Patch Notes are up!

[shepherd]

The Steps of Faith has been adjusted as follows:
Vishap's maximum HP has been reduced.
The maximum HP of all enemies that spawn has been reduced.
Damage dealt by certain enemies has been reduced.
Damage dealt by Vishap's underfoot attack has been reduced.
Damage dealt by Bertha cannons upon exploding has been reduced.

got a sneak peek at 2.58
The Steps of Faith has been adjusted as follows:
upon entering all players are transported to the finish and Vishap drops dead
The difficulty of the exit has been reduced all players will auto exit out Steps of Faith

[HorrorStory]

I guess Steps will be faceroll, mechanics-ignoring content now? That weakening of the cannon explosion is unnecessary as well, as it gives people the impression that they can -- and should -- stand there and eat a detonation to maximize damage output.

[SpookyGhost]

During 2.0 before everyone was overgeared? I seriously doubt that you zerged it without a good premade.

Every time I DF'd it, which was every time. All I had to do was explain not to touch the bees. The only point where you couldn't zerg the Wall was in full AF1 w/ Ifrit weapon... maybe, but I only say that because I didn't try it at that point.

How 2 zerg: grab bees -> Sentinel + Rampart -> Stun one of the AOEs, Hallowed the other (avoids push/AOE, if Hallowed isn't up you can Tempered Will and manually avoid it) -> other CDs -> Hit the boss a lot.

Then again, I also explained how to avoid the AOEs before the pull so 9 times out of 10 no one fell off.

Anyway, nerfs are whatever. 4man dungeons are casual content for everyone, making them unnecessarily difficult is pointless. It's the same with raid content, which is why that's being addressed. Devs don't want to spend all that money on creating new assets for a dungeon that will only be passed by a select group of people. PS is a beautiful dungeon and I know a lot of people who couldn't even make it past the first boss before the nerf. There's a very specific reason why the hardest (challenging) content is a harder version of stuff with the same assets, only changing the mechanics (EX primals, Savage SCoB, and Savage Alexander).

[Wildsprite]

You're seriously comparing Vishap to Absolute Virtue in ANY sense much less pre-nerf?

Not speaking for that poster, but personally i got that the mindset for "i wantz teh uber fightin' challenge!!1!!" that ppl against any AV change had was more what was being referenced in that post.

And truthfully i can see the comparison.

yeah you got my point, the person you quoted didn't.

[randysquirrel]

Bad players throw up your arms and REJOICE
For content barely a month old has been nerfed because you cannot fire a cannon

[Aryalandi]

People are this surprised and angered by a fight that is supposed to be winnable by a team of item level 90 players being nerfed? I am sure there will be a hard mode for the difficult fight seekers later on..

Yay my girlfriend won't quit the game because of people screaming at her out of frustration at losing when she is doing everything she is supposed to and we can actually /get/ to the expansion because less people will drop the fight!

Wait.. oh no the horror, they are making stuff winnable for people who are not hardcore beast mode gamers, shame on them!

More importantly.. Odin mount theme update, that is so awesome i will /never dismount again/

[Spawnie]

I don't get all the hate about the nerf to steps of fate.

people complained about everyone leaving the instance- so a nerf was needed to stop that

and 2nd you need to pass steps of faith to enter 3.0 so of course they are going to make it as accessible as possible- I was surprised they left it at its normal difficulty for so long.

because it didnt need a nerf thats probably why theres so much hate for the steps of faith nerfing... it wasnt hard and it definately wasnt challenging.. just needed a little teamwork but yeah = = whats gonna happen in 3.0 + ?? if similar battles come along majority while whinge n whine for nerfs over n over n over again = =

[Mugiawara]

Not surprised one bit. This is why I have no hopes of having anything outside Coil even remotely hard now.
-Shrugs; Of course it was going to be nerfed, the main reason why is it's gated behind an expac. Only us will be able to go in HW and the other 95% of people crying tears
back in 2.xx land. You guys really need to step it up and learn how to communicate. This is a dang shame.
Just wish they stopped catering to every Jim and Jane who scream the loudest and put the nerf bad. SoF was the most fun I had
in ages.

[kuikui]

This is just going to far. Ffxiv, rated toddler and up.

[jazo]

to people that leaved when roulette was SoF or didn't even tryed to do roulette because of SoF... you don't have the right to make fun/complain about the nerfs, period

everyone else, please continue