4.5 Patch notes are live

[RokkuEkkusu]

Good news:

The elemental ponies from the ARR EX primals and Nightmare can fly.

The Direwolf from Ixal Beast Tribe vendor can fly too.

I have 2000 mendacity tomes for all 3 of my active characters to enhance some their healing gear.

New battles to look foward too.

Bad news:

If I am reading right, the Cavalry Elbst of the Sahagin Beast Tribe vendor still cannot fly.

[Arkdra]

Blue Mage is live? Really?

No, next week.

Also good news, the Ivalice story has been completely, absolutely, unapologetically bad. Of course, I would say the same for just about every other raid for the first and 2nd tier, but they all manage to turn it around with their final tier and I suspect this won't be any different.

This is the only patch this whole expansion I've been legitimately excited for. Pumped to level blu and mess around with it's solo content. Excited to learn Mahjong. The story looks like it may finally be going somewhere and both orbonne and ghimlyt look cool, although who knows for sure until we actually do mechanics.

[Kahnom]

Mahjong,huh ...
I hope they add Poker in the future.

[Vahlnir]

Won't help much. I literally see PFs on day 1 of new content already expecting pros only.

Yes, it's ridiculous, but I do see it.

It'll help plenty. Better to ignore the day one requirements you mentioned seeing as there will also be plenty of learning parties both in the party finder and duty finder.

[Iromi]

I hope I don't have to lot against 23 people in the new raid for that new hair..haha. Hoping its a quest reward or something.

[Berethos]

i fell bad if i need to drag FC

My FC is legitimately planning "BLU nights" on Fridays, where a bunch of us plan on playing and leveling BLU together and seeing what shenanigans we can get up to.

No need to drag anyone.

[Ryaz]

Lots of good QoL changes. Especially the interactive item limit thing in houses. I can actually put food back on my restaurant tables.

The new custom deliveries guy doesn't do anything for me though. We still only get 12 per week and it's just another person to hit up for tomes. I'm guessing he was added more for the glam than function.

[Iscah]

The new custom deliveries guy doesn't do anything for me though. We still only get 12 per week and it's just another person to hit up for tomes. I'm guessing he was added more for the glam than function.

It's story content as well, and I think he's going to be interesting.

Also, once you've got each delivery person to max level, there's then a random chance they'll be asking for their "bonus item" that week. So more people = more bonus chances.

[Beckett]

Just out of curiosity, if the new hair style was a raid drop, which would you prefer:

Unique/Untradable and you can only roll if you don't have it, ensuring all farmers a drop over a long enough period of time
or
Tradable and available to put on the Market Board, ensuring that people who want it on day 1 can get it if they pay enough

[Theodric]

Just out of curiosity, if the new hair style was a raid drop, which would you prefer:

Unique/Untradable and you can only roll if you don't have it, ensuring all farmers a drop over a long enough period of time
or
Tradable and available to put on the Market Board, ensuring that people who want it on day 1 can get it if they pay enough

The latter. It'd sell for a decent amount on a consistent basis and the game is always in need of more gil sinks. The price would be atrocious initially, then settle after more and more of the items show up on the market board. Add in the server visit system being implemented later on and that's even more opportunities for people to purchase it.