Preliminary patch notes are up

[SomeRandomHuman]

No egi glam. sadface D:

[Colorful]

See, the problem with that is that in three months, you'll feel the exact same way about Pharos Sirius HM and that new garden dungeon thingie. Only two dungeons in Expert is murder for people's tolerance of said dungeons. I'd pick a 25% chance to get Neverreap over flipping a coin to get either Pharos or the other one for three to four months.

As I said, in this patch we have more options to cap on Esoterics than ever before. That will alleviate the problem, tired of Pharos and Mocianne's whatever (I think I spelt that right), well go Airship Exploration and Void Ark to cap instead. Even if you were to just do those for 3 months, it would eventually become as bad Neverreap and Fractal were a month ago, slowly, as opposed to getting into Neverreap 8 months after its release and wanting to leave then and there.

[Remus]

Hunts again!? SE do you seriously not learn? People have already complained about this and your doing it again? Hunts are stupid just admit you failed on hunts and now you just trying to put it down people's throats to show that it is useful. Hunts just create a toxic community in the game and I wish they would just remove hunts as a whole, but seems SE has too much pride to see hunts was a failure.

[HorseBoots]

>Illuminati Gobtwine now obtainable through hunts.

I swear to god it's like they never learn. You take one step forward by offering neat cosmetic rewards through hunts and then like 11 steps back by bringing back the Gobtwine.

[Nalien]

So just do the dailies, then. I got everything I needed last time without joining the zerg once. Unless you feel the need to have it NOW NOW NOW there's no reason to not take your time.

Not the problem I'm having...

I like killing the A and S Ranks, like I said I find that enjoyable when the entire server isn't jumping on them... That is effectively going to be impossible post-3.1 though, because the demand this will create will have everyone back calling in the orbital strike on every Hunt possible...

The obviously solution is to just make Hunts force popped. Then people can effectively face them how they'd like, rather than being forced to play on the same level as the entire server. I will not be able to low-man A Ranks come 3.1, this adjustment has effectively killed Hunts for me as such. Make them force popped? Problem solved. I can low-man them, the rest of the server can form an alliance and melt them in seconds. We can both play however we want to, rather than either me just losing out on Hunts completely, or becoming a pariah because I dared to pull before every single person on the server was ready...

Hunts could be a fun little open world event, similar to how Treasure Maps were for a while after 2.1 (where there were basically always Party Finder groups for them), but SE instead chooses the laziest route, and the majority of players are fine with that, because they can just follow the crowd and spam Medica II and get full credit... Hunts are f*cking absurd, like I said, I'm sick this...

[Dree-Elle]

...you can't do Undersized pony farming anymore.

Wait, what? Didn't see anything saying that the unsync option was going away, only that Primal mat drops were being moved to the loot coffers.

[hagare]

"Ahriman / Bomb Palanquin / Logistics System / Kirin / Magitek Armor / Gilded Magitek Armor / Draught Chocobo / Ceremony Chocobo / Amber Draught Chocobo"

someday my other primal ponies will be rele-

"[2.0] It is now possible to ride mounts other than the personal chocobo while your companion is summoned.
* Riding a mount will not dismiss your companion."

HOLY SHIT

BEST! PATCH! EVEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!
*fangirl squeal*

Expert Roulette has only ever been 2-3 dungeons with the old list getting shunted down to High. I'm not sure where people are getting this notion that this is an exception. As for the Primal weapons... price isn't changing if not getting higher anytime soon as this adjustment will mean less people farming them because you can't do Undersized pony farming anymore.

wait what?
it's actually gonna be the other way around. Because now you can actually get those mats when unsynced farming.

[Krylo]

In response to gobtwine etc. from hunts, I present:

Completion Reward
Upon completing the Void Ark, players can also earn a separate reward once per week. This reward can be exchanged with Bertana in Idyllshire (X:5 Y:5) for items used to enhance equipment purchased with Allagan tomestones of esoterics.

So you'll be able to get it from:

A: Void Ark
B: Daily/Weekly Hunts
C: A/S Rank Hunts

I doubt that anyone will really need to be doing the A/S rank stuff unless they want their upgrade items beyond ASAP in a patch that doesn't really add anything particularly harder/requiring better gear than what we already had.

So, you know, just don't zerg it? The gear won't be necessary for anything, and you'll get it anyway without dealing with that.

[zar]

The following item for concealing the appearance of a pugilist's arm is available for purchase from Tataroga in Mor Dhona at Revenant's Toll (X:22 Y:6).
The Emperor's New Fist

OH BABY!!!

[Krylo]

OH BABY!!!

Shh.

Trying not to think too much about that so the hype doesn't kill me. Been wanting it ever since I rolled pugilist way back whenever.