Thread: Patch 1.20 Notes (12/12/2011)

One thing that I found interesting in the patch notes was the chart pasted below. Maybe this is old information. If so, I apologize as I've never seen it before. I find it interesting that each class has 2 damage modifiers for auto-attack. I wonder if each attribute provides an equal bonus, or if Bonus 1 is the primary modifier and Bonus 2 is a secondary modifier. Certainly would add more use for all of those lesser desired materia.

≪Auto-attack Damage Bonus≫

Class Bonus 1 Bonus 2
Pugilist Intelligence Strength
Gladiator Mind Strength
Marauder Vitality Strength
Archer Dexterity Piety
Lancer Piety Strength
Conjurer Mind Piety
Thaumaturge Mind Piety

Excited overall, but there sure are a lot of typos in this - example- all the GC weapons with defense.

When I read:

"Players are no longer bound by level restrictions when setting actions from other classes. For instance, a level 1 pugilist will be able to set a level 30 gladiator action. However, the effectiveness of that action will be scaled down accordingly."

Were we not supposed to be able to use a level 30 action or ability on a level 1 class? Were they optimal rank or restricted?

Ah well, the future indicates there will be ability scaling nonetheless.

The adjustment in Disciple of Hand class recipes is nice. But my giant butt is, I thought most of us were completing these quests to unlock access to guild abilities that we would spend guild marks on, where the gil and marks were secondary.

It's all good howe'er, since the abilities are awarded through level up and any lore in the quest can be resolved with resources presently available in-game.

Another great patch. Good job yoshi and devs.

So traits aren't passive enhancements like we thought, judging by the recast timers? Does this mean that we'll have to use two actions just to do one now in order to get only slightly better results?

For instance:
Enhanced Protect + Protect
Enhanced Healing + Cure
Enhanced Raise + Raise

It seems like a needless and redundant step to worry about whenever you do anything when it should just be a passive equippable upgrade for your actual abilities.

Originally Posted by Inaaca

So traits aren't passive enhancements like we thought, judging by the recast timers? Does this mean that we'll have to use two actions just to do one now in order to get only slightly better results?

For instance:
Enhanced Protect + Protect
Enhanced Healing + Cure
Enhanced Raise + Raise

It seems like a needless and redundant step to worry about whenever you do anything when it should just be a passive equippable upgrade for your actual abilities.

I'd be willing to put gil down that this is either a typo, or traits kick in automatically at that interval. Namely, you're first attack every 5 seconds gets an Att+. I'm leaning very much toward it being a clerical error though.

It's either that or how DoH traits/abilities appeared after set time etc.

Originally Posted by Uriko

Piety got changed AGAIN?

Shame we can't reallocate after we've done it once in 1.20; better make sure you get it right the first time. I guess this means I won't be switching between PGL and CNJ during 1.20 too because my stat allocation won't allow me to change. Could be me misreading things, but sounds like we won't be able to reallocate stats changed in 1.20 until 1.21 at the earliest? (or 1.20b, whichever).

My main concern is that there honestly doesn't seem that much for us to DO. Couple more GC quests, new Primal battle and...that's about it. I'll have to try 1.20 myself but not sure on what I've seen in the notes yet.

Each class gets their