Thread: 2.35 Patch Notes Discussion Thread

Originally Posted by Amelia_Pond_Behemoth

I'm not a fan of how preformed alliances were implemented. From how it sounds, you can't enter as a partial group. You gotta go all or nothing.

Likely to be one of the items they adjust in 2.38 or 2.4 (Can't remember which one Yoshi said was going to have the Duty Finder tweakage). Seems they just wanted to get it implemented then iron it AND FLs out in the upcoming patch(es). Just means that for now you and 2 friends will just each have to start up a PF and Ally up once each one fills. I bet they fill decently quick especially since you won't have to stick with the generic 2-2-4 party makeup. No more LotA with a bunch of bored/afking tanks lol

Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Do you really want an entire alliance wearing i45-49 stuff in ST? Honestly, I think this is a needed change.

I don't get why people don't just go spiritbond in the open world. It's easy and nobody has to carry you.

Because it's painfully slow compared to binding in a dungeon. Maybe if Square were to make spiritbinding less of a grind or at least bearable, we wouldn't have this issue.

Do you really want an entire alliance wearing i45-49 stuff in ST? Honestly, I think this is a needed change.

ST has a requirement of IL 70 iirc, so that's not something they'd be able to do there (at least not with ALL their gear). The example was referring specifically to LotA and Pharos.

Regarding ST though, something that probably ought to be done all around the board is that gear swaps should be prevented if they would bring you below the dungeon's IL requirement... that or gear swaps in instances should be prevented outright.

I don't get why people don't just go spiritbond in the open world. It's easy and nobody has to carry you.

Because the open world doesn't drop you i100 gear, oils for i110 gear, or allagan tomes. It's not hard to figure out...

MMOs provide a lot to do. People wanna multitask.

Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Because it's painfully slow compared to binding in a dungeon. Maybe if Square were to make spiritbinding less of a grind or at least bearable, we wouldn't have this issue.

Uh? I get together with 2-3 people in my FC and we can spiritbind a set in about 30 minutes. o.o

Maybe you're just going to the wrong places.

Originally Posted by Fynlar

Because the open world doesn't drop you i100 gear, oils for i110 gear, or allagan tomes. It's not hard to figure out...

MMOs provide a lot to do. People wanna multitask.

True. I just can't stand the thought of making a bunch of people carry me so I can SB.

I can do that on my own time.

Yes yes, sad that you can't SB in a dungeon anymore...

... but maybe SBing ilvl 70+ gear is a more worthwhile investment? The Grade IV rates have been 'altered' for these appearently.

I don't understand why they reduced rank B HP. At the first day of patch 2.3 i knew nothing about hunts, met lvl 50 monster (Stinning Sophie) and killed it. I was pld50 with class-job gear only equipped. The only ileveled item i had was i70 sword. I killed it solo in 7 minutes with my rank 8 chokobo as a healer.
So, single players could kill rank b alone with chokobo assistance before 2.35 w/o aid of other players, but there was no reasons t do this - much time, risk of death, etc

Originally Posted by Kaisha

The alliance functionality setup is about as half-baked as I was expecting. Can't even use it for Frontlines.

Here's to hoping 2.38 expands more on it to allow partial alliances (and add Frontlines) and that it isn't that far off of an update.

2.35 took essentially 5 weeks (+a couple of days since they don't patch over weekends) to drop after 2.3 so it's reasonable to guess that 2.38 would be the last week of September. The lack of full alliance for FLs is likely due to the potential imbalance issues that could come up (Full healer alliance anyone?). It's something they need to think about a little more than just fully ally queing into PvE raids since there's 48 people other than your own alliance in a FL match.