Thread: Any idea what is in patch 2.57?

More echo and/or nerfs to final coil.

Originally Posted by SanjuroXI

SoF isnt even comparable to CoPs level of difficulty lol. I don't even understand how anyone is unable to beat SoF unless there just full retarding the mechanics. I have 2 haracters and DF both my clears np.

Well good for you and your 2 characters. And good for me since i have my clear as well. Not so good for all those ppl beyond your understanding(again and for the third time...) that are not even getting a chance to try the fight because no one wants to even attempt it anymore.

And to be clear, i'm not trying to equate the difficulty of SoF fight to CoP(and let's be real, CoP was not hard. Keeping a static together long enough to clear it was the hard part). All i'm saying is the situations are quite similar imo. There is a fight or series of fights that effectively locks the majority of content of an expansion behind it.

I'm sorry but I can't empathise with players who still didn't clear SoF. Now I am not a particularly good player. I tend to die a lot during EX Primals. But I still managed to beat SoF on the day after it came out. It's not that difficult if you have the basic common sense to do what you are told. Damit, Titan has more mechanics. Unfortunately 99% of the people on DF are simply there to troll. I refuse to believe that some people are so imbecilic that commands like: "get behind the canon and shoot, only shoot the lance when I say so, and someone go up that tower" are beyond their capabilities. Yes, the only sensible answer is that they are trolling. But even without the mechanics it is doable if you understand your class and have a reasonably high item level. Reasonably high being over 100, which is quite low considering that WoD had been up for two months when 2.55 was released. You have all these and still can't do it because of pugs are bad? No problem. Use Party finder. I cleared it with the first PF group I joined. We had 3 attempts. On the third the first lance hit, the second missed and Vishap died before we even got to the third tower. It's that simple. And even that wasn't necessary as we had a FC run scheduled for that evening. This is very important. FFXIV is an MMO. A social game. If you want to play Heavensward I assume you already have a decent Free Company to craft airships. A decent FC will help you clear SoF. Hell, a decent SoF will carry you.

Sympathy is irrelevant, as are opinions. It's the raw numbers that matter. If less than half your active player base is going to get to play your incoming expansion due to lock-out... just how good do you think your next fiscal year's profit margins are going to look?

FFXI's CoP is what choke-held FFXI's numbers to about 500k when it could have had exponential growth like WoW. It took them years to figure out that they just bottle-necked their content so much that barely anyone had completed it.

If FFXIV is truly banking on requiring people to have completed ARR's story to even touch Heavensward, then they're going to have to keep the entirety of ARR's main story at the same sort of learning curve it's been maintaining. Right now, numbers are leaning otherwise.

It doesn't matter what anyone believes, or has an opinion on. This is a matter of raw numbers and how many SE wishes to preserve. If SE followed the desires of only their hardcore or hardcore leaning members we quite simply wouldn't have a game.

If you came into get your car oil changed and fluids topped off, and I told you to 'grow up' and change your own oil, you'd take your business elsewhere. That's effectively what you are telling these people.

dragoons are getting nerfed.

Originally Posted by OMEGA_HACK

Moogle hat coloring options.

Seriously hoping for this.

Maybe even prepairing for the "Pre Release" for those that pre order Heavensward?

But most likely something to do with Steps of Faith.