Full Release Patch Notes - 3.1

[Silverbane]

(RiP BSM and CUL cuz only 2-3 recipes)

Look at what the ARM and GSM recipes require. Many require a mat that only BSM can make. So BSM is still alive.

[Cold_Raven]

[2.0] Items that dropped directly from boss enemies will now drop from treasure boxes in the following duties:

The Bowl of Embers (Extreme) / The Howling Eye (Extreme) / The Navel (Extreme) / Thornmarch (Extreme) / The Whorleater (Extreme) / The Striking Tree (Extreme) / Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)

...And when you do something "unsynched," you get no items from treasure boxes, isn't that right?

Does this mean no more unsynched Pony Farming? Have to have a full party and complete the Trial synched to level in order to have a change to get a Pony?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

[2.0] Items that dropped directly from boss enemies will now drop from treasure boxes in the following duties:

The Bowl of Embers (Extreme) / The Howling Eye (Extreme) / The Navel (Extreme) / Thornmarch (Extreme) / The Whorleater (Extreme) / The Striking Tree (Extreme) / Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)

...And when you do something "unsynched," you get no items from treasure boxes, isn't that right?

Does this mean no more unsynched Pony Farming? Have to have a full party and complete the Trial synched to level in order to have a change to get a Pony?

You always get the ponies from treasure boxes. What changed is the mats that drop from the boss now appears in the chest, so you can get them while unsynced.

[Colorful]

[2.0] Items that dropped directly from boss enemies will now drop from treasure boxes in the following duties:

The Bowl of Embers (Extreme) / The Howling Eye (Extreme) / The Navel (Extreme) / Thornmarch (Extreme) / The Whorleater (Extreme) / The Striking Tree (Extreme) / Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)

...And when you do something "unsynched," you get no items from treasure boxes, isn't that right?

Does this mean no more unsynched Pony Farming? Have to have a full party and complete the Trial synched to level in order to have a change to get a Pony?

Ponies will still be dropping from chests in undersized mode, it's just now chests will drop the crafting material required for the weapons too.

[Noxifer]

...And when you do something "unsynched," you get no items from treasure boxes, isn't that right?

Nope, completely the other way around. You get the treasure chests, but not the random loot from killed mobs. Like the crafting mats that occasionally drop from primals (Garuda feathers and whatnot). Which is why they decided to shove those crafting mats into the chests as well.



On another note... You guys know how their excuse for keeping glamours class-locked has been that they don't want tanks running around looking like mages and all that?

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry when looking at the screenshot they chose to use to demonstrate their multi-slot glamour system:

[Felis]

Nope, completely the other way around. You get the treasure chests, but not the random loot from killed mobs. Like the crafting mats that occasionally drop from primals (Garuda feathers and whatnot). Which is why they decided to shove those crafting mats into the chests as well.



On another note... You guys know how their excuse for keeping glamours class-locked has been that they don't want tanks running around looking like mages and all that?

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry when looking at the screenshot they chose to use to demonstrate their multi-slot glamour system:

But the Cowl is "all class" gear since 2.0 launch, not specific a DoM gear.

[Noxifer]

But the Cowl is "all class" gear since 2.0 launch, not specific a DoM gear.

I know that, and so does everyone who has argued against their "argument" since the beginning of glamour. But a cowl, having Int and Mind bonuses, is still mage gear. It's just that the majority of 1-49 mage gear (apart from dungeon drops) is categorized as All Classes instead of DoM. The whole argument is based on a premise that is clearly circumventable already -- in one direction. Tanks can look like mages, but mages can't look like tanks, or even wear the cloth shirts that DoW can wear. They're the most limited of all the role groups.

But the whole point of my post was... when their argument is that we "can't have tanks looking like mages", why use a cowl onto a tank chestpiece for your demonstration? Why not a cowl onto a caster chestpiece?

[WellFooled]

But the whole point of my post was... when their argument is that we "can't have tanks looking like mages", why use a cowl onto a tank chestpiece for your demonstration? Why not a cowl onto a caster chestpiece?

For Meliadoul Tengille cosplay I can only hope.

[Toguro]

[3.0] The following mounts can now fly:
Ahriman / Bomb Palanquin / Logistics System / Kirin / Magitek Armor / Gilded Magitek Armor / Draught Chocobo / Ceremony Chocobo / Amber Draught Chocobo

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

[2.0] The number of Allagan tomestones of Poetics required for the following items has been reduced:

[2.0] It is now possible to ride mounts other than the personal chocobo while your companion is summoned.

[Twilite]

Look at what the ARM and GSM recipes require. Many require a mat that only BSM can make. So BSM is still alive.

..But isn't it already like that? Every recipe for the most part has a mat or more that needs to be made by another craft.