Preliminary patch notes are up

[Lemuria]

Some good changes here... but why'd they have to mess with my Shield Swipe?!

Is now an ability and does not trigger global cooldown.
Recast time has been adjusted to 15 seconds.
Potency has been reduced from 210 to 150

In short, it's weaker, and has a potentially much higher cooldown. All for the sake of taking it off GCD? GCD is like 2 seconds. Having it on the GCD was a GOOD thing from my perspective! This change is pretty devastating in my eyes, because it really hurts the whole point of having a Paladin who can freely shield swipe to pacify targets using AoE.

...to say little about how this is going to reduce our overall damage as a result. Gee, thanks SE. If you wanted to kill off my Paladin for good, why didn't you just give her Mijin Gakure, so she can at least blow herself up at the same time?

[Kallera]

Some good changes here... but why'd they have to mess with my Shield Swipe?!In short, it's weaker, and has a potentially much higher cooldown. All for the sake of taking it off GCD? GCD is like 2 seconds. Having it on the GCD was a GOOD thing from my perspective! This change is pretty devastating in my eyes, because it really hurts the whole point of having a Paladin who can freely shield swipe to pacify targets using AoE.

...to say little about how this is going to reduce our overall damage as a result. Gee, thanks SE. If you wanted to kill off my Paladin for good, why didn't you just give her Mijin Gakure, so she can at least blow herself up at the same time?

Mijin Gakure would involve giving paladin dps, which paladin cannot have, even in death.

[Nadirah]

OGCD and a cd means likely don't need to block to use, making it useful to OT, where you couldn't use it at all.

[Khalithar]

[2.0] In an effort to curb RMT activities, the number of friend requests players can send per day (Earth time) will be limited to 5.
* The friend request counter will be reset daily at midnight (Earth time).

Hopefully this will make them less annoying for the friend request anyway.

RMT can make an infinite number of characters, so unless it's 5 invite account wide, this is a pretty bad fix. It should have been gated behind leveling the character past a certain point or setting friend list only tells.

[Lemuria]

OGCD and a cd means likely don't need to block to use, making it useful to OT, where you couldn't use it at all.

There is nothing in the patch notes which impies that it does not require blocking. Even if that is the case, as a main tank it's considerably weaker as a result of this change since it won't be as freely available. After all, it wouldn't be the first ability which has an activation clause. We've had Mercy Stroke for a long while now.

[Neri]

OGCD and a cd means likely don't need to block to use, making it useful to OT, where you couldn't use it at all.

Or it will be like drk's reprisal. Ogcd, and a cd.

[Nep_Nep]

Wish that ability to buy i120 upgrades with poetics came faster. Like when I was leveling my classes. xD oh well.
I don't exactly like the idea of using seals to buy upgrades again. But eh I'll get used to it. Glad void ark allows us to get stuff too.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

sure if you like that every player has every item and everything is common.

But this changes won`t even come close to that. I seriously can`t belive some people. A reasonable change is suddenly an automatic handout... This kind of extremism about content changes needs to stop.

[SchalaZeal]

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.

Nobody sold the i180 crafted gear because it cost insane prices. Tripling the amount per scrip is gonna reduce the price by at least 2x, and with law being exchangeable for mats (and everyone who's been there since HW not needing law for anything), the price should lower even more. Making the i180 possibly below 15 million now.

[Gamer3427]

So much content. So many changes. So high excitement levels....