Thread: Patch 2.38 Notes Up!

Just a few of my thoughts on this patch and why I'm not excited by it now the truth is out about "personal housing".

Basically, there's nothing "personal" about it. They've just copy/pasted FC housing - including the pricing. According to the notes, the pricing will fall and eventually half in 30 days time. Which means that, by then, all the best plots of land will be taken by the rich kids, leaving hardly anything (if anything at all) for anyone else. I also don't see why prices would fall significantly (especially by that much) when they haven't in the past.

Oh, for those not familiar with the term, FC means Free Company, which is what they're calling Guild in this game for some stupid reason. So I'm just going to refer to them as guilds to avoid confusion.

Personally, all I wanted was affordable housing, in actual housing districts (not related to guilds), with race related housing (by which I mean sizing). And I've pretty much given-up on that ever being included here.

I've already mentioned the ridiculous pricing, but what also disappoints me is that they stuck personal and guild housing together. If I want to relax at my personal house and meet personal players, I don't a bunch of guilds running around disturbing us. For me, owning a personal house is more for roleplay reasons, and just feeling like my little lalafell has a home of her own. It's not meant to be connected with guildss.

And by having the houses available to both personal and guild buying, it makes it even less likely that anyone will get the size housing they want as they've now got even more competition over it.

It took Lalafull (my guild) less than a month to save for our guild house, but that was exceptional. Most guilds take several months. I still don't know how we managed it. But hey, we're a guild of lalafell, so we're just amazing.

They'll add more housing wards in the future, which is all well and good. But no one wants the damn things in the state they're in. They're not personal at all. They're just guild houses listed as being owned by a single person. It's lazy ass bullshit on SquareEnix's part.

And what's worse is that they not only know what they're players want, but they promised it to them and then didn't deliver.

Now, to touch on the race related housing. I don't care if wards are restricted to certain races or not. But what I would absolutely ove is if we could have race related house sizing. As a lalafell, I can't reach a damn thing in our guild house. I'd at least like to have lalafell sized furniture in my personal lalafell home. That's the dream.

Anyways, enough with housing. I've no interest it in anymore after this piss poor attempt. I'll just stick with my private chamber within my guild house.

I'm glad that Amon and Xande in Syrcus Tower will now always yield Unidentified Allagan Tomestone and the Oil of Time, and apparently the Sands of Time after the Xande fight as well.

Though they were apparently meant to be adding the Sands of Time to Crystal Tower and I've not seen anything about that. :/

I quite like that the teleport interface has been changed. And the new item comparison thing is nice.

I don't expect the /hug emote to work anywhere near as good as people will be hoping. But I'm still glad we can try it out. And I'm quite happy we can /slap idiot players now too.

Hoping that the new battle poses will be decent.

Overall, another disappointing patch for me. Here's hoping they fix personal housing by 2.4, not to mention add some decent glamour gear (especially head gear), and some nice new hair styles. Looking forward, but also dreading, Hildibrand's voice acting. I hope they find someone perfect for the job! :3

Originally Posted by Fizzie

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Ever heard of the edit posts function ? :P

I'm not sure about UATs/oils/sands, the translations seem to be slightly off:

ENG: The treasure coffers that appear upon () defeating Amon and Xande in Syrcus Tower will now always yield the above items.
GER: <the same>

What I read: Amon's and Xande's chest will now have 1 equipment part, 1 UAT and 1 oil
What I think: Amon's and Xande's chest will now have 1 equipment part, 1 UAT or 1 oil


ENG: The coffers that appear after defeating Xande in Syrcus Tower will now always yield two pinches.
GER: Here it gets interesing because it is coffers in english but just coffer in german. Also the german text reads more like its about the bonus chest that does not spawn everytime.

Originally Posted by ElHeggunte

Probably not for a while since they're still limited to one per week whereas you can obtain an unlimited amount from hunts. So you might see less people hunting marks on Tuesday, but after that it'll be back to business as usual once they get their weekly sand/oil. It's still a nice change though. Options are always good.

That was my initial thought. However so long as soldiery remains capped, players will be limited in the number of things they can buy which need oil/sand. Even if you cap soldiery, that's at most one item per week. I'm expecting demand to drop slightly once players have unweathered the gear they currently have as there will be no need to rush for seals to get logs etc.

Agreed that they're still a great source of myth though, but SE basically throw it at you with duty finder in its current state.

Did not expect they add the /slap emote, I only remember the confirm we got is /hug