Dream Patch Notes

What are your dream patch notes for 2.1?

Aside from content already announced, of course.

Mine are:

- You will no longer receive rewards from any Duty unless you were on the threat table for the last boss.
- Kick vote functionality has been added to the Duty Finder and will require a 3/4 or 6/8 majority.
- Players will have longer Duty Finder cooldown times if they are kicked by vote, or leave before a Duty is finished.
- Players who frequently initiate kick votes will have dramatically increased cooldowns for initiating kick votes, which reset to their maximum length upon entering a dungeon.
- Immediately following the completion of a Duty in the Duty Finder, you may choose to honor your teammates for being helpful or friendly. Players with a sufficient honor ratio for their latest 30 Duties will receive increased tomestone and extra gil rewards.
- You may now hide the helmet of any Heavy armor set.
- Blacklist and Report Spam options has been added to the context menu which opens when a name is right-clicked or selected in the chat window.
- Fantasia is now purchasable from the Mog Station.

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- You will no longer receive rewards from any Duty unless you were on the threat table for all bosses.

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And no one ever joins a dungeon in progress again.

Oh my. Good point.

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- Kick vote functionality has been added to the Duty Finder and will require a 3/4 or 6/8 majority.

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Apparently one mans dream note is another man's nightmare-game-breaking-abusable-exploit-filled note.

*Pentamelding has been increased to become heptamelding; of course difficulty has been adjusted accordingly.


*Crafting professions can now craft gear that is 10 ilevels below the best dungeon/token gear in the game. (Combined with above, it means that crafted HQ gear heptamelded would be best in the game)


* A bed in the shape of a giant moogle.

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Originally Posted by VitoScaletta

Apparently one mans dream note is another man's nightmare-game-breaking-abusable-exploit-filled note.

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So you want people to not be able to remove players that are verbally abusive or intentionally wiping? And before anyone brings out that old 'just report them' whine, it doesn't work. Not unless:

- Players' servers are now included with their character names when they join a party using the Duty Finder.

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Originally Posted by Livilda

- Immediately following the completion of a Duty in the Duty Finder, you may choose to honor your teammates for being helpful or friendly. Players with a sufficient honor ratio for their latest 30 Duties will receive increased tomestone and extra gil rewards.

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Like that wouldn't be exploited like hell.

Fix the positional lag. For the love of everything good in this world, fix the lag. Also there is way more abuse now without a vote kick feature than with one. Wish people would understand that. It's the lesser of two evils.

When I saw the vote/kick thing, all I thought was that people would use it to kick first timers watching cutscenes, and no progression would ever be made by any new playerbase (without the help of friends). Either that or it was just a way for elitists to kick undergeared/unwanted classes..... A griefing tool is all that comes to mind.

A Tifa mount...




Joking aside (or not);

1. I hope that war gets a buff/tweak to increase its hp and defiance/wrath mechanics to help off-set its lack of dmg mitigation. At 9999 hp a war can tank like a pld with roughly 5000 hp. Its very sad atm.
2. Dye-able AF. I want my wine red pld and snow white war NOW!!!!
3. Mobs in dungeons 45+ drop tomes around 1-3. It really adds up when you kill everything plus coupled with the reward tomes you get upon completion.
4. Render priority ENEMY/BOSS > PARTY > NPC/POI > OTHER PC > CHOCOBO/SUMMON > MINION > OTHER
5. In addition to number 4 changing target does not make the prior target disappear. ie. when switching from boss to adds in fates the boss doesn't disappear.
6. Elemental strengths and weaknesses!!! How is fire doing more dmg than ice to a Bomb?

That is all.

Here are a few of mine:

Delivery Moogles:

• There are now Moogles in the lobby of every Inn

Summoning Bells and Retainers

• There is now a Summoning Bell in every crafting hall
• Bells have been hung from the ceiling so people can no longer stand ON the bell and block others from access (a bell chain has been added so Lala can ring the bell)
• You may now hire up to two additional Retainers for a fee (but additional Retainers may NOT go to Market)

Inventory

• You now have an option to display all your inventory bags simultaneously
• You now have an option to label bags (Ingredients, Reagents, Wood, etc.); items will auto-sort to the proper bag
• You may now auto-compact bags (press a key and all inventory in the bag will scoot up to fill in blank spaces)

Repairs

• There is now an option to Repair Everything I Own

Armory

• There is now an option to LOCK all items that are currently assigned to a gear set. You will receive a warning asking if you truly want to sell, trade, move the item.
• There is now an option to auto-sort items in Armory by function (DoW, DoM, DoH, DoL) and level
• Newly acquired items in the Armory will sparkle until you click on them

Lodestone

• The option to display all Free Companies currently registered to your server is now functioning!

