Preliminary patch notes are up

[ElHeggunte]

Undersized isn't going away, but if you remember when you do undersized runs the reward chest is gone. The patch is moving direct drops, like ponies and materials, to the chest. If the drops are in the chest, but the chest is gone...

I was under the impression that when you undersized something everything stayed exactly the same except mobs no longer directly dropped items or gave exp. Reward chests were untouched from my understanding and I'm pretty sure I've seen people advertising undersized pony farms before.

Could be wrong and misremembering though since I don't do pony farms myself.

[Eul]

I see new dye and metal dye!

[Serilda]

Undersized isn't going away, but if you remember when you do undersized runs the reward chest is gone. The patch is moving direct drops, like ponies and materials, to the chest. If the drops are in the chest, but the chest is gone...

The reward chest is definitely present in undersized runs, that's the purpose of this change. Before, you received all of the chest loot (equips, ponies) undersized but not the direct drops. I can confirm this for sure as I ran Shiva EX undersized a week or two ago and my friend got the pony while I got the daggers.

From next week, you can receive all of the items undersized so everyone can continue farming ponies while the insane prices for the crafting mats settle back down.

[Phireblast]

So, I hear that with Law tomes being exchangable for Scrip mats, I hear this pretty much kills off the relevance of favors too? Some of my friends were NOT happy with that given they turned stuff in last night. I wouldn't know, I don't craft seriously.

[hagare]

Undersized isn't going away, but if you remember when you do undersized runs the reward chest is gone. The patch is moving direct drops, like ponies and materials, to the chest. If the drops are in the chest, but the chest is gone...

^wrong

I was under the impression that when you undersized something everything stayed exactly the same except mobs no longer directly dropped items or gave exp. Reward chests were untouched from my understanding and I'm pretty sure I've seen people advertising undersized pony farms before.

Could be wrong and misremembering though since I don't do pony farms myself.

^right

[Colorful]

So, I hear that with Law tomes being exchangable for Scrip mats, I hear this pretty much kills off the relevance of favors too? Some of my friends were NOT happy with that given they turned stuff in last night. I wouldn't know, I don't craft seriously.

They're quite costly, 1000+ tomes per. But they're also making the mats cheaper with favors, everyone can expect everything crafted to get cheaper I suppose. Same with the Thav gear, the items for that are getting an increase in drop rate from what I could tell.

[Eul]

From next week, you can receive all of the items undersized so everyone can continue farming ponies while the insane prices for the crafting mats settle back down.

I hope it will be same to Kingly Whisker too

[Fourbestintoner]

Rogue
Ninja Mutilate TP cost has been reduced from 80 to 70.
Shadow Fang TP cost has been reduced from 70 to 60.

Is that really all? I wanted a tp decrease on death blossom or potency increase and duality to crit or hit 3 times like barrage.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Everything looks really great for the most part. Two really disappointing things I saw:

The one tiny, almost insignificant AST adjustment and the fact that the new fancy dress/derby hat glamour are frickin' crafted items. I was under the impression they were going to be Gold Saucer items.

[Serilda]

I hope it will be same to Kingly Whisker too

The patch notes say Thornmarch is included so everyone should have reasonable access to fancy moogle weapons too soon