server maintenence ruins the "predict the fall of garuda" event?

[Orophen]

....Not to mention the odd things like the class-only armors, using complicated recipes that we're supposed to be staying away from. This whole patch just feels like a step back, honestly.

I dunno about the class-only armors. I suppose they don't want to ditch the armory system so they're attempting to keep classes as viable alternatives as anything else. But I do know for a fact that Yoshida's plan has always been to give us more complicated high end recipes after 1.20.

Addition of End Recipes after Patch 1.20

Setting Patch 1.19 as the “foundation” with simple recipes for basic crafters, we plan on adding on to the foundation with higher level End Recipes. (This will be adjusted based on the implementation of materia craft) Battle content will be further expanded, so dropped items will become stronger as well. As a result, if crafted items do not become stronger, crafted items will effectively die out. Therefore, we will add crafted items with very strong parameters in exchange for higher requirements such as multiple skills, rare ingredients, and multiple crafted ingredients. Gathering ingredients for these items will require help from another player and/or leveling up multiple classes. Essentially, crafting will be sharpened. To be successful, crafters will have to consistently pursue the newest recipes from patches, review where to obtain ingredients, observe market trends, and create items.

Link to the post is here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...704#post307704

[Fionlagh]

lol azury, wynn just burned you pretty bad there, cant let it end like that.. this thread has so much potential

[viion]

Greetings, fellow adventurers of Eorzea!

We are aware of your concerns where how much will this emergency maintenance going to affect the slaying of the primal Garuda (hard mode).

It has been decided that the maintenance hour will not be counted as part of the actual times and minutes it took to defeat Garuda. Please see here for more details.

Hope that this will clear up your concerns and please look forward to the announcement on the winning results.

This is good! And fair, as for the "some got to try before maint", everyone kind of hard that option, excluding those 2 servers, so not really fair to penalize for that, lucky its not.

Plus people planned strategies back when Garuda vid was up, and most people got to Garuda when Maint hit, i doubt anyone got a second run XD cant do much when its your first attempt and your rushing to avoid maint.

[Azurymber]

lol azury, wynn just burned you pretty bad there, cant let it end like that.. this thread has so much potential

he didn't burn me. I said "for the first few months".

Not my fault he can't read english.

SWTOR had a good start, then they got cocky and screwed it up which is why im playing this again.

[Sorrowscry]

servers down again...................... 4/26 10a.m. est

[TheVedis]

servers down again...................... 4/26 10a.m. est

doesnt matter since its already been downed at this point

[MeeYow]

So am I the only one that actually factored a pretty much inevitable emergency maint into my time?

Bawww. I was so close to.

[AngelAssassin]

I'd have to agree this contest is no longer vaild, even if they start after the maintenance ended there was still atleast an hour of active time before the maintenance how do you account for this?.. I'ts all messed up now... to lauche a 5 hour repair imedeately following a 5 hour is kind of point less why bother to eve turn the game back on, and why did they not get it right the first time?? More epic fail on behalf of SE... And I haven't noticed anyone else say it so I'm going to.. you can call me a conspiracy theorist, or crazy i don't care... I find it more than suspicious that after a patch bringing new content in which a contest involving timing of a kill is involved was mysteriously delayed another 5 hours and pushed back due to " an emergency maintenance " which coincidentally begins at North American prime time and ends right at Japanese prime time... I Call Shannanigan...