And, of course:

• The option to r-click/b-list (and report) has been added

-The number of materials obtained with Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy (Coke/Potash/etc) required for their respective synthesis has been reduced from 9 to 3.

-A special task force of GMs has been assigned to the Duty Finder in order to deal with problem players there, as well as removing and punishing anyone who'd rather waste everyones time instead of leaving like they want to and eating that wait penalty.

-Delivery Moogles can now be used to send mail to any members in the same Free Company as you, as well as players on your Friends List.

-The text for the Behemoth FATE has temporarily been changed, commenting on how Behemoth has grown powerful feasting on the flesh of teleport harvesting bots.

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Originally Posted by ruinedmirage

When I saw the vote/kick thing, all I thought was that people would use it to kick first timers watching cutscenes, and no progression would ever be made by any new playerbase (without the help of friends). Either that or it was just a way for elitists to kick undergeared/unwanted classes..... A griefing tool is all that comes to mind.

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- Players who frequently initiate kick votes will have dramatically increased cooldowns for initiating kick votes, which reset to their maximum length upon entering a dungeon.

All latency and Lag issues have been fixed.
Duty Finder instance queue times have been dramatically reduced for AK.

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Originally Posted by neiris

Fix the positional lag.

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for the love of everything that is good, yes.


I'd love to see sortable, text base inventory too. this clusterpoo image based inventory really really sucks and is a huge waste of time.

*The issue wherein players are still liable to take damage despite being outside of the red zone of enemy moves has been fixed.

*Music will now loop more frequently.

*Model culling has been re-prioritized towards Enemy > Party > NPCs/objects of interest > Chocobos > Out of Party PCs > Minions.

*The issue wherein players are erroneously told no items are being sold on the market despite having items up for sale with their retainers has been fixed.

* Dungeons that award tomes of either Mythology or Philosophy will award bonus tomes based on the percentage of enemies defeated. These bonuses can circumvent the 300 weekly cap provided that a new player is present.

*AF Armor and Armor combinations that grant a total of ilvl 200 or above now grant enhancements to various actions. Heavy Armor Darklight gear will confer this bonus provided both body and legs are equipped despite being 2 pieces of equipment occupying 4 slots.
A Few examples shown below:
*Foresight will confer a bonus of -20% damage reduction when used by MRDs or WARs for the ability's duration.
*MRD/WAR self heals will scale based on Max HP%
*The spell Succor will crit at a higher frequency. SCHs will now expend x1.25 more MP whenever Succor crits.
*Circle of Scorn's cooldown will be reduced by 5 seconds.

*The price for crafting materials obtained via Tomes of Philosophy has been scaled downward.

*The number of mobs that drop fleece and diremite webs have been increased.

*The drop rate for various monster items related to crafting will have their rates adjusted downward based on how long the player has been in that specific map quadrant.

*The period of time that must elapse before initiating successive instant job abilities has been shortened.

*The amount of Allagan medals that drop in higher level dungeons has been reduced in addition to having the Bronze and Tin Allagan pieces replaced with Allagan Silvers.

*The player who enters a Dungeon in progress will have 45 seconds to bypass the boss wall to join the fray, the time allotted will increase by 15 seconds based on whether the Boss in question is the 2nd or last boss of the dungeon up to 1minute and 15 seconds to enter the wall leading to the last Boss.

EDIT: Added that bonus Tomes can circumvent the weekly cap provided the run in question had a new player present.

Dream patch notes you say? ok here goes:

-Vanity slots are now implemented.

-ALL gear is now dyeable.

-AOE lag has been fixed.

-HUD layout is now truly saved, you don't have to rearrange everything on login.

-Loading priority of PCs/NPCs/mobs/companions/pets/minions has been adjusted.

-The spell graphics for holy has been changed back to the orininal admittingly far superior one, instead of that huge pink flash that most of all looks like an enhanced proshell.

-Madeen has been added as a fate primal fight, dropping tokens for mage gear and weapons, plus a minion and defeating Madeen as a summoner unlocks it's egi.

-Light metal gear sets have been added for mages who are tired of the unending lenghts of cloth.

All you losers afraid of vote kick have never experienced a vote kick system in use. It is rarely abused, deal with it and stop being a bunch of kittens.

- Several new classes and jobs are introduced.
- Cardgame makes its way into ARR.
- Open world content that are not FATEs, a lot of it and in many different forms.
- Solo/Duo/Trio challenge modes in the arena vs increasingly difficult monsters. How far can you go?

Otherwise, working servers, /tell anywhere I want, a change in SE's way of thinking in general when it comes to trying to solve problems that are not even an issue to begin with which ends up being detrimental to the overall experience. This being on top what we already know is coming in 2.1 of course.

