Patch 1.17a has been announced but...

What changes will this bring? Do we have any idea as of yet?

Its a secret.

None. It's a maintenance patch. Major update are usually numbered, not lettered.

1.16 - System Adjustments, implementation of NM content.

1.17 - Preparation for Grand Companies, Mid-range NM Implementation.

1.17a - Fixes, fixes, fixes. It's gonna be a small patch. SMALL.


To reiterate, content and gameplay patches tend to be incremential in NUMBERS. The "a" at the end of 1.17 means it's a fix, or a progress patch.

Don't get your hopes up.

They had announced they split the patch into two this time. 70% in the last patch, 30% in this one. Just want to know what we will be seeing

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Originally Posted by SilvertearRen

None. It's a maintenance patch. Major update are usually numbered, not lettered.

1.16 - System Adjustments, implementation of NM content.

1.17 - Preparation for Grand Companies, Mid-range NM Implementation.

1.17a - Fixes, fixes, fixes. It's gonna be a small patch. SMALL.


To reiterate, content and gameplay patches tend to be incremential in NUMBERS. The "a" at the end of 1.17 means it's a fix, or a progress patch.

Don't get your hopes up.

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Except they already said that 1.17a is going to contain the major changes already planned for 1.17 that couldn't be finished for 1.17 because of the Natural Disasters that impeded their development. 30% of 1.17 is still being stuffed into 1.17a

Except SilvertearRen, that Yoshi-P told us that originally there wasn't to be a patch 1.17a but due to the disaster in Japan, they couldn't get the rest (30%) of the content ready for 1.17 thus making a 1.17a patch. That indicated that there would atleast be some sort of content. But who knows?!

Edit: Cairdeas was faster than me :o

I'd like to know too, we know it's going to be content held back in 1.17, but WHAT that is... we don't really know.

Even if it's nothing substantial, I just want to know what

If you could call a guess an idea, I would guess it includes a fix for the fix that keeps retainers in the Market Wards when servers crash.

It might also include an adjustment to the respawn timers of the 20 mid-rank NMs.

If we are lucky, it will also include some beefing up of the HNMs.

If we are really lucky, it will even add a few more Grand Company quests and the continuation of the Hatchingtide holiday event quests.

Generally, the team only tweaks the original patches features in the "a" and "b" subpatches. Brand new stuff is usually given its own patch number.

EDIT: Good point on the disaster postponing some content. So we're very likely to get some more quests, then.

I hope they fix the spawn of the Prince of Pestilence >.>

I thought they were going to announce information on the grand companies this week???? =[

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I hope they fix the spawn of the Prince of Pestilence >.>

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Oh yeah, on Besaid the Prince has been under the ground for quite some time

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Originally Posted by JayvirDeforte

Oh yeah, on Besaid the Prince has been under the ground for quite some time

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Yep. Hilarious isn't it? (I'm from Besaid, btw.)

And in response to all those who mentioned Yoshi's statement about 1.17a? I was going off of the western approach to patch increments - in Western development, lettered patches tend to be hotfixes or backend updates, while full numbered updates are major patches.

So, I apologize for the confusion.

Well the size of this patch is about 43% of the last one so my guess is it is either something they don't want us to speculate about or it's just system/ui changes and getting ready for the battle patch.

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Well the size of this patch is about 43% of the last one so my guess is it is either something they don't want us to speculate about or it's just system/ui changes and getting ready for the battle patch.

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And where did this 43% come from?

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Originally Posted by JayvirDeforte

And where did this 43% come from?

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last one was 70%, next one is 30%. 30%/70%=42.8%. It's 30% of the full patch but ~43% of the last patch.

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Originally Posted by Xeno

last one was 70%, next one is 30%. 30%/70%=42.8%. It's 30% of the full patch but ~43% of the last patch.

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lol pwned....

Ummm... auto-attack?

Guess we'll find out on Monday what's in the patch since date has been posted on lodestone

Might be the back-end of the holiday event that we can't figure out. My guess is that they didn't get it finished in time due to circumstances, which is fine. That'd be almost 30% of 1.17, considering how much 1.17 beat expectations.

