PSA: Livestream including patch 3.4 stuff tonight.

[loreleidiangelo]

Coming in 3.4: two new faceroll expert dungeons, a new Allagan Tomestone currency with a ridiculous identifier and a 450/week cap, and the final wing of the Alexander raid, complete with armchair raiders commenting on it's overt amount of/lack of difficulty despite not actually setting foot in there themselves; more at 11.

(Disclaimer: I did not actually watch the stream to know this)

[Erendis]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...36#post3831436

[Xlantaa]

The Great Gubal Library (Hard)

What? I'm confused here...

And...

Xelphatol, okay this is Ala Mhigo Area, so it is great!

Recast Time Reset Upon Wipe
When challenging raids and trials, timers will now be reset upon the party being wiped out. However, if we find instances of this being abused in any way to take advantage of a battle, then we may disable this feature.

Holy shit, at last!

[Brady672]

I'm interested to learn about the platoon/squadron feature, like the kind of content you'll be allowed to do with them, what kind of limitations it'll have, the kinds of rewards you'll get for using them etc.

But most importantly to me, will be able to select the race/gender/appearance for our squadmates, because I really want to have an army of fashionable soldiers.

[MeoTwister5]

Did they mention the ilvl of the new tome gear? Based on the info it seems safe to say this is the last tome gear cycle for 3.x until the new expac.

[Derio]

Yea hopefully the next announcement gives more details of platoons

[loreleidiangelo]

...am I just super dense, or am I correct in failing to see any way that the resetting of cooldowns upon a wipe can be abused???

EDIT'S UGLY WINGMAN: their "Diadem revamp" was really just adding higher ilevel garbage to it? Whaaaaat.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Did they mention the ilvl of the new tome gear? Based on the info it seems safe to say this is the last tome gear cycle for 3.x until the new expac.

No, but SE is always predictable. It'll likely go...

Dungeon gear: ilvl 245
Crafted gear: ilvl 250 (This we know)
Tomestone gear: ilvl 260
Raid gear: ilvl 270

And yes, I think this will be the last set we see until the expansion.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

...am I just super dense, or am I correct in failing to see any way that the resetting of cooldowns upon a wipe can be abused???

EDIT'S UGLY WINGMAN: their "Diadem revamp" was really just adding higher ilevel garbage to it? Whaaaaat.

They postponed the revamp to 3.5 because it would have delayed 3.4 otherwise.