Thread: About Some 2.1 Details

2.1 Details in The Lodestone

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...7af43f3c43828a



Side Story Quest Preview (12/12/2013)

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...9798d594958db7



A Realm Rewoken's Main Page

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/spe..._Realm_Awoken/





is the Hildibrand Returns quest lines a main story quest or side story quest? it is listed as side story in two places and listed as main story at the Realm Rewoken page.



Guild Leve's


Shards awarded for completing fieldcraft leves have been increased.

what leves award shards? only item i have ever gotten from any fieldcraft leve is a Cordial.




Free Company Housing


Plot Pricing is outrageously over the top expensive. why?




Battle

The following changes have been made to actions and statuses:

Conjurer - Medica II.
why weaken this spell? for PvP purposes? i can understand that. but honestly the spell is already weak as it is. it already causes too much enmity for such a weak spell. and you make it weaker... why?



Thunder can no longer be used as an additional skill by Disciples of Magic.
i am just curious why do this? it does not seem significant.


Status affliction resistances will now begin counting after the last corresponding status affliction is received.
what does this even mean? can someone please explain this one to me? thank you.


Damage-over-time actions that target the ground such as Flaming Arrow and Shadow Flare will now break sleep and bind effects.
i don't understand how this is any different then what currently happens. i play with BRD in AK a lot. and their Flaming/Shadow Arrow has always broken sleep/bind effects.


In light of the above increase in EXP yield, link bonuses no longer apply in instanced dungeons so as not to affect enemy placement.
what are link bonuses? and how do they affect enemy placement?


The following changes have been made to pet actions:
When set to Obey and Steady, pets will only execute actions when commanded, and will remain in the Steady stance.
does this mean my Carbuncle won't even Gust on its own when using Obey now?




Items

Recipes for the following items have been changed:
Evoker's Trousers → Evoker's Waistclout
Summoner's Trousers → Summoner's Waistclout
you make them sound like belts now. lol -_-


Attributes for the following items have been changed:
Paladin's Trousers
Before: Physical Defense 69, Magical Defense 35
Before: Physical Defense 69, Magical Defense 35
typo? i don't see what the change is.

Before: Physical Defense 69, Magical Defense 35
Paladin's Trousers
Before: LNC, DRG
After: MRD, WAR, GLA, PLD
does this mean you have changed what classes are able to equip this item?


The number of NQ and HQ gathered items already in your possession is now displayed.

i am not sure what the purpose is of the picture you provided is.


When gathering, players may now discover items with the following properties:
Rare: Only one of these items can be obtained from this gathering point.
Hidden: This item cannot normally be obtained from this gathering point.
when or how exactly can a hidden item be obtained?


System

The number of items that need to be traded will now be displayed at the top of NPC trade windows.
what kind of trade you talking about? you mean the regular trade when turning in a quest?


Hotbars that are called by simultaneously holding LT + RT, or L2 + R2, can now be registered.
i am a PS3 player and don't even know what LT or RT is. do you mean L1 and R1? or maybe L3 and R3? also i don't understand this feature.

If the XHB control setting is set to "Toggle," XHB will become inactrivae when the new window pops.
i don't understand this either. please explain someone.


Actions, such as autorun or registering cross hotbars, that require L1 + LB to be held down simultaneously will be unavailable while L2 + R2 and LB + RB cross hotbars are activated.
again... what is LB and RB? why can't we just use what the crap the buttons are really called. no need to be vague. :/

It is no longer possible to access subcommands by pressing the confirm button with a character selected.
Subcommands can be accessed by right-clicking the mouse, or pressing the x button/ □ button on the gamepad/controller.
please don't contradict yourself. the X button IS the confirm button. can we or can we not open the sub-menu on a selected player with the X button? currently we can. and it's just awful.


A "Display log message" checkbox has been added to the emote menu.
Unchecking this box will hide emote messages from your log.
what log?




any help understand any or some of this is greatly appreciated.

hm. i did Mining all the way to 50 on nothing but leve's. i have repeated each several times. only item i got was the occasional Cordial. i didn't do many Botany ones before 2.1. and only did Fishing ones at Lv45 for a quick hop to Lv50. so i dunno. oh well.