It doesn't rain in Eastern Thanalan

[Mjollnir]

I haven't been back to Camp Wet-to-the-Bone since the patch; no more constant sideways thunderstorms now? Awww...

Oh, 'Showers' are still there, just very little 'Rain'.

[Zumi]

Well it rained but at midnight again which is the wrong time this is the 2nd time since the servers have been up we got rain but its always at midnight which is the wrong time.

[dragonflie]

There was rain just now in Eastern Thalanan, but the vista didn't activate when I was there at 7AM.

[Leknaat]

It was just raining in e.than during the 00:00-8:00 window. we tried to get it in the 4 second window befrore weather changed but it didn't work D:

[Zalast]

It does in fact 'Rain' in Eastern Thanalan. I spammed emotes all during the 12am-8am timeblock during Rain and got nothing.

[Jynx]

This is totally what people wanted when they said they wanted to explore the open world.

I'm utterly shocked that they either intended this to be a waiting game (Like many things the game seems to enjoy doing such as making us wait for FATES), or just lack the foresight to understand that making the system weather dependant. Sometimes I just don't understand where such a neat idea giving people a half decent reason to look around the world and had a good chance to jam some lore in there as well.

Then suddenly someone must have piped up and said that it needed to be dependant on something silly like weather...seriously.

[Nalien]

It does in fact 'Rain' in Eastern Thanalan. I spammed emotes all during the 12am-8am timeblock during Rain and got nothing.

Don't worry, I'm sure a community rep will pop by sooner or later and inform us that, as well as the right time, weather, facial expression and emote, we also need the right Job, gear and race/gender! They are selling Fantasia potions now after all, so when the Sightseeing Log says "Such were the fisher's words, and I would see as she saw.", that's obviously an indication that you need to be on Fisher and potentially get a sex change. You also probably need to be the only person there, none of the entries mention a large gathering of people, after all.

Were people seriously defending this earlier?

[Crimson-Falcon]

its a desert so expect it to not rain a lot there

while the goblet rain everyday O_O

[GurrenLagann]

its a desert so expect it to not rain a lot there

while the goblet rain everyday O_O

That doesn't explain the fact on why it showers (which is technically rain but harsher) more than rain.

[Yukiko]

This is totally what people wanted when they said they wanted to explore the open world.

I expected, no I hoped that sightseeing would be like Äther runs in 1.x
Maybe with nice Echo cutscenes...

I was too naive!