Patch Notes are up!

[Ferocious]

Liking the patch notes for the most part, but it doesn't make any sense to increase Shiva weapons ilevel to i115. It's the easiest primal and now it rewards something as good as T9. Say goodbye to all those T9 farm parties. SE made the same mistake back then by making Leviathan the easy primal and rewarding as good as T5. No one bothered farming T5 after. You either adjust the primal difficulty or adjust the rewards. There's so much imbalance.

Edit - and where's the nerf to previous relic quests? I was expecting at least some changes to books for Animus, it's so outdated now.

[Grey_Cain]

"* A number of newly-added items have been omitted from the patch notes to prevent in-game spoilers for the Zodiac Weapon quests. The patch notes will be updated with the names of these items after an upcoming Hot Fix.

Excalibur Gladiator's Arm Item Level: 125 / Equipment Level: 50"

Claims to be omitting names to prevent Zodiac Weapon spoilers, first item listed: EXCALIBUR

Just quest turn-in items for the quests themselves are omitted. I, personally, would've included the names of the final weapons as spoilers, but I guess SE doesn't see it that way. EDIT: Unless there's another tier of weapons that goes up to i135.

[Eul]

New dye on cash shop?? WTH?! why don't just place it on quick venture... Also the new requirement to get the new Artisan primary equipment reduced significantly lol.

[KaedrianLiang]

This...

Apocalypse (SMN?), Last Resort (SCH?) and Ragnarok (WAR).

I cannot accept Ragnarok as an axe! It should be DRK's since DRK will be using great swords. Apocalypse was also a DRK weapon... which means they won't be getting that again. Last Resort was a DRK ability as well so we know they won't be getting that again as well. =[

Don't worry theyre going to name the DRK' final relic form after Lancelot's weapon "Arondite."

[TimGoodacre]

I just got my GSM 70 mainhand like 3 days ago! lol
Spend all day mining gold ore and making the nuggets

Had mine for 6 months now and still miffed lol They clearly want to get more mastercraft demis out there so these will made for desynth instead of spectacles. Carp and Arm are now relevant to desynth, and BSM even more so.

[Tsukotaku]

Let the praise and complaining both begin!

I'm happy about:
The items required in exchange for goods from Talan in Mor Dhona at Revenant's Toll (X:21 Y:6) have been adjusted as follows:
So us newer crafters can catch up a little

Which is ridicolous for those like me who spent a lot of time and gils to gear up their crafting jobs. So, why don't we put Mastercraft Demimateria and High Allagan gear directly available at a NPC vendor for a bunch of gils next?

[Krr]

Say goodbye to all those T9 farm parties.

People make those? Excal is already over trying to pubfarm HA weaps because the increase is slight and anyone can get a minmaxed Nexus. All the T9's out have been late-phase practice/clear groups.

[RegnumMagik]

Liking the patch notes for the most part, but it doesn't make any sense to increase Shiva weapons ilevel to i115. It's the easiest primal and now it rewards something as good as T9. Say goodbye to all those T9 farm parties. SE made the same mistake back then by making Leviathan the easy primal and rewarding as good as T5. No one bothered farming T5 after. You either adjust the primal difficulty or adjust the rewards. There's so much imbalance.

That depends on what kind of stats you're looking for. I personally find HA WHM/SCH/BLM/BRD/DRG weapons are still worth farming for. That and t9 is already started to get outdated.

[DragonSlayer45]

"Each player will now receive a piece of diamond dust upon completion of Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)."

Well, time to get back into Shiva EX again. Kind of wish it was like this in the first place, but Shiva EX is easy and fun enough and at least it won't be as irritating as farming Leviathan for mirror's.

[Songi]

Liking the patch notes for the most part, but it doesn't make any sense to increase Shiva weapons ilevel to i115. It's the easiest primal and now it rewards something as good as T9. Say goodbye to all those T9 farm parties. SE made the same mistake back then by making Leviathan the easy primal and rewarding as good as T5. No one bothered farming T5 after. You either adjust the primal difficulty or adjust the rewards. There's so much imbalance.

Edit - and where's the nerf to previous relic quests? I was expecting at least some changes to books for Animus, it's so outdated now.

A lot of players are wasting precious time farming weapons from T9 when they should be instead trying to get statics or groups for Final Coil after their initial clear. The Shiva weapon change will definitely boost the number of Final Coil ready players across servers which is a good thing.