Is savage unlocking in 3.55 ?

I saw there was a maintenance on Feb 27 for 3.55. But will savage unlock at this point? I think it should because as it is now you beat all savage 9-12 in like a hour then you are locked out of gear for the rest of the week.

Not many people are doing progression anymore and cleared it several months ago and it would give us something to do getting all jobs to 270 before Stormblood comes out.

Historically no, they won't remove the weekly cap on gear/books for savage. Gear progression is still a valid incentive for keeping people playing and with no new content until June, SE need to give people a reason to keep subscribing and playing every week.

Maybe when they do part 2 later in march the cap will be removed, and also double the weekly cap on scriptures. We shall see.

2.55 removed the weekly restriction on Final Coil, so likely yes.

EDIT: People are mentioning the "March" patch, but I don't think it's likely we are getting a patch in March since Feb 27/28 is borderline March anyways.

I would guess in the March patch they will abolish the lockouts. Coil loot lockout was abolished in 2.55; however the way they did patch 2.5/2.55 was essentially the same as 3.5 part 1/3.5 part 2.

There are two parts of the 3.55 "series", there will be another after the Feb 28th. The Double Scripture cap will come earlier than Poetics did in ARR because he mentioned he'd like players to have an alternate job geared before the xpac.

There really is no incentive to unlock Savage at this point, they have to exhaust all the other options first. Plus just imagine the i275 Alex weapon inflation at this point.

Maybe. The following patches in the dead time before the expac will probably add echo for any last minute clears before they become WT status in SB.

They might wait longer so it doesn't compete with Diadem and whatever else they add.

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Originally Posted by technole

There are two parts of the 3.55 "series", there will be another after the Feb 28th. The Double Scripture cap will come earlier than Poetics did in ARR because he mentioned he'd like players to have an alternate job geared before the xpac.

There really is no incentive to unlock Savage at this point, they have to exhaust all the other options first. Plus just imagine the i275 Alex weapon inflation at this point.

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I am trying to gear alt jobs like my monk and I ran into problems like that. The weapon and body are both bis I have 11 extra a12s books. That is another 5 weeks before I could get both, not buying either until then in case I get the random drop. I know that last time 2.55 unlocked it so I would hoping it comes sooner rather then later to give people time to get all their jobs to 270 to ease the leveling process in stormblood when you have to get all your jobs to 70 which will take a long time once it is out.

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Originally Posted by ErryK

2.55 removed the weekly restriction on Final Coil, so likely yes.

EDIT: People are mentioning the "March" patch, but I don't think it's likely we are getting a patch in March since Feb 27/28 is borderline March anyways.

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They've said several times that there will be a March patch. Until they announce a delay to 3.56 we should still assume that is when it will appear. If it arrives at the end of March there's only 10 weeks or thereabouts until the beginning of Stormblood pre-release.

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

They've said several times that there will be a March patch. Until they announce a delay to 3.56 we should still assume that is when it will appear. If it arrives at the end of March there's only 10 weeks or thereabouts until the beginning of Stormblood pre-release.

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I know they've said it multiple times, but they also said Spring 2015 for Heavensward but we got that in June. They also said that we'd get FC alliances, but that's not come to fruition. They've said a lot of things that have changed over time. I don't take it as concrete unless it says so, and as it says 3.55 and they said 3.5 will be split betwen 3.5 and 3.55, then I am led to believe this is 3.5 part 2.

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Originally Posted by ErryK

I don't take it as concrete unless it says so, and as it says 3.55 and they said 3.5 will be split betwen 3.5 and 3.55, then I am led to believe this is 3.5 part 2.

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Thing is, they have listed 3.55 and 3.5 part 2 as separate things on the same timeline, with one expected feb and the other march.

3.5 part 2 is not 3.55
It's the March patch.

EDIT: So it seems I'm mistaken in thinking 3.55 is 3.5 Part 2, apparently that's 3.56 even though interviews and the live letter itself state that 3.55 IS 3.5 Part 2.

AFAIK 3.55(feb28) is all the content and part 2(march) is only the conclusion of the story and some minor hotfixes

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Originally Posted by Phafi

AFAIK 3.55(feb28) is all the content

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3.55 is the new Diadem.

Everything else comes later. Unlocking Savage next week would be to early for the usual raid cycle.