Patch 3.4 Notes (Preliminary)

The link is here:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...f9ac67543943ad

Reload Ammo no longer has a timer? Love it.

All those wonderful AST Buffs? Incredible.
Healer LBs no longer inflict Weakness? Fantastic.

More additions to PotD even before the new floors? I wonder what those hoards will have for loot?

Alexander stuff looks gorgeous, and so do those Scripture weapons. Sharlayan Blacksmiths know how to make some sexy-ass steel.

3-Star Crafting Mats cheapened?
Crafter in me lets out a little cheer. Though I worry it's just because there'll be 4-Star stuff to be charged higher on. Gap keeps widening...

Love love love LOVE that stat-caps are now displayed whilst melding materia. Makes life much easier.
Also love that list of Furnishings that no longer get destroyed when removed. Far, far too long awaited.
New emotes look like fun. Especially that facepalm and that smug-as-hell expression.

I'm pretty excited about the Astro buffs too.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtBtakNW8AASSEl.jpg

And nothing on the glamor pet for SMN ...
Why ? Yoshida announced the system for 3.4 and nothing on the patch notes ?

Toward the end of the trailer, the Warrior of Darkness is holding chains, and for a split second it shows a dark figure whom those chains are wrapped around. At first, I thought it was Thancred, but I don't think Thancred is covered in spikes.

Racism against Lalafells still runs rampant throughout the community. Where's our report button? <(o.O)>

http://i.imgur.com/jp0irja.png

/happy :D

Those AST buffs are utterly insane. I dare say this might actually kick WHM out of priority despite its AoE healing.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Those AST buffs are utterly insane. I dare say this might actually kick WHM out of priority despite its AoE healing.

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For those who are equally skilled with White Mage and Ast, definitely.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Those AST buffs are utterly insane. I dare say this might actually kick WHM out of priority despite its AoE healing.

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My static WHM and SCH are currently discussing who is going to switch to the "horribly broken" healer in Skype. I don't see buffs like this remaining unless S-E wants a disproportional amount of AST running around.

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Originally Posted by Khanscott

My static WHM and SCH are currently discussing who is going to switch to the "horribly broken" healer in Skype. I don't see buffs like this remaining unless S-E wants a disproportional amount of AST running around.

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This definitely feels more like a "band-aid" fix, rather than something they intend to keep for the future. Probably going to stay this way until 4.0. Who knows...

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Those AST buffs are utterly insane. I dare say this might actually kick WHM out of priority despite its AoE healing.

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Better kick scholar now, WHM/AST combo must be insane after the patch :eek:

As a main MCH I love that :

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...622727-mch.png

Thank you SE for listening to our request posted in this thread :)

Balance is now wwaaaayyy better than trick attack.

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/c24...3943ad_140.png

http://i.imgur.com/u4LeQTk.gif

I do like a clean screen

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Originally Posted by Arg0n

Better kick scholar now, WHM/AST combo must be insane after the patch :eek:

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LOL? you're kidding right, no static worth it's salt will ever run White mage and Astro, SCH dps will still smash both over a encounter

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Originally Posted by Genaxx

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/c24...3943ad_140.png

http://i.imgur.com/u4LeQTk.gif

I do like a clean screen

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HONESTLY
I'm so stoked about this too it's disgusting

1. Love the new tree for housing! (need item limit increase asap though!!) But the tree is beautiful!

2. tyty for removing at least some of the furniture destruction! A step in the right direction!! Please slowly remove the feature entirely! :)

3 chocobo house is soooooooo cute!! would make one if my Moogle one wasn't going to be destroyed in the process :(

4. GS chocobo barding - lol is very cute

5. 2 new dungeons look nice too.

A few things to look forward to :)

That is a metric ton of QoL changes. Thank you very much SE.

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Originally Posted by Qojon

Racism against Lalafells still runs rampant throughout the community. Where's our report button? <(o.O)>

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Enter my personal house locate stove and it is inside the oven, please close oven door before pressing button.

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Originally Posted by Kikoten

Toward the end of the trailer, the Warrior of Darkness is holding chains, and for a split second it shows a dark figure whom those chains are wrapped around. At first, I thought it was Thancred, but I don't think Thancred is covered in spikes.

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It's the placeholder for the Warrior Of Light, covered in Eso DRG Armor like in previous trailers.

still no tanks flying mounts :(

Look at all these QoL changes that I will appreciate especially that Countdown Timer and also Multiple clock display. No more sitting through annoying countdown macros by anyone.

This one under alex savage is weird

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Level Requirement
Disciple of War or Magic level 60
(Two or more of the same job is not permitted)

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i guess it won't be present in premade parties but it's not actually stated in the patch notes. also the bolded part is only present in the english and japanese version of the patch notes, but not in french nor german.

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Originally Posted by Laurima

http://i.imgur.com/jp0irja.png

/happy :D

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This is great and all but I hope something is actually done fast when a character gets reports flooding in about them, otherwise it's not much use.

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

Enter my personal house locate stove and it is inside the oven, please close oven door before pressing button.

