Overhaul or tweaks?

[Seif]

Considering the time between a large scale update and how much the team is hyping it. Sounds like a massive overhaul to me.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember SE blowing a lot of smoke up my ...things about the incoming quests. Also they were suspiciously excited about the streamlining of crafting that took ages to do. (so far I've noticed that they removed only one step)

I can hardly blame them for advertising their own game but personally to me their word is worth a lot less than before the hyped patches arrived.

NMs got the same treatment. A lot of writing about them but in the end they were just same monsters with bigger hp bars. (which was to be expected though)

[Xatsh]

They said it will be a big download; because there will no doubt be a lot of file replacing.

You are exactly right they are replacing alot of the files that where used for the battle system

[kukurumei]

Small things together can lead to large things, but given the amount of time spent...well...optimistic or pessimistic is the same side of the coin.

And given the track record of FF14...more pessimistic.