Thread: 2.2 : what I understood from live letter XII

I've seen a lot of things coming, positives, negatives, trolls, elitists, casual-friendly, etc...

Yet there is always a blind trade of text walls and noone tries to understand each other's point of view it seems...

2.2 is coming, and it brings a lot of things, some good, some less good. Let's talk a bit about what I understood from the live letter :

New content :

Let's start with the HM dungeons and be quick about it : Brayflox and Halatali. Though there might be some more rooms to clear in the depth of Halatali coliseum, I don't know what could bring us again in this annoying goblin's home. I hope he won't attract a dragon's hell on me again (see 2nd boss of story). I'm looking forward to it but not expecting very much to be honest. Mechanics to learn and the trick should be done

Then comes the new dungeon : Amdapor Township. It has been advertized as the most difficult dungeon released yet. As things are going now, I'm planning on a il-70+ requirement, but the new tomes might lead to a il-85+ to make the new tomes worth anything. For that we've seen, there will be a new race of trash mobs, some big butterflies. No idea of what they will do though. Then usual shrooms/slugs.
The Pharos was great and taught us than bashing a dungeon can be worse than being at minimum item level. I hope the township will be the same tbh..

The new coil turns.. Their background looks amazing, but as I still have to down twintania, I won't be able to see it for a while No idea of what to expect. Difficulty yeah, but new item level tier so they may just be scaled well and be a reachable objective (at least the turns 6 and 7). Looking forward to hearing more about it in the next live letter.

Primals :
=> The good king Moggle mog XII EX : urgh, more AoEs everywhere.... I really hope there is something which can be down to reduce the lag coming from graphic overcharge Joke aside, we saw it coming, and we'll take the challenge. 1.23 players said current king was a joke, I hope they'll find this one more appealing.

=> Leviathan looks awesome. New tanking mechanics (tanking a beast outside of the arena), new mechanics... A must-see at least.
The devs announced 2-3 wipes for an average party, so there should be around the same ammount of phases to go through, and that makes some nice mechanics to expect. And those who would be decieved, challenge the EX version and get your wall to hit
Announced as the hardest primal battle ever seen at the moment, it promises to be very unforgiving, but the reward is also promising to be great (maybe a really good intermediate tier between T5 and next allagan weapons)


New tomes :
We don't know what the name will be yet. They will unlock a new item level tier (unknown yet, let's bet on il-110 because that way CT turn 2 would be il-100) and will probably drop on Amdapor Township and T6-9. They will certainly be capped with a 300 per week lockout (same as myth in 2.0). It will probably allow to buy the AF2 set. Expected to be a new way to improve the relic as well.

Myth will probably be unlocked then, becoming the new farm tier after the philo ones.

Changing features :
=> Dhorme Chimera and Hydra in DF : no more 3 hurs waiting to get these done for new players/alts. A good thing really, though they will get a lot more trolls now.

=> T1-5 unlocking : The farm mode will begin. There are pros and cons.. Though the main thing to look at is the following : il-90 will certainly bacome the new DL basis for the brand new end-game. So people will actually NEED to get this il-90 gear as soon as possible to try their luck/skill on the new challenging content.
Also, the "nerf" coming is still unclear, and there might still be a way to clear the turns as it was in the very first days. We'll see with time.
Anyway, the new recipes for crafting might leave this allagan gear useless..

crafting :
New recipes. No infos on it yet, but il-90 is likely to come, with mythology crafting materials and stuff. This will add some more variety to the gear building, and materias will give a good headstart for the new coil. See it as Vanya vs healer/caster DL for example. Vanya is STILL relevant even at T4.
Also, the vanity system will help a lot the crafters' world. The diing economy might get a nice boost in the incoming patch. That's my humble opinion though..


TL, DR : (also, conclusion)
stop the hate flood and wait to see what is coming. If things are turning bad, there won't be a few random complaints but a lot of quiting. The game is still under construction, and its content is getting better patch after patch. There are background, easy fights, hard fights, casual friendly content to explore. Many things to do for many people. What are you doing out of the dungeons ? pillar at Mor dhona ?

It may be silly, but I took the time to explore Mor Dhona entirely (or at least I began). There are some really beautiful places I found and I had never paid attention to in my leveling tunnel. I also spent hours playing with Fleeces in Eastern Thanalan. Entertaining in the game is not only bashing mobs

Originally Posted by Phe

not sure if i missed it - will it be possible yet to do CT with pre-built 18 people alliances?

are they able to master this extraordinary technical challenge yet?

I'm really wondering how useful this will actually be. I mean for the few big FC that have enough people to do it, it will be great. But for the rest of us, its not really going to help anything. Right now you can't even get a full party together before someone cries "just DF it."

Originally Posted by Phe

Yea that means that you are probably not in a big FC, neither the poster above you.

Well, i am, together with 50+ other people in my FC and internal 24 people (not 18 - my bad) runs were highy anticipated and we still can't wait to do it!^^

Support from other big FCs would be highly appreciated.

I'm also looking forward to the day i can finally have a run without foreign people yelling at each other...

Don't take me wrong ^^ I said no need because there is already the fishing method to make FC runs.
That said, it would be good to make runs with 23 friends without ruining solo queues

Originally Posted by LoLo

Everything in the OP sounds boring and already done before. I guess I need to wait for the expansion to actually do something fun and different. I'm bored of Hard mode versions of old content. I play MMO's because of open world mechanics. Even though FFXIV 1.0 was broke, at least everything wasn't instances and it had a sense of exploration. Yes I know about copy and paste areas, but the areas we have now are small and feel like lobbies to wait for duty ques. BORING.

you surely know that open world 1.xx-like is impossible due to PS3 restrictions ? :/
And all I said was only what had been already said in live letter, not the actual content we'll get. There is still room for more open world content (I hope so anyway)