Patch Notes are up!

[Squintina]

Not really.
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All of this will also harm the player base in the endgame. You don't know how many times I saw farm parties in T7 being able to kill Melusine, after the 2.4 patch, just thanks to the nerfs Square Enix applied.

That just means they didn't nerf T7 at the right pace. Imagine if all T's were as hard as they always were. Thanks to older players wanting to move on to newer content, newer players still trying to clear older content would end up hopelessly trying to catch up. The same applies to crafting. It has to have its progression nerfed too - it just means they shouldn't nerf it again for a while. This one is enough for now.

[Synestra]

Relic: Question is, will it shine!

This stage will propably lose it just like Atma and final one will bring it back, i mean this cannot be final stage yet as it ended just being ilvl125. Tbh its kinda wierd that it already didnt match with augmentet IW weapons, maybe it gets "hotfix" when tomes/upgrade items will start to drop from CT3 as othervise it would huge middlefinger for all relic grinders, and final stage will mostlikely make it on par with Dreadwyrms just before expansion.

[Illya]

They need to nerf the earlier Relic quest stages and make them easier. Especially the ridiculous Novus stage with the materia requirements. Come on Squenix, what the hell.

[Keisatsu]

They need to nerf the earlier Relic quest stages and make them easier. Especially the ridiculous Novus stage with the materia requirements. Come on Squenix, what the hell.

Unfortunately they kinda can't nerf that part specifically, maybe increase ways to get Alexandrite or lower the costs of them. Though I can imagine them doing something with the requirements for the books.

[Ooshima]

English patch notes:

Japanese patch notes:


Translation and highlight is mine.
So which is it? English patch notes make it sound too good to be true.

I always refer to the JP notes. It will be 100% drop but all 8 players will fight for it.

[Karen_Cerfrumos]

I always refer to the JP notes. It will be 100% drop but all 8 players will fight for it.

Yeah that's what it sounds like going by the Japanese notes.

[AlphaDragoon]

Unfortunately they kinda can't nerf that part specifically, maybe increase ways to get Alexandrite or lower the costs of them. Though I can imagine them doing something with the requirements for the books.

If they want to eventually make it easier they could by making you not need as many Materia. Make it for example, where instead of having to add a certain number of I/II/III/IV Materia per stat, you just have to add as an example, 5-10 of DET Materia (and they can still be the cheap ones) but you still get the maximum amount of DET. It just automatically adds it like with the books.

Alternatively (which would make people rage, I'm sure) they could crash the market by making you able to obtain the Materia through tomes or something.

[Aeromat]

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

I'm so sorry Grein :c

[Keisatsu]

If they want to eventually make it easier they could by making you not need as many Materia. Make it for example, where instead of having to add a certain number of I/II/III/IV Materia per stat, you just have to add certain amount. Like, you need 5-10 of DET Materia (and they can still be the cheap ones) but you still get the maximum amount of DET. It just automatically adds it like with the books.

Alternatively (which would make people rage, I'm sure) they could crash the market by making you able to obtain the Materia through tomes or something.

Keep in mind they do want to retain some level of fair-ness with people who've already done it. Just saying it wouldn't be fair to those who paid full price. Though increasing ways to get alex (Whether it be % increase in Fate drop, or price reductions) would still keep to the fair-ness and making it easier on those that have been left behind or perhaps working on a second / third relic, etc.

[Parodine]

If they want to eventually make it easier they could by making you not need as many Materia. Make it for example, where instead of having to add a certain number of I/II/III/IV Materia per stat, you just have to add as an example, 5-10 of DET Materia (and they can still be the cheap ones) but you still get the maximum amount of DET. It just automatically adds it like with the books.

Alternatively (which would make people rage, I'm sure) they could crash the market by making you able to obtain the Materia through tomes or something.

I guess they could shorten it by letting the chests drop 2? Would be drastically shorter though. Maybe just a 50% chance to drop 2 maybe.