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Originally Posted by Livilda

- Players who frequently initiate kick votes will have dramatically increased cooldowns for initiating kick votes, which reset to their maximum length upon entering a dungeon.

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-you cannot be kicked if you are in a cutscene/...though that could result in afk people force locking themselfs into a cutscene..uhm...so maybe...

-if a player has been in a cut-scene for longer then 5 minutes, allow a kick.

No cashshop items, EVER.

If you are upset with how your character looks, reroll

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Originally Posted by Livilda

- Kick vote functionality has been added to the Duty Finder and will require a 3/4 or 6/8 majority.

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Replace with:
- After 3-4 wipes in any instance you can vote disband the party with majority vote (4 person would need 3 votes, 8 person would need 5 votes) with no duty finder cooldown.

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Originally Posted by Moheeheeko

No cashshop items, EVER.

If you are upset with how your character looks, reroll

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they have fantasia in game that lets you do just that, also werent they adding in barber ?

here goes mine...
*there has been considerable progress made towards Latency issue.
*Heavy Armors now have the option for /visor.
*spam reporting opention has been added to system options under right mouse click on chat.
*Kick function has been added to instanced battles where player has been afk for 5mins or more.
*unique teleporting animation has been added for each race. (I think going for unique casting animation is bit pushing it)
*screen loading option has been added to games option menu, this allows player to pick what they rendering piority they want for different aspects on screen.
*player has been given option to add materia to gears that were perviously unavailble to meld, such as unique armors.
*monster diffculty has been increased in order to balance the option of allowing player to meld unique armors.
*player now gets stats bonus depending on their combined item level for equiped items.
*players have been allowed to reallocate their stat points once again, this option is only avaible through a new NPC who provides this service for a fixed cost.
*cost of reallocating stats points increases with each time this service is used so beaware of how and when you use this service.
*a new option "LastStand" has been added to colieseum to fight hordes of monsters has been added to Colieseum, players can now fight solo, co-op or even in party against such monsters. the rewards for this vary depending on diffculty that was choosen and size of party that took part in this battle.

*new primal battle has been added to the game.
*solo/co-op option has been added for all the dungeons that player has previously beaten, in such the diffculty has been adjusted for rush runs as well as their rewards.


*new type of artifact gear has been added for each job, the current artifact +1 gear has its Item Level reduced. new artifact has been asigned item level of 100, players are required to quest this new artifact armor called "artifact Asent" through high diffculty quests.
*new armor sets have been added to the game.
*five new dungeons have been added to the game.
*diffcult for each item has been adjusted. (so its quite hard to make HQ like in V1.0)
*along with diffculty the stats ot HQ items has been adjusted.
*items required for level 55 item set have been reduced from 9 to 3 but the diffculty for he items has been increased to balance this change. (meaning its easy to make NQ items but you will have hard time getting a HQ so the HQ items price is gonna double/triple)


thats all for now if I think of anymore Ill add in later...

-Due to a lack of a practical healing spell, Paladin has seen the ability "Holy Succor" returned to them. Holy Succor heals a target with 400 Potency and restores HP to the Paladin equal to half the value cured.

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PLEASE?

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Originally Posted by Livilda

So you want people to not be able to remove players that are verbally abusive or intentionally wiping? And before anyone brings out that old 'just report them' whine, it doesn't work. Not unless:

- Players' servers are now included with their character names when they join a party using the Duty Finder.

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And when elitists start their "That dps is under geared" rubbish, an innocent dps gets kicked and suffers further.
Did you even think this through?

-combat from 1.23 has been re-implemented into the game with added features
-all classes and jobs have been renovated due to this re-implimentation
-quality of animation has been made to be better, if not, as good as the quality that appeared in 1.23
-server lag has been virtually reduced to 0 (meaning if you see yourself out of something like plumes on your screen, you're safe)
-animation lock as been re-introduced now that server lag is 0.
-legacy players get re-imbursed 900 philosophy stones for turned in hamlet seals + 300 philosophy stones per relic weapon completed in 1.23.
-legacy gambler's crown renamed to "Gambler's Crown (Legacy)"
-allagan gear re-made into ilvl 95 or ilvl 100 and with increased stats accordingly.
-auto-sort has been added (alphabetical, repair %, etc.)
-option for text instead of icons for inventory/armory/retainer management has been implemented.
-greased lightning and twin snakes increased duration to 20 seconds.

not sure what else...

- For the love of all that is my sanity, allow me to sort my quest tracker

-Can now detect botters and insta-ban them along with gil-spammers.

(Add to the above great dreamers dreams) :)

- Added option to hide companions
- L2 + R2 is now a new crossbar section
- Can now hide helm from chest + head gear

- Armoury Bonus is now granted for Guildleves, Guildhests, and Dungeons. (To give another means of consistently leveling "alt" classes.)

