Patch 3.26 what are we expecting to see?

[myahele]

PvP changes most likely. I think they're also going to give rewards for premade 4v4 matches

[LadyVal]

Mostly PvP changes. Dark Knight will get Dark Farts reduced from 5 second recast to 3 seconds though.

Just eat some Taco Bell, it removes the recast timer completely.

[Jetstream_Fox]

They did make pvp adjustments.
But they were pretty drastic, so they wanted to give people more pregame to get used to that before diving right in to where it counts.

Any changes to a classes skill set regardless of gametype is drastic, they likely are running controlled battles using the adjusted skills to see if they change the way the class works. But that doesn't apply and always carry over into the mass uncontrolled environment (we can look no further than WM here) I don't know how many people are actually playing PvP considering it's more dead than any American Idols career at this point on Jenova, but two week intervals for adjustments doesn't seem enough data would be gathered. There is no reason why these adjustments couldn't have been implemented back in 3.25 whatsoever.

It looks like PvP is going to boil down to players getting adjusted, then getting new tweaks to skills, awkwardly fumble around to feel those skills out, get more tweaks, and then the process repeats itself. Given I don't play PvP because of the reason mentioned above, this patch and any PvP update is just a waste.

[Canadane]

I don't know how many people are actually playing PvP considering it's more dead than any American Idols career at this point on Jenova

Quite a bit.
https://xivpvp.com/feast
And these are only matches with people who have the xivpvp app.

Lots of people say PvP is dead, but it's never really been the case.

[LadyVal]

Lots of people say PvP is dead, but it's never really been the case.

I agree with this, and I think it appears dead because PvP is so concentrated on specific servers. On Siren we lost almost all of our major PvPers because they all moved to Gilgamesh, because others moved to Gilgamesh from other servers for PvP and attracted more attention and grew exponentially. So on Siren you almost never see serious PvP in PFs (and even most PvP LSes are dead because the PvP "regulars" left) but if you queue your queue time will be super short- and you'll probably be playing a match that is all but one or two people from Gilgamesh.

[Mature]

A6s nerf well I didn't expect that.

[brodiah]

Um, slightly off topic and I apologise but can't find an answer..

What happened to lv30-40 PvP?

[LadyVal]

Um, slightly off topic and I apologise but can't find an answer..

What happened to lv30-40 PvP?

It was removed when they launched The Feast. Now all PvP is at least level 50.

[brodiah]

It was removed when they launched The Feast. Now all PvP is at least level 50.

Thanks so much for letting me know

[Alexftw]

Lol they had to nerf a6s today. wasted 1 hour stupidly clearing it tuesday for nothing then xD. A6s was already not too hard. You could clear with 1-3 deaths. now its gonna be totally easy mode xD.