Thread: Any idea what is in patch 2.57?

Steps of faith nerf most likely, not sure if anything else.

Originally Posted by Whocareswhatmynameis

Steps of faith nerf most likely, not sure if anything else.

Regrettably, I have to agree with you.

Seriously, I think they took one look at the number/percentage of players who've cleared 2.55 Part II and they cannot be pleased!

Originally Posted by Starcade

Regrettably, I have to agree with you.

Seriously, I think they took one look at the number/percentage of players who've cleared 2.55 Part II and they cannot be pleased!

really that low I've managed to pass it on my 2 alts its not a cake walk fight but its not that impossible.. i still think like the odin fight they should just increase the ilvl to a sensible one giving ppl the need to get there better ilvl to pass it not just sponge of the back of geared players.. then again your always going to get the arses who if they can't one shot carry off a group they will just bounce around df till they find a group..

Whoa. They are doing an actual 2.57. Colour me surprised - but yeah, sadly, I have a suspicion it will once again be only one thing, and this time it's Steps of Faith nerfs. Not sure if the nerfs themselves are bad or not, that's a different subject; but I would like it if they included the things from my own imaginary patch notes. T.T

Originally Posted by Nalien

Hopefully they're just removing the Unsettled Scholar from Northern Thanalan, seems like a 6 hour job.

*points at dyed Valentiones gear*

Really hope they don't nerf Steps too hard. They really need to put their foot down sooner or later and make the Duty Finder dependent masses fly the nest. Really they should just remove it from the Duty Finder and force players on the same server to interact; Duty Finder is the subtle teat that many players need to be weaned off, seeing as they're at 50 but still absolutely terrible at the game...

Yes. Genius. Put there foot down and drive away players. That's going to be good for the game. (Note: I'm being sarcastic)

I think a better idea would be to start introducing mechanic changes like we see in Steps of Faith more slowly. Steps of Faith is a rather large departure from what people are used to. I think they should have introduced environmental mechanics incrementally over a longer time before making a fight so environmental mechanic intensive.

Even if they don't nerf it, in 3.0 you'll see the mechanics become sidelined anyway cause as 50+ characters reach higher gear levels the dps requirements will reach the point where the cannons and Dragonslayers won't be needed to dps him down in time.

Originally Posted by Belhi

Yes. Genius. Put there foot down and drive away players. That's going to be good for the game. (Note: I'm being sarcastic)

The players need to grow up and get better sooner or later, it makes perfect sense for the final instance before the expansion to be that time. SoF isn't hard, it's a mechanic driven battle that requires cooperation and a bit of coordination. If people can't make a conscious effort to TRY to do that, then they don't need to be playing a Massively MULTIPLAYER Online Role Playing Game.

Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

The players need to grow up and get better sooner or later, it makes perfect sense for the final instance before the expansion to be that time. SoF isn't hard, it's a mechanic driven battle that requires cooperation and a bit of coordination. If people can't make a conscious effort to TRY to do that, then they don't need to be playing a Massively MULTIPLAYER Online Role Playing Game.

Yes. There's a point at which players absolutely do have to start getting better.

However.

Steps of Faith is, in about a month and change, going to become outdated content. It's a challenge that won't really get any easier from gear and levels. And the reality is that right now, when it's still 'relevant' content, people have little patience for the fight. And it's going to be mandatory in order to make it to Heavensward content.

Really, I do want to see more content that requires players to get better... but Steps of Faith is both an incomparable fight to other content mechanically (Getting good at Steps doesn't necessarily mean much for the rest of the game other than 'ability to follow instructions'), and left alone, it'll just become more and more of an irritation and roadblock.

you may now dye your egg head