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http://i.imgur.com/1R9ouu2.jpg

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

HONESTLY
I'm so stoked about this too it's disgusting

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When I heard about this (and its great) I was hoping something similar was in the works for keybord users :c

Would like to adjust transparency in general, including the ability to hide the actions when my weapon isnt sheathed or something.
(Along with other combinations, like make the UI smaller/bigger than the designated %, and to hide some features, that cant be hidden, w/o hiding all of the UI, and seperating soem UI elements that are grouped together, but I would want one, but not the other.)

Finally RMT reporting made easy

Dont forget we get craftable glowing Ravana- and Thordan-weapons (and a lot more crafting stuff).

My personal highlights:

• Palace of the Dead (including new treasure chests)
• Sophia Ex (and her music!!!)
• Machinist now without ammunition-timer (yay)
• Duel-Mode and Custom Feast
• Story Mode
• More options for fancy screenshots /gpose
• New Housing stuff (including Orchestrion playlist and new scrolls)
• Alexander Final (for some reason)
• Materia meld Parameter Preview
• New Pulltimer without using a macro
• Direct RMT Report Feature (finally!)

Missing:

• Egi Glamours
• Palace of the Dead Ranking
• Chinese dress in Mog Station (coming on patch day)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtBtakNW8AASSEl.jpg[

so it looks like the new meta is expanded royal road Balance into Celestial Opposition on opener? Maybe or maybe not but that 20% is too damn good.

Just glad that Redraw shares the same cd timer as Draw so I can finally draw an ewer or spire back to back every 30 seconds. >.<

So... the absolute best thing added to this patch is that healer buff.

LB3 no longer gives weakness. Finally. The amount of QoL in this patch is awesome so far.

Most of this stuff sounds pretty awesome, but I'm just a bit disappointed at the changes involving the highlander emote. Don't get me wrong, that they're getting a new unique one is absolutely long overdue, but did they really have to give the old one to everyone? That just strips the Hildy emote of its uniqueness instead.

Oh and:

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Originally Posted by Rhaja

LB3 no longer gives weakness. Finally. The amount of QoL in this patch is awesome so far.

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Yeah, I've always thought that made the healer lb a bit less... "Limit Break" than it could have been.

Egi Glamours?

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...43/243/419.gif

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Originally Posted by SpiritMuse

Most of this stuff sounds pretty awesome, but I'm just a bit disappointed at the changes involving the highlander emote. Don't get me wrong, that they're getting a new unique one is absolutely long overdue, but did they really have to give the old one to everyone? That just strips the Hildy emote of its uniqueness instead.

Oh and:


Yeah, I've always thought that made the healer lb a bit less... "Limit Break" than it could have been.

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I thought everyone got that emote from a quest or something, which is what spurred them to give highlanders a unique emote. (I may be wrong on this, as I barely remember what i once read on this subject long ago)

There's 1 note I don't like: "When accessing shortcuts or returning from being incapacitated after an instance is completed, players will be moved to the exit"

Completely unnecessary since you can hit leave from the menu when the dungeon is done with no penalty. I submitted a suggestion a while ago in game they update the wording to make that more clear too.

And if my party doesn't want to go run to the side for the demon brick minion chest in AK is it really that bad of an idea for me to want to go grab it after people who don't care have left?

So now you're going to at least occasionally get people who will run off to those things slowing runs down because now that's the only way to get them.

And for what? To stop the minor annoyance of sticking around after a dungeon only to find out someone else had the same idea? lol

They should've just made it an option.

AST & PLD buffs are weird. AST's will be effective for sure, especially the change to Balance (20% jeez), but PLD's is kinda hard to gauge. Obviously it doesn't fix PLD but it could bring it up to DRK DPS levels as long as it spends tons of time in SwO.

Other stuff ranges from bleh to meh to alright.

e: Oh yeah, the healer LB3 buff is pretty cool too. Better hope they didn't give us hard mechanics we can just sac to this raid tier though... ( ' - '

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

AST & PLD buffs are weird. AST's will be effective for sure, especially the change to Balance (20% jeez), but PLD's is kinda hard to gauge. Obviously it doesn't fix PLD but it could bring it up to DRK DPS levels as long as it spends tons of time in SwO.

Other stuff ranges from bleh to meh to alright.

e: Oh yeah, the healer LB3 buff is pretty cool too. Better hope they didn't give us hard mechanics we can just sac to this raid tier though... ( ' - '

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Just sad they didn't address the bulk of the recent complaints here about them still being terrible for dungeon runs. #giveflashtraitdamagepls

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

Obviously it doesn't fix PLD but it could bring it up to DRK DPS levels as long as it spends tons of time in SwO.

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Is it really the only way they can think of to fix PLD ?
I don't understand...PLD is supposed to be "the tank that mitigates" and WAR, "the tank that does damage", yet all they do to make PLD more desirable is to improve its raw DPS...

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Is it really the only way they can think of to fix PLD ?
I don't understand...PLD is supposed to be "the tank that mitigates" and WAR, "the tank that does damage", yet all they do to make PLD more desirable is to improve its raw DPS...

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They got confused and gave it to AST. Bole is essentially a long tank CD now.

But I'm guessing they're trying to help PLD do better in OT spot?

/facepalm

Tons of use in PuGs