The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

[RiceisNice]

Did they specifically state it was delayed because of development time? I don't remember seeing that. It seems like they delayed it in part because of Savage (and also probably to see what clear rates were like for Thordan, though that's just speculation on my part).

All we get is that the relic quest was intended for a 3.0 release, and delayed to 3.1, and then it won't be "ready" until 3.15. I mean no matter how you slice at it, it really doesn't make sense in the perspective of what we have; there was really no point to delaying the i170 step for so long when even upgraded laws were available since release, i200 wouldn't have been a problem for a 3.1 release because we've long had eso weapons What I could think of is that they don't want the i210 weapons to overshine thordan, but why then why was thordan put in the same patch cycle as a i210 relic, and the former was delayed for a 3.15 release (to the point it almost feels like it was delayed for the sake of delaying it, because realistically, 3.15 doesn't add much to the game, at all compared to the other 2.XY patches)

I mean this is just my perspective, but the ilvl placement of Thordan seems to a reactionary addition in an attempt to improve clear rates (and the devlopers more ore less said this in a liveletter, they had hoped that thordan weapons would help with clear rates), and honestly feels like they had shoved in an i205 weapon after they had already laid out a progression route, see the (lack of) WD increase between i205 and 210 for BRD/MCH, even though it wasn't the case for their unupgraded law (160) and expanse weapon (165). All of that could also go back to how they changed how the weapon acquirement works too (the lack of unID tomestones required to purchase a weapon, which could have dropped in say A2s)

[Alahra]

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Right, that's sort of my point—I don't think it was really development time at all, I get the impression it was all tied into progression/weapon availability in various ways. They were reacting all over the place to try to curb the difficulty of Savage and things like that. They also mentioned wanting the first two relic steps to be sort of "catch up" steps for newer 60s, and while those two steps probably could have been in 3.1 proper as a result, it may have just been easier from a logistics standpoint to release the quest all in one chunk.

I'm by no means saying that they executed all this well—they blundered pretty badly, in my view (and seemingly in Yoshi's). But I think they just had misguided reasons that lead them to push it back to 3.15 (and I think your hunch that Thordan was originally meant to be i200 is probably correct), rather than their not really being done.