Yoshida on Tomestone changes!

[kukurumei]

He mentions that 2.1 was delayed 1 month b/c of server congestion and initial release was November. Does that mean now they r back on track will we be getting 2.2 in February instead if March. Or will the one month delay continue as is and have a chance to further that delay with problems with 2.1. Thoughts?

Branch development means one branch won't effect another branch (not true, but that's theoretically) so 2.1 delayed 4 weeks does not mean 2.2 is not on track.

This is because the "trunk" is going at it's own rate and a "branch" is a freeze in features to be used.

Of course man power isn't free, and manpower taken to fix the server is manpower lacking from 2.1 which is of course manpower taken from the "trunk" and 2.2

Theoretically it averages out, and a 4week wait on 2.1 is a 2 week wait on 2.2, and 1week wait on 2.3, etc, as things catch up to speed.

Finally, if they're smart, they would be hiring people (with all the revenue they got) to get back on schedule.

[Ferr]

This was my post in the other thread.

This makes so much sense, so dont expect SE to do it.

[Pseudopsia]

Only myth gear, only coil exploration achievement from coil turn 1 (which you can get on the way to the boss). He doesn't want people catching up to him through his only means of gearing.

As long as he caps his weekly myth forever, no one will catch up to him. I still don't get why he's bothered by it, I would think only some hard core players running coil would be bothered by filthy casuals getting equivalent gear.

He could be easily running Coil with that gear, I'm more than a month behind him and my group almost beat turn 4 last week.

[NephHalp]

As long as he caps his weekly myth forever, no one will catch up to him. I still don't get why he's bothered by it, I would think only some hard core players running coil would be bothered by filthy casuals getting equivalent gear.

He could be easily running Coil with that gear, I'm more than a month behind him and my group almost beat turn 4 last week.

You can do turns 1-4 in full DL armour, it's far more about execution than anything else. Turn 5 however does have minimum HP requirements on the squishier classes due to fireball soaking.

[Tarushade]

Branch development means one branch won't effect another branch (not true, but that's theoretically) so 2.1 delayed 4 weeks does not mean 2.2 is not on track.

This is because the "trunk" is going at it's own rate and a "branch" is a freeze in features to be used.

Of course man power isn't free, and manpower taken to fix the server is manpower lacking from 2.1 which is of course manpower taken from the "trunk" and 2.2

Theoretically it averages out, and a 4week wait on 2.1 is a 2 week wait on 2.2, and 1week wait on 2.3, etc, as things catch up to speed.

Finally, if they're smart, they would be hiring people (with all the revenue they got) to get back on schedule.

Very nice explanation. Lets hope for the best

[TeaTimeBear]

Only 450! That does it, someone is gonna get a 70 page topic about this.. / 20 page handwritten in blood letter about why this is bad. >:U

[Tyl]

Im glad that there will b a limit incrase buuuuuut
I'd rather see it "stackable"

So if i go to hawaii for 2 weeks and come back and still got 1 week vacation i want to be able to play all night long getting my 900 stones i missed while i was in hawaii.
So i can decide to when i WANT to play, not when it makes sense to play...
But i guess i'll never see that =/

[saber_alter]

i'm curious, where did they say they were going to raise the myth cap? (too lazy to read through thread to find if someone else asked, i didn't see it in quote)

[Pseudopsia]

i'm curious, where did they say they were going to raise the myth cap? (too lazy to read through thread to find if someone else asked, i didn't see it in quote)

Expectations for Progression Until Patch 2.1

From the initial release of FFXIV: ARR, we predicted it would take roughly a month and a half for the most dedicated players to reach the Binding of Coil of Bahamut, and roughly two months for the general player population. Furthermore, we wanted players to acquire gear using Allagan tomestones of mythology in tandem with clearing the Binding Coil. This served as the basis for determining the rate at which tomestones can be earned, which is currently limited to 300 tomestones of mythology per week. With the release of patch 2.1, this limit will be increased to about 450 tomestones per week, for reasons which will be explained at the end.

Damn Yoshida and his flood of texts!

[Ryios]

Currently, we can kill garuda HM in 3:30, taking away another 20 seconds for que time/loading and cutscenes thats 156 myth an hour.

If they don't make new content drop more than 40 myth somewhere, or make it drop gear that's decent, then garuda HM will still be the fastest way to farm myth. And with each new piece of gear garuda HM dies faster. I reckon will be under 3 mins within the next week or two. And thats 1 tank, 1 healer, and 6 dps.