- Autocast for pet actions can now be toggled on and off individually.

- All non-artifact/relic gear is now dyeable.

And if we were going for really out there dream patch notes:

- A second Job has been added for each of the current class other than Arcanist (since they already have two!).

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- Players will have longer Duty Finder cooldown times if they are kicked by vote

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Lets kick all bad Tanks and those Tanks will even have to wait longer. Wow punishment for playing a class everyone needs but noone wants to playthemselfs (y)

Render/Display priorities have been added e.g. choose which has higher rendering priority on your system/PS3; peoples pets/minions or actuall enemies

Yeah Im fed up of standing in FATES seeing peoples stupid Pokemon and Cait Sith dolls etc appear around me but not things I can kill!

A way to cure the 90k bug!

- Players are now able to interact with Quest giver NPCs while mounted. This also applies to vendors. Players still have to dismount to interact with objects/destinations in the world.
- A function to choose what quests to track/untrack is now available. Players may track up to 7 quests simultaneously.
- An option to auto skip cut scenes in Duties is now available and shown upon the first cut scene
- Players may now use the /tell function even if they are in Duties. The Free Company button is no longer greyed out and is visible even if a player is participating in a Duty.
- The possibility to compare gear rewards and gear from vendors and market with your current gear is now available.
- Tool tips on mouse-over have been added to the game which explain most of the icons, abbreviations and functions on the HUD.
- Your retainer's bag is no longer split into 7 small bag but shown as one large bag and is also upgradeable for a fee.

- The World Map has been revamped with new functions:
¤ Players can see available quests, leves, FATEs in other regions than the one the player is currently at
¤ Hovering over quests on the map also reveals the recommended player level for that quest
¤ Right clicking on the map zooms you out to a land view, and then to a world view

Just a few. Probably forgot a lot, adding later.

Spam/Bot control

- Teleport hack no longer works.
- The ability to blacklist a player by right-clicking their character or name on chat has been added.
- Report function has been improved and is no longer behind multiple clicks.
- URLS are now censored in shouts and yells. [Can harm FC recruiting a bit, but the spam is a bigger issue at the moment]

Combat/Duties

- AoE damage check is now client-side [this is prone to hacking, but the current AoE lag is worse than that]. Overall instance server lag has been reduced.
- It is no longer possible to obtain rewards from duties without enough contribution. As a result, no Duty Finder penalty is applied, if leaving a dungeon joined in-progress within 3 minutes of joining.
- Hard Primals only drop weapons suitable to party members.
- Waiting times for Amdapor Keep have been reduced.
- The game can now detect if a boss is being exploited. [Not everything can be detected, but if the boss script breaks, it can be detected]. If exploiting is found, the duty is automatically ended.

General

- Render priorities have been changed to prevent enemies from disappearing.
- Random disconnects should occur less frequently [this can never be completely fixed]
- /visor now works for cowls.

- You will no longer receive rewards from any Duty unless you were on the threat table for the last boss.
No

- Kick vote functionality has been added to the Duty Finder and will require a 3/4 or 6/8 majority.
Whats the point, if that person doesn't accept your put back to the top of the list, stop being impatient just to grind your already lvl 50 character

- Players will have longer Duty Finder cooldown times if they are kicked by vote, or leave before a Duty is finished.
This is stupid as at times players have to leave for being bound by duty or are forced to leave due to countdown and being in a cut-scene

- Players who frequently initiate kick votes will have dramatically increased cooldowns for initiating kick votes, which reset to their maximum length upon entering a dungeon.
This is Garbage, wanting to kick someone and playing the game is two separate things even if there was a kick system

- Immediately following the completion of a Duty in the Duty Finder, you may choose to honor your teammates for being helpful or friendly. Players with a sufficient honor ratio for their latest 30 Duties will receive increased tomestone and extra gil rewards.
Go back to playing LoL, its one of the worst player profiling

- You may now hide the helmet of any Heavy armor set.
Could of sworn this was already implemented in beta 4, if its different for heavy armor, then i agree with you

- Blacklist and Report Spam options has been added to the context menu which opens when a name is right-clicked or selected in the chat window.
AGREED!

- Fantasia is now purchasable from the Mog Station.
Nope, dont turn this game into a micro transaction IN ANY WAY.

Blacklisting/Reporting
Inter-server Blacklist added
Blacklisting/Reporting available from chat via right click

Chocobo
Auto-dismount when entering town
Auto-dismount when talking to a quest NPC
Auto-discard companion when whistle used and automatically switch to riding more (and the other way around by using a green)

FATE
Display priority revised: Monster > Team > other players > companions, summons, minions...

Other
Retainers are now available in any sanctuary
Repair price have been reduced (or item durability improved)

- More gears like Colesium sets.