Preliminary patch notes up.

[ErzaScarlet77]

im glad i dont craft otherwise the whole retainer stuff wouldve pissed me off since inventory space will be loaded even more

[Gardes]

Could be playing games but instead I did this for kicks. PLD skills listed at the same levels they're learned as DRK.

Could have a lot of mistakes in this but so far DRK has 6 ??? skills with 4 of them being completely unknown, 2 with no names. There's 2 ? skills, 1 being a guess of mine, 1 being unknown level of mitigation. If you consider that sentinel (40% mitigation) is the equivalent of vengeance (30% mitigation) and also consider shadow wall's 30% to be the same level, shadow wall and vengeance is learned at 46 while sentinel is learned at 38. Also Scourge at lvl 6 seems to be the Fracture equivalent.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

I'm am saddened that they still haven't done anything about "wait" as default on controllers.

[ZodiacBrave]

Best news for me here is that they've adjusted the Zodiac Weapons.

As expected, they decreased the tedious grind in order to hasten the process. I guess the grind's only purpose is to increase playtime and get people busy until 3.0 is ready.

Also, Poetics is gonna be the new Soldiery, which will now be phased out like Mythology. I do not quite understand the purpose of this. Why add more tomestones then remove the old ones?

[Fantasy9]

Best news for me here is that they've adjusted the Zodiac Weapons.

As expected, they decreased the tedious grind in order to hasten the process. I guess the grind's only purpose is to increase playtime and get people busy until 3.0 is ready.

Also, Poetics is gonna be the new Soldiery, which will now be phased out like Mythology. I do not quite understand the purpose of this. Why add more tomestones then remove the old ones?

They did this so that players can still get gear for lvl 50 while able to get lvl 60 gear. This is probably because there are people that still haven't bought the expansion.

[Spawnie]

no mention of grand company ranks increased?? kinda disappointed in that unless i missed it lol

[zandervont]

no mention of grand company ranks increased?? kinda disappointed in that unless i missed it lol

just the preliminaries, i guess not to stirr up the market with the Expert turn ins and whatnot.

[Hayward]

*Liking the streamlining of Relic/Zodiac quests. Closing in on Nexus for Yoshimitsu at the moment and will resume work on Thyrus to see how much faster I can bulid it.

*Don't mind restricting map acquisition on FSH to an ability. It's a real buzzkill to forget about your map timer and hook a Leather Map while looking for fish.

*Teraflare for SMN. Teraflare for SMN!

*More Poetics is nice but I wonder if the Magitek weapons will still be worth buying, if only as starter weapons for Ishgard.

*Any action against RMT is a welcome one, and I'm certain legit players on the free trial can still be added to others' Friend List.

*Spell speed would be worth something AFTER I changed my stats on the Apocalypse to Det./Crit. Hit Rate.

[Ultimatecalibur]

*More Poetics is nice but I wonder if the Magitek weapons will still be worth buying, if only as starter weapons for Ishgard.

They should still be good until 55.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

*Any action against RMT is a welcome one, and I'm certain legit players on the free trial can still be added to others' Friend List.

Yeah, I don't really see this as a problem. They meet new people, get invited to a FC, and make new friends. A legit player would just have to send a quick /tell asking the person to add to friendslist. The only real issue is if both players are on trial accounts. But c'est la vie.