Preliminary patch notes up.

[Pomelo]

The crafting and gathering stuff really confuses me.
Especially all those new gathering actions xD I have the best stuff for MIN and BTN at the moment ...but only because gathering was so "easy." But we'll see!

Loving the spell speed change for HoT's. Det nerf is a bit sad, cos Im loving my MNK's high auto attacks already >.< But the skill speed buff is kinda good for everyone, and makes sense now their is more ways for people to gain tp.

[Garlyle]

Tomestone/high-level roulette stuff

It's important to note:
1. We already know the roulette numbers for Tomestones, and those alone are pretty high. Trials roulette is throwing you something like 80; main story's giving a lot. We don't know the numbers for dungeons themselves, but it's not unreasonable to expect high values.
2. For new players - which is where the major Tomestone concerns exist - the main story is going to be throwing gear at them to get them geared up during the 2.1-2.55 events. Tomestones are less vital now for getting through content than they were previously.
3. Most tomestones for new players also actually came from the new player bonuses.

That said, I'm seriously all for allowing High Level roulette with only partial dungeon lists... although I suppose they don't want people skipping over dungeons because they're unpopular or whatever.

[Imakun]

I have another concern with the new actions.

All of the new actions are exclusive to Jobs, so classes don't get any? I was kinda expecting they'll balance this out with 3 on class then 2 on jobs but... this kinda further decrease the value of classes in Heavensward. I mean... WHM gets Stone III and Aero III? Doesn't that kinda beats the purpose of WHM being a job of increasing a Conjurer's Healing capability? (save for Holy, since that is a signature spell)

I do hope this doesn't mean they're totally abandoning classes.
I'm still wishing for second jobs for existing classes.

DEvs said multiple times in the past that they're phasing out classes. Jobs only from now on, as it should have been from the very beginning >_>

Excited for the patch notes, still a lot of things are pretty unclear. Friday can't come soon enough!

[Seraphyna]

Players will now be rewarded experience points upon completing Duty Roulette: Main Scenario, Duty Roulette: Trials, or Duty Roulette: High Level prior to level 60. However, players who do not use duty roulette to join level 50 duties associated with the above roulettes will not receive experience points.

So there's no point in running:

The Wanderer's Palace
Amdapor Keep
Pharos Sirius
Copperbell Mines (Hard)
Haukke Manor (Hard)
Brayflox's Longstop (Hard)
Halatali (Hard)
The Lost City of Amdapor
Hullbreaker Isle
The Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard)
The Stone Vigil (Hard)
Snowcloak
Sastasha (Hard)
The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard)
The Keeper of the Lake
The Wanderer's Palace (Hard)
Amdapor Keep (Hard)
Cape Westwind
A Relic Reborn: The Chimera
A Relic Reborn: The Hydra
Battle on the Big Bridge
The Dragon's Neck
The Bowl of Embers (Hard)
The Howling Eye (Hard)
The Navel (Hard)
Thornmarch (Hard)
The Whorleater (Hard)
The Striking Tree (Hard)
Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Hard)
Battle in the Big Keep
The Chrysalis
The Steps of Faith
and some others


We can't queue main, trial, or low level roulette with friends. If we want items from a certain dungeon/trial, sure you can run it but you get no experience from it. Or you can queue roulette and pray you get your choice and experience.

Seriously, who made this awful decision?

[Ultimatecalibur]

We can't queue low level roulette with friends. If we want items from a certain dungeon/trial, sure you can run it but you get no experience from it. Or you can queue roulette and pray you get your choice and experience.

Seriously, who made this awful decision?

Its to prevent powerleveling by speedrunning dungeons/trails you overgear. If they didn't do it, you would get a repeat of the DD/AV first room runs.

[Nalien]

The limit break for ranged physical DPS has been changed to an attack to all targets in a straight line before the caster.

I really wonder how they're going to differentiate this from mage Limit Break...

Really hoping it'll work like various boss mechanics, where damage ends up being spread across hit players. Give it a potency below melee Limit Breaks, but above mages and it occupies a nice little spot. For a single target, you use the melee Limit Break for maximum damage. For a lot of adds (four+) you get more out of the mage Limit Break. For two or three enemies? That ranged Limit Break could pay off.

[LaylaTsarra]

They made no mention of Armory relief which doesn't make me happy. No place to put things now let alone with new classes coming.

[shane239]

Do we know whether /playtime will include time from 1.0, I'm expecting no but hey.

[LlenCoram]

Do we know whether /playtime will include time from 1.0, I'm expecting no but hey.

Gods can you imagine? I already decided to never use it, if it counted 1.0 playtime too I'd have to run away from it screaming.

[lololink]

So much inuendo in the new auto translate sentences ...