Thread: Any things you don't like in the 3.0 patch notes?

Kinda disappointed that there appear to be no new Grand Company ranks, instead it seems like Hunts are replacing them... I don't like Hunts all that much... The possibility that awesome Grand Company glamour material are locked behind Allied Seals, and might be locked behind Centurio Seals, is not appealing to me. Hunts are just an abysmal piece of content... Give me force pop'd versions with some actual tracking involved and I'd eat it up, however. Not a big fan of the "wait and zerg" mentality Hunts have created, and Mark Bills are just trash in comparison...

Originally Posted by Onikimaru

* Players are normally limited to two retainers per character. To hire additional retainers, please use the optional retainer service

Also no additions to armory space.

So much this... So now we can buy 6 extra retainers? When are people going to be outraged paid extra retainers?

The added ability to just play the market. The increasingly significant income from retainer ventures (inb4 someone claims Ventures are a hard currency to obtain...). Two can already obtain you 5,000G a day off Allagan Silver Pieces, lets assume for a minute that the new ventures coming wont provide more ASP, or make the upgrade to Allagan Gold Pieces. Someone paying for 6 extra retainers is now earning, by basically doing nothing at all, 20,000G a day off their retainers, while others earn 5,000G. That is a minimum. It makes no account for something like the 6 extra chances at (fairly valuable) minions. It makes no account for using ventures to obtain (potential valuable) items. It is a paid advantage, plain and simple.

Not only is this blatantly a paid advantage, it's practically extortion at this point. Plenty of people "need" that extra inventory space, but rather than sorting out the games inventory system, SE is trying to turn an extra buck out of the issue; "Oh yes... We can't errr, fix the Armoire because... um... server limitations! Yeah, please buy extra retainers instead!". By all means SE, I'll buy your dumb little minions like an idiot, but the extra retainers is crossing a line.

Originally Posted by Xenosan

I have the feeling it's +Strength ==> +extra Mitigation amount that's being removed. Sad.

I'd hope it's the DEX increasing our rates, tanks don't use DEX so it's a pointless stat that never really changes anything, hopefully they're going to buff parry stat and make block completely dependant on the number on the shield.

Tanks actually use STR so hopefully it will stay relevant since it's something they actually get a benefit from.

Things I don't like in patch notes: det changes, more paid retainers, SMN is now blue mage.

No list of achievement changes!!!! ARGH! If they wanted to hide the titles to prevent spoilers then fine but what are the new achievements for? Will there for instance be new tiers on some of the old ones? If so, they could at least have listed those.

The line indicating a border between zones has been adjusted.

But why SE?