Thread: 3.2 Patch Notes

Originally Posted by Amelia_Pond_Behemoth

Just realized something about the novice hall, which we might have to wait until Tuesday for the answer. In the example shown, the challenge is to avoid aoe. If you stun a move, would that still count?

I suppose they will be stun immune, and I don't think you'll only have to avoid one...
But even so, what I heard was that you were to avoid AoEs for a period of time, not a number of them, was it not? Then it wouldn't matter if you avoid a few by stunning when all you have to do is survive till X time runs out O_o?

Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa

.... That makes no sense. When has playing a song ever caused a wipe? I've never seen it myself - I don't even know how that'd be possible in non-hardcore content. If a party wipes just because a Bard turned on Mage's Ballad, I think the issue lies with the group itself rather than just the bard.

It makes perfect sense, lower damage means harder to hit high DPS checks. Even non raid fights like Odin and Titan proved that anything reducing DPS at certain times was a very bad thing to do. 3.2 is going to be a interesting patch because of the changes to several classes. Gray areas of the game are going to be flirted with for a time being and only time will tell if things work out for the best.

Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

Look at the notes red script items will drop from dungeons now? Whats the point of people trying to acheive something for their crafting jobs again if you are gonna give everything as a handout to people?

Can you show me which note says that? I can't find it.

Originally Posted by Nalien

This?



I don't get the problem with this though... Couldn't we already get Purified Coke/etc. from Diadem?

They're moving them from the Law vendor to old dungeons (they're basically irrelevant mats now, like has happened each time we get more) instead of having you buy them with ESO. They want them to be gathered and used.

Originally Posted by PArcher

Extra DPS to speed things up is always nice.

However, healers *needing* to DPS to pass checks or to kill things in a reasonable amount on time...should not be a thing (outside of the cutting edge of early progression raiding). Same for tanks. And you see this too often. DPS really do need to stop being so damn lazy and do their job.

Unfortunately, that's never gonna happen so long as healers continue to marginalize the role of a DPS. It's already been proven in most fights that you don't even need DPSers.

To touch on the red scrip mats dropping, I am super excited for this, because it will help me finally get my foot in the door to reliably make red scrips and actually participate in the system without having to be an omnicrafter (which they, supposedly, wanted to kill off, ironically) or spending millions on materia that will be useless within a single patch.

For those who don't know, this is how the gear currently ranks:
1. HQ level 60 crafter gear = NQ crafted DoH AF2
2. Then you have HQ crafted DoH AF2
3. Red scrip AF2 DoH gear = HQ crafted DoH AF2 + max melds on every piece

So with the items dropping in dungeons it is cutting the cost and the grind to make it easier to get people to a level where they can get HQ DoH AF2s crafted so that participating in the red scrip system doesn't require a sacrificial limb. It's not making crafters jump to being the best by any stretch, as the new sets will make even the red scrip AF2s obsolete, but it will make it a hell of a lot easier to get crafters to a point where they can be effective and (albeit slowly) reliably craft for red scrips so they can begin progressing. (Without relying on materia, I should add.)