The Fields of Glory (Shatter)

[Nalien]

The one silver lining I can see to the reduced magic damage on Icebound Tomeliths, is that it will encourage more PVP on the part of casters and DRKs at activated tomeliths. While everyone else is killing the crystals, casters and DRKs should be killing other players.

I don't follow... Did they make Dark Knight deal magical damage when I wasn't looking? It's primarily physical damage last I checked... Most of its magical based attacks aren't even worth contemplating in this scenario, and the ones that are might as well hit the tomelith as well... I don't see how this would remotely shift Dark Knights focus at tomeliths, it's a slight nerf to Salted Earth and Dark Passenger, Unleash and Abyssal Drain really aren't worth using in PvP at all IMO, and Unmend is only viable in a ranged/chased situation... I'll still put Salted Earth down on a tomelith such that it damages the tomelith and enemy melee, I'll still aim Dark Passenger to Blind enemy melee and deal some damage to the tomelith... Same for Carnal Chill and potential Tar Pit (depends how you want to use that Heavy/HP drain).

It's a slight nerf to Dark Knight if anything, which I guess is fine given Dark Knight always handled better in Frontlines than Wolves' Den, but I really can't see this shifting focus away from the objective... My combos were physical, last I checked, all the magical based attacks worth a damn are on cooldowns and might as well still hit the tomelith...

[Beckett]

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Fair enough. I was going off of previous posts that were mentioning how DRK would be affected by this nerf, and didn't consider the specific abilities they'd be using on the Tomeliths.

[Eorzean_username]

Fair enough. I was going off of previous posts that were mentioning how DRK would be affected by this nerf, and didn't consider the specific abilities they'd be using on the Tomeliths.

Technically it is still an unneeded nerf on DRK (however trivial). It's more an example of how bizarre the change is (reducing Magic dmg, which has odd side-effects, rather than just scaling damage to Ice by distance, which would remove ranged safety ... etc).

[Cynric]

I apologize it took so long here is a more clear translation of the most recent Dev post:


We'd like to thank everyone for their feedback regarding The fields of glory! There was a lot of great feedback presented by our PVP community! In accordance with the long queue times we'd like to talk about our plans to remove GC restrictions. The adjustment for this problem took a lot of consideration from us. So in accordance with this feedback we've decided to decrease the length of the matches by reducing the amount of data to be collected to allow our players to queue sooner rather than later. We may consider removing the scoreboard to help achieve this change.

We saw a lot of great suggestions about making The Fields of Glory more pvp-oriented. In order to decrease the impact of the PvE element of destroying the Ice we've decided to decrease the amount of magical damage taken by Ice to encourage mages to make correct tactical decisions on the battlefield and target other players. We had to think very hard to make this adjustment. We had intended originally to increase the defense of the Ice against all ranged attacks however our current server limitations make this very difficult.

In order to promote quicker queue times among the Grand Companies we have decided to limit the number of players you may queue with at one time from a Full party of 8 to one other single player provided they are in the same Grand Company. We believe this change would allow more players to queue separately and thus giving more freedom for the switching of Grand Companies.

These adjustments will be active following the release of patch 3.35! Following patch 3.38 we will be releasing a new Frontlines mode. So we encourage all of our pvpers to rush for the current rewards as they will be unobtainable in the future! Please look forward to it.

We would like all of our players to continue giving us wonderful feedback on the forums and in game . All of your feedback is taken into consideration, then we ignore it and do our own thing. But we appreciate it all the same.


*(Not really a translation of anything new, just a bit of poking fun at the devs about the upcoming(terrible) adjustments in patch 3.35)

[Cleanse]

--- I fail --- lol.

[Cynric]

--- I fail --- lol.

Hey I mean grammar aside it at least feels like legit square logic right now.

[Ceasaria]

Following patch 3.38 we will be releasing a new Frontlines mode.

I want to say "already ?!"
Maybe it will be a new mode without GC restrictions.

[Dimitrii]

I want to say "already ?!"
Maybe it will be a new mode without GC restrictions.

There is no new mode in 3.38 he was joking. Although funny, that post might get you banned a few days if they consider it impersonation of an SE employee Cynric lol.

[Cynric]

There is no new mode in 3.38 he was joking. Although funny, that post might get you banned a few days if they consider it impersonation of an SE employee Cynric lol.

Baah Yeah you're right I'll add a little note at the bottom. The thought of that happening did cross my mind lol.


I did get quite the giggle out of people thinking it was legit. Though I figured the bottom line about ignoring us would be a dead giveaway.

[Februs]

There is no new mode in 3.38 he was joking. Although funny, that post might get you banned a few days if they consider it impersonation of an SE employee Cynric lol.

Well, technically the second season of Feast should start up sometime in the future, assuming SE hasn't completely done away with the entire concept of PvP by then; so, maybe we'll have that to play instead ...

I know a lot of people like to hate on Feast for one reason or another, but I'd much rather queue up for the second season of that, then keep going with the Shatter snooze-fest. Call me crazy, but I prefer my PvP to have actual PvP in it; so, I'm hoping that the players who feel the same way start to queue for Feast again once the second season starts up. The occasional match of Front Lines is nice and all, but having this as the only option for "PvP" is just plain demoralizing ...