The weekly entrance restriction on entering all areas of Alexander: Midas (Savage) has been removed.
The weekly restriction on rewards obtained from coffers has been removed.
That is nice. It will be easier to get gear I want for sub jobs.

Players may now proceed directly to any area of Alexander: Midas (Savage).
Players may now enter Alexander: Midas (Savage) via the Duty Finder.
Uh oh. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
It is already very hard to find a good group for "Duty Completion" even with Raid Finder. What I mean, it is easy to find a group. But it is hard to find a group that knows the mechanics.

By allowing it in Duty Finder AND allowing people to go to any stage they want, I think many groups will have a tough time clearing it. Does it mean anyone with sufficient Item Level can just queue up for A8, without even having tried A5? Even if they have never practiced before.

It is no longer required to adhere to the average item level requirement when registering as a full party.
Wait. So this means 7 people with IL 240+ and one person with IL whatever can enter any instance as a full party and help that IL-whatever person get a clear?

I wonder what the purpose was in making this adjustment??

The following additions and adjustments have been made to the Palace of the Dead.
Like them all.

Players can now specify the number of items to be exchanged at certain NPC shops.

NPC shops that require an exchange of tokens such as Allagan tomestones or beast tribe currency will now allow players to specify the number of items to be purchased.
Lovely QoL improvement!

The level cap for desynthesis has been increased.

The following items can now be sold, desynthesized, or submitted for expert delivery missions.
Yes!! I was looking forward to this!!


New items are available from the scrip exchange NPC in Idyllshire (X:5.7 Y:7.0).
Folklore books?

The materia melding window will now display the maximum parameters for an item in addition to the resulting parameters for the selected materia.
Wonderful!

New phrases have been added to the auto-translation dictionary.
But still missing a ton of other really important ones. Like "The Minstrel's Ballad: Thordan's Reign".