Thread: 2.05 Breakdown/Letdown

Originally Posted by ReplicaX

They must have been hiding in a tree, afraid of doing the already easy fight to begin with.

I still don't understand why that was even a thing....

I'm a scholar, I wouldn't even bat an eyelid if I had to tank that first boss. He's a total pushover.

did cm/prae get their tomes nerfed at all? or are they still 100

Originally Posted by Wobble

This is what I'm curious about "number of areas where you can acquire Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy and Mythology will be increased" I seen nothing in the notes that said any new areas unless I missed it?

Wanderer's Palace now gives Myth and more Phil. That's the only addition they made (while upping Myth on Garuda and Titan), which is a little disappointing.

I was hoping for a little more variety myself, but I never did understand why WP didn't give Myth until now.

To be fair I think this is a language and comprehension barrier between regular players, and the development team, because so far everything is exactly what I expected. I never saw this is as some miracle patch to increase weekly cap. I saw it as a hot fix (aka bug fix patch) to help stressed servers, moderately distribute load over instances, and discourage speed running to moderately decrease tensions between speed runners and first time story players. The money dropped was to help offset repair costs, as well as again discourage speed runs, which combined with the previous fix to lower costs of dark matter should do a fair amount to help on a weekly basis offset the overall cost of the tomestone grind for those with no other source of income for repairs. (though of course without request for repairs this is still only a partial fix)

Similarly the changes to miner/botany experience isn't to make things easier for the player per-se, but to lower the threshold of entry, encouraging more players to try entry level gathering for longer thereby increasing legitimate goods on the market, offsetting the effects of RMT botting.

I could go on, but the short of it is that as a developer myself, so far everything is exactly what I anticipated based on the notes. Which I thought were perfectly clear and not that ambiguous.

I like the changes. AK was easy and now it gives more money and tomes, yay. I hit 31 botanist and miner this past week and now it'll be even easier, yay.

Really don't understand why the tree exploit was even used either... A decent tank that can keep the adds off your healer, which isn't even difficult, is all that fight requires.

Originally Posted by Zeille

I like the changes. AK was easy and now it gives more money and tomes, yay. I hit 31 botanist and miner this past week and now it'll be even easier, yay.

Really don't understand why the tree exploit was even used either... A decent tank that can keep the adds off your healer, which isn't even difficult, is all that fight requires.

Yeah, I don't know either. I could easily take 6+ hits from the adds as a BLM, and kill them in 5 spells.

Originally Posted by Gilraen

I don't know, I don't feel the slightest bit offput by any of it. When I did my first runs of Castrum Meridianum and Preatorium I didn't feel at all like I was doing a dungeon until the bosses. Felt more like a tour and I'd lost my program somewhere (can't tell from the players without a program). Now that the mobs all drop gil it should also be more profitable to slow down and have some fun in these things. Seriously, slow down! The game isn't going anywhere!

agree wholeheartedly