PvP changes in Patch 4.41

Hello everyone!

We hope you’ve been enjoying Patch 4.4 so far, I know I have! I’m here to talk to you today about some of the recent changes implemented in 4.4 and what’s on the horizon in Patch 4.41. This is a recap of what was discussed in today's Adrenaline Rush TV, the Japanese community team's PvP show!

The dev. team is interested in speeding up the overall tempo of the Feast, thus changes coming forward in Patch 4.4 focus on encouraging more kills to happen throughout a match.

The FRC Semifinals shown a spotlight on the popularity on specific jobs, and the dev. team is interested in bringing more of a balance across the board as a result. You will see some more job adjustments in Patch 4.41 so please look forward to it!

White Mage in particular has been under-utilized for a few seasons now. The dev. team added Tetragrammaton and removed Benediction in order to align White Mage with the current tempo of the game. They will be especially working on skills and abilities that benefit from the Lily system. Their goal with White Mage is to allow players to manage cooldowns efficiently, without feeling stress of their cooldown system.

That being said, we are all excited to see the culmination of the FRC unfold across all three regions! We hope you tune in and cheer on all the teams that have fought hard to get to this point! We also encourage you all to continue providing feedback throughout the season and wish you the best of luck in season 10! :cool:

I hope the dev team is taking a good look at SMN....!

Thanks for the update.

Don't suppose there's any hope of news for Rival Wings?

Thanks for the update as well. Is it possible to look into reducing the strength of some jobs in Frontlines? One GC in our server group makes parties of only bards, healers, and machinists. This combination is nigh on impossible to beat It really lowers the fun and morale when your opposition has an invincible team.

Looking forward to the next season.
I was one win away from top 100 last time!

Lets hope they look at SMN cause we are hurting real bad.

Meta needs sorting badly. SMN has the potential to actually be in a reasonable spot without being a big pick, but the high mana costs of multi-dotting for the low amount of pressure and dot duration you get out of it means as it stands you will never have a reason to play one other than BRD. Yes it has good DRG pairing - but BRD has it even better. BRD can swap even without dots in an emergency - we can't even think about it as SMN. The issue is when the game's situation is currently get something to 100-0 after a 5 second cd or melee lb healer and snowball in mid culling, SMN is incredibly underwhelming. This is not withstanding the fact BRD can peel both melee and casters with blunt arrow and repelling shot.

Give SMN some attention. ^_^

can we buff bard please

so all this and no quality of life improvements?

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Originally Posted by Fishbowl3

so all this and no quality of life improvements?

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The WHM change with tetra was a QoL improvement for WHM. The midare buff last patch was a QoL improvement for SAM.

4.41 will most likely see QoL improvements to the other classes that have not received one, or hopefully changes to classes that desperately need a kit rework/update (looking at you SMN).

nice, i hope u see my topic ;D

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Originally Posted by Fishbowl3

so all this and no quality of life improvements?

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Be more specific. There have been QoL changes added in most updates as of late.

WHM buff is pretty big once assize do not cost lilies anymore. It is same time lot easier to play and control your mana pool.

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Originally Posted by Sunako

WHM buff is pretty big once assize do not cost lilies anymore. It is same time lot easier to play and control your mana pool.

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Yeah this change surprised me quite a bit - but it's not unwelcome. Also frees up lillies to be used with the new tetra.

Technically couldn't an alliance of 24 white mage in frontlines wipe an enemy alliance if they all used assize? And not sure if it's overpowered but they can do a good chunk of damage to both adrenaline kits with it, was that intended?

healing is getting harder on the feast!
it is great!

its harder for any healer to heal now,
my opignion for this patch :
1/ sch is overnerfed for our meta in Chaos/NA, seem they do it for the japanese meta, its why i would be curious to see on an event FFXIV related with best japan lp versus best NA or EU lp feast match.

2/ its hard to balance the 3 tanks, since all 3 tanks is pretty different , if you gonna buff damage like in this patch, the war shine more when i tough he was already good before.

I Hope SE will look into this next feast patch

Pre 4.4/4.41, if teams coordinated and burst at every opportunity available, kills would happen often outside of Culling/Danger Time. Bursting as frequently as possible will burn through enemy defensive cooldowns, thus swaying the match in the favor of the attacking team.

The changes in the 4.4X patches definitely reflect the JP FRC events more so than the EU/NA FRC events. Also, during the PvPaissa, Aether Cup (now the Wolves Cup), and Aether League events, the pace/excitement was in a pretty good place as a spectator (I believe these events were played on the s8/9 patches).

Job balance was off for some overpowered and underpowered jobs. Mobility is very strong (SAM), ranged jobs with no mobility and requiring to be in melee range are/were big issues (SMN).

Whereas in JP
- The meta is more passive, not because of game mechanics/balance, but choice Which is fine, but is not optimal to balance around.
- Defensive cooldowns are mostly always up outside of the initial attack in Danger Time,
- Danger Time skirmishes are a 'coin flip' because of the nature of the damage scaling debuff players receive.

If the JP region continue to play passive, the changes will only affect the western regions, which did not need more power pushed onto the melee (SAM/DRG) role. The game balance will be more polarized and give less job variety.

TLDR, when balancing for a region's play style and not for the game mode's overall potential, imbalance is created.