SE explained at an earlier time that patch 1.17 and 1.17a were originally one patch but to get it out to use quicker they broke it into two sections. Patch 1.17 would be 70% of the original patch and 1.17a would be the other 30%. We know at the very least that 1.17a will have the Grand Companies in it.

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

Except they already said that 1.17a is going to contain the major changes already planned for 1.17 that couldn't be finished for 1.17 because of the Natural Disasters that impeded their development. 30% of 1.17 is still being stuffed into 1.17a

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or 70% :O!!!!

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We know at the very least that 1.17a will have the Grand Companies in it.

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This is setting up for disappointment.

'm going to say its the oher 30%

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Originally Posted by Frebaut

'm going to say its the oher 30%

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One can hope I guess.

What if it is just small fixes and the missing 30% shows up later as 1.18....
That would be sad... but funny

LOLPATCH 1.17a

They adding
Salvage
Dynamis
Fafnir
Nidhogg
Behemoth
King Behemoth
Aspid
Tiamat
all right outside of Uldah Limsa and the other city

also to come 2hr ability called "Random Job Ability Because no character uniqueness"

for all causal players a OMFG button sort of like JP button which does this somewhat the same they kill a lvl 1 mob and get 500m gill + all drops in the game before hardcore also a unclaim hardcore members monsters

Have a feeling that it'll be underwhelming. Don't really like being so negative, but I wouldn't expect much.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

SE explained at an earlier time that patch 1.17 and 1.17a were originally one patch but to get it out to use quicker they broke it into two sections. Patch 1.17 would be 70% of the original patch and 1.17a would be the other 30%. We know at the very least that 1.17a will have the Grand Companies in it.

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wouldn't be so sure about that

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Originally Posted by Amage

They adding
Salvage
Dynamis
Fafnir
Nidhogg
Behemoth
King Behemoth
Aspid
Tiamat
all right outside of Uldah Limsa and the other city

also to come 2hr ability called "Random Job Ability Because no character uniqueness"

for all causal players a OMFG button sort of like JP button which does this somewhat the same they kill a lvl 1 mob and get 500m gill + all drops in the game before hardcore also a unclaim hardcore members monsters

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I heard about this like a month ago, so I'm not that surprised...needed new info GOD!

lol

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Originally Posted by zaviermhigo

I heard about this like a month ago, so I'm not that surprised...needed new info GOD!

lol

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hey you ma'am can go eat a .......

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Originally Posted by Amage

hey you ma'am can go eat a .......

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I was on your side lol, I liked your post, but its ok you can't read tone on forums I forgive you.

Just hope people don't go bonkers over this patch because there's no endgame content...(...yeah, wishful thinking..)

It would be silly of SE to release endgame content without charging us, so until I see a notice that SE will be charging next month, I'm not holding my breath that any patch holds endgame content. Most likely this patch will be minor tweaks and fixes, maybe an introduction to Grand Companies, but not fully operational.

Hope something cool pops up. If not I won't be dissapointed really.

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Originally Posted by Amage

They adding
Salvage
Dynamis
Fafnir
Nidhogg
Behemoth
King Behemoth
Aspid
Tiamat
all right outside of Uldah Limsa and the other city

also to come 2hr ability called "Random Job Ability Because no character uniqueness"

for all causal players a OMFG button sort of like JP button which does this somewhat the same they kill a lvl 1 mob and get 500m gill + all drops in the game before hardcore also a unclaim hardcore members monsters

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But all those NMs and stuff you mentioned here will be for ranks 25-35 =p

Chocobo Egg Cap please :<

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Originally Posted by Zahak

Chocobo Egg Cap please :<

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I like how this man is thinkin.

As I remember correctly, 30% of AWESOME is still AWESOME.

didnt they say 1.17 will have grand company???

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Originally Posted by zoekwon

didnt they say 1.17 will have grand company???

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well they did add some introductory quests for them. But no, just releasing info about them. But who knows It will not be just hotfixes. All we know is servers are down for 2 hours and that this is the rest of 1.17. So it could possible be grand companies cuz i can't think of anything they can change or add outside of grand companies.