Preliminary patch notes are up

[Felis]

2) There's no word about raising that 50k seal cap either, which has been around since the start. And we've had so many item sets that can be exchanged for close to - or even more than 1k seal (for just one piece), that it still feels like idk what to do with either the items or the seals. ("Crafting mats", some say I'm sure, but those too have been around for so long, with such an abundance of seals, that there really is no need for extra effort to bother with them.)

increasing GC seal cap always happen with a new GC rank.
If you are searching something to spend your GC seals, i can recommend venture marks.

[BreathlessTao]

increasing GC seal cap always happen with a new GC rank.
If you are searching something to spend your GC seals, i can recommend venture marks.

Pretty much always have more than 80 of that too. And I don't need that many of those either.
On that note though - well, isn't it high time to add more GC ranks too? Can't even remember it being touched since launch?

[Nalien]

Pretty much always have more than 80 of that too. And I don't need that many of those either.
On that note though - well, isn't it high time to add more GC ranks too? Can't even remember it being touched since launch?

I believe they said they're working on it, but that they wanted to have an actual event built around new ranks, rather than just the same "Go farm X Seals for a promotion" that we had for 2.0. I'm hoping for a revival of Hamlet Defense, personally. Was pretty meh in 1.23, but the crafting aspect was nice, hopefully they can make something more akin to XIs Besieged/Campaign with the new servers... That could mirror Diadem actually... Diadem; Combat and Gathering. Hamlet Defense; Combat and Crafting. I'd hope we're getting something new in 3.2 at least, they said nothing new for Airship Exploration until 3.3 IIRC, and we're only getting two dungeons from now on so they can "try new things", so either 3 dungeons for 3.2 or 2 and something new please!

Also, I think Hunts may have screwed over Grand Companies in the short term... I'm fairly sure their initial plan was to have new Grand Company ranks with the Elite gear, Hunts was something they quickly threw together to appease demand for "XI style NMs", seems like new ranks and accompanying gear got thrown under that bus...