Thread: Patch 2.55 Poetics tome cap

Brought it up on reddit already, wanted to bring it up here to get the attention of SE.

About the loot lockout in final coil:

The patch notes say that the weekly restriction of entering will be abolished. For WoD it specifically says that we can get unlimited loot, but for FCoB it only tells us about the entering. Im starting to think that, since its still so long until 3.0, the weekly loot lockout is still present.

Right now we need at least one new player to enter a turn and we cannot enter T11 before clearing T10 (and so on). With these new changes mentioned in the patch notes, we can enter any turn at any time, as often as we'd like with the same 8 players and the weekly loot lockout can still be there. E.g. today is reset day, my team assembles, we dont need anything from T10 and 11, we go into T12 directly and clear T12 and T13. Then we'd like to try out that new awesome tactic for T13 someone of us just saw on youtube. So we assemble and simply go in again with the same 8 players. And if we kill it, no loot for us.
Since we havent cleared T10 and 11 we can still go with other groups and upon clearing it with a group of 7 players that doesnt have the kill this week yet, we see two chests and can even loot on them. If we help someone else clear T13 that week while we already killed it, then that group will get only 1 chests, in case only 1-3 other players in that group (other than ourselves) already cleared T13 that week.

Other arguments contra loot lockout removed:

- still damn long until 3.0
- carbontwine/-coat and stone only once per week and only one of those
- no mentioning of the poetics cap
- specific wording on the wod loot, while nothing specific about fcob loot

So basically: No umlimites ilvl 130 pieces from poetics and no unlimited ilvl 130 pieces from coil, but unlimited ilvl 120 pieces from WoD and the ability to join any turn at any time. Sounds like a system that would help players clearing coil without opening up any endgame content for farming, since 3.0 is still months away.

It would be nice if we could get a statement from an official, otherwise we just have to wait until servers up and try it out ourselves, what excatly is going on.

Something to keep in mind is that we are most likely going to see more patches added in before xpac release. Yoshi-P's aforementioned 2.56 patch, for example, could house the tome cap removal. It may even be possible that it was accidentally not included in the patch notes for 2.55 (though this one is far less likely).

Whether or not they remove it doesn't seem like a big deal, one way or another, but I wouldn't put it past them to want to stretch out the grind a little longer until June, given that this is a new approach to an end for everyone to see in FFXIV. But if that were the case, I'd think this would be how it plays out (and somewhat of why).

2.55 - Remove cap on WoD and FCoB loot. Give WoD gear wider use, which wouldn't happen if poetics cap were removed at this point, and keep Poetics weapons from being looked at the same as Soldiery weapons.
2.56 (maybe in a month or so from now, i.e. early May) - Remove tome cap. Allow people to get pretty much everything they'd like to get before Heavensward.

Originally Posted by Gardes

Sheesh, getting 450 poets each week is already mind numbing as it is and you guys want the ability to grind for more? If you're that gear thirsty, why not invest all that time you plan on 'pouring' on poet hoarding into learning fcob instead? I'm sure you can convince some friends who were bound by their own group due to weekly lockout to assist you and boost your success rate. Maybe that's SE's intention in the first place.

Mind numbing? Yes. But still a hell of a lot less mind numbing than running a minimum 30 minute 24 man raid over and over with a small chance of the armor pieces you want dropping, and of you actually getting them each time. Additionally, a lot of people have barely touched SCoB, let alone learned FCoB, and having to put up with the bad attitudes and perfection required for FCoB for gear that is guaranteed to be outdated in less than 3 months? I don't think a lot of the more casual people will bother.