Thread: Patch 2.41 notes

On one hand, T6/T7/T8 are facerolls now. On the other, Savage T6/T7/T8 still exist. However, the leap from one to the other is now even larger than before.

At least they didn't change T9.

Damage dealt by the attack Sharp Sting used by dark matter hornets has been reduced.
Dark matter hornets will no longer continue to spawn after phase transitions, even when players are afflicted by the Honey-glazed status effect.

But seriously, "mechanic" damage reduction is not destroying the actual mechanic. Just because you don't get one shot anymore doesn't mean you should ignore it entirely. The biggest issue i have with this patch is nothing for the DRG's. Guess its back to my corner till 2.45.

seems to me like they're just making them easier to aid in itemization for the FCOB.
Which is PRECISELY what I said about hunts before 2.4 and was pretty much proven right when 2.4 rolled around and only the S ranks were updated with poetics drops.
Until they add the next 24 man, the only real options for gearing up new or returning players for FCOB, which requires not just an iLevel minimum, but the right combination of items, is SCOB, Soldiery, Crafting, and Poetics.
Poetics is the ideal, but it's slow, with about half to three quarters of an item gained per week, while crafting is ludicrously expensive (an ideally melded HQ piece costing somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 million gil, and that's if you're VERY luck with melds). Soldiery is the fastest way but not all the stats are ideal, which leads SCOB.
In short, in order to facilitate people actually being able to ATTEMPT t9 and FCOB, they made SCOB easier.
Why is anyone surprised? They've done this before, but with BCOB there wasn't as much TO make easier since it was basically a couple DPS checks and an add fest before twintania. Who people still complain about being too hard.

@aerolol War and pld can survive if War pops vengence and pld pops sentienl or combo with rampart and bulwark. i do all the time in my static when we was clearing T6-9 weekly. my static laugh at me when i get hit by blighted

Originally Posted by Marxam

But seriously, "mechanic" damage reduction is not destroying the actual mechanic. Just because you don't get one shot anymore doesn't mean you should ignore it entirely.

If you can ignore it, why try to learn the mechanic? Why not keep DPSing during Blighted and get a quick Cure3 if it won't instagib you? I think the t7 nerf is fine as you still get halted by messing up (not exactly as punishing as killing you, but still teaches you You Shouldn't Do That), but man... I didn't think T6 could be more faceroll than before...

Why are they adding even more restrictions to leveling and unlocking the 'fun' ?

Before:
Players must reach level 30 with the job’s associated class.
After:
Players must reach level 30 with the job’s associated class, and have completed the main scenario quest "Sylph-management."

^ slow down bots more than likely