, you know, just don't zerg it? The gear won't be necessary for anything, and you'll get it anyway without dealing with that.

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The following item for concealing the appearance of a pugilist's arm is available for purchase from Tataroga in Mor Dhona at Revenant's Toll (X:22 Y:6).
The Emperor's New Fist

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OH BABY!!!

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Originally Posted by zar

OH BABY!!!

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Shh.

Trying not to think too much about that so the hype doesn't kill me. Been wanting it ever since I rolled pugilist way back whenever.

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Originally Posted by Krylo

In response to gobtwine etc. from hunts, I present:



So you'll be able to get it from:

A: Void Ark
B: Daily/Weekly Hunts
C: A/S Rank Hunts

I doubt that anyone will really need to be doing the A/S rank stuff unless they want their upgrade items beyond ASAP in a patch that doesn't really add anything particularly harder/requiring better gear than what we already had.

So, you know, just don't zerg it? The gear won't be necessary for anything, and you'll get it anyway without dealing with that.

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You're going to see parties for ThordanEX requiring full i210 gear except for the weapon after a few days, I guarantee it.

Hunts are the closest you're getting to XI's NMs in this game. Their mechanics are almost exactly the same with exceptions that are gladly absent (like fecking lottery spawns... >,< ). Hunts are also substantially better with how you're rewarded. You get something whether or not you were a top damager or even in a party (I've gotten 10 marks from S hunts just for showing up and shooting it, not bad when you consider the alternative of nothing). I don't get what people really wanted out of it, though if I think of how NMs worked in XI the unrest makes so much sense. Thankfully, Square liked that nonsense as much as players did.

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Originally Posted by Colorful

You're going to see parties for ThordanEX requiring full i210 gear except for the weapon after a few days, I guarantee it.

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People are stupid, so probably (particularly as weapon is the first thing you should upgrade as it has the highest effect on your ability).

Make your own PF requiring 200 or less. Problem solved.

Yet another patch that still doesn't let you put augmented AF sets in the armoire.

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Originally Posted by Dree-Elle

Wait, what? Didn't see anything saying that the unsync option was going away, only that Primal mat drops were being moved to the loot coffers.

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Undersized isn't going away, but if you remember when you do undersized runs the reward chest is gone. The patch is moving direct drops, like ponies and materials, to the chest. If the drops are in the chest, but the chest is gone...

[2.0]The following item for concealing the appearance of a pugilist's arm is available for purchase from Tataroga in Mor Dhona at Revenant's Toll (X:22 Y:6).
The Emperor's New Fist

GET READY FOR EVERY MONK NOT TO BE USING THEIR WEAPON!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Krylo

People are stupid, so probably (particularly as weapon is the first thing you should upgrade as it has the highest effect on your ability).

Make your own PF requiring 200 or less. Problem solved.

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I said excluding the weapon because I believe the weapon can't be upgraded until a later point, but yes I will be creating my own PF/running it with FC mates. Doesn't change that a lot of that crap will happen, and some people are too afraid to start up their own PF for whatever reason.

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Originally Posted by Elvin

Shield Swipe Is now an ability and does not trigger global cooldown.
Recast time has been adjusted to 15 seconds.
Potency has been reduced from 210 to 150.


This is a buff or a nerf?

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It's a Pld mt dps increase, which Pld needed extremely badly compared to the other two tanks, and a mt enmity increase by being ogcd. Before Shield Swipe was a dead skill on Pld, but yeah anything that is ogcd is a dps increase for a class. So it's a buff

Atleast SE changed something on Pld.

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Originally Posted by Isius

It's a Pld mt dps increase, which Pld needed extremely badly compared to the other two tanks, and a mt enmity increase by being ogcd. Before Shield Swipe was a dead skill on Pld, but yeah anything that is ogcd is a dps increase for a class. So it's a buff

Atleast SE changed sometime on Pld.

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Thanks!

If it was a dead skill and wasn't being used AT ALL (I don't know it) shoud be a 150 potency increase /15 seconds, so... 10 potency/second, so.... around 70 dps more? That woud be something xD

Patch is great! Loving everything about it!