Preliminary patch notes are up

[Alistaire]

No fan of that myself, but...
If I had to hazard a guess, it would be because ranged dps also have the "freedom of movement" to go with dps. How accurate that is now with our bow wizards is up in the air. :/

Used to be a thing where melee were shunned over ranged dps because they had to dodge boss aoes and cleaves harder.

Thing is, ranged dps are universally less dps than melee and more for their utility right now, but there's no real extra useful utility from having either brd+mch or blm+smn that putting a penalty on groups with brd+mch+caster or blm+smn+brd/mch makes any kind of sense. They're essentially gimped enough as is.

I can understand the change; it just would've been better if it had been a penalty to 3+ tanks, 3+ healers or 3+ melee. Penalizing 3+ ranged dps is just rude.

[Kallera]

They are in fact very good news.

Now crafters will be able to progress through the i150 > i170 stage at their own pace and feel like they are progressing instead of having to crash against a wall of grind. This change alone, will potentially bring back a lot of the dissapointed crafters with the red scrip system back to crafting. In fact, im the one who thinks this is how red scrip change ratios should have been from the begining.

I second this sentiment and am glad sanity is starting to return to crafting.

[Noxifer]

I can understand the change; it just would've been better if it had been a penalty to 3+ tanks, 3+ healers or 3+ melee. Penalizing 3+ ranged dps is just rude.

Or if they'd stuck to the same role groups as in the Limit Break tooltip they show nearby:

...and kept Casters and Ranged DPS separate.

For the love of the Twelve, it even highlights the word "role" and then separate them into those groups... I foresee confusion in keeping the role groups separate when they're different in different content.

[RyuSaarva]

They are in fact very good news.

Now crafters will be able to progress through the i150 > i170 stage at their own pace and feel like they are progressing instead of having to crash against a wall of grind. This change alone, will potentially bring back a lot of the dissapointed crafters with the red scrip system back to crafting. In fact, im the one who thinks this is how red scrip change ratios should have been from the begining.

sure if you like that every player has every item and everything is common.

[myahele]

I am kinda confused. When a member leaves/get kicked does that mean people who decide to leave the instance while "looking for new party member" is active will then get penalized for 30 mins, too?

As it stands now, as long as one person leaves/gets kicked the rest can leave with no penalty.

[DragonSlayer45]

[2.0] Players can now exchange Allagan Tomestones of Poetics for the following items

Encrypted Tomestone
Carboncoat
Carbontwine

Well, it's about time.

[Nadirah]

Undersized isn't going away, but if you remember when you do undersized runs the reward chest is gone. The patch is moving direct drops, like ponies and materials, to the chest. If the drops are in the chest, but the chest is gone...

The hell, no it's not.

That chest is there every single time I do it. And I do it a *lot*.

[Nadirah]

I still say they should of did shield bash instead of shield swipe.

Shield bash is connected to fast blades cooldown, use fast blade can't use stun.

Ever been in a 2 bard and healer party and there being a tank who fighting neverreap bees and it does final sting yeah dead unless the healer is quick enough and they aren't because tank pulls bees and the tree now only if the shield bash was on its own tank could stun and not worry about the cooldown.

Never had a problem with this. Once the bees are at half HP I cycle through them and chain stun them. ONLY using my stun.

And it's not connected to fast blade's cd, it's connected to the global cooldown.

The simple fact that it's *on* global, with NO cooldown, is why it's spammable and lasts 6s.

[LandricFrey]

So many long awaited QoL additions in 3.1... Thank you SE! ;;

[RazeLandale]

Tataru confirmed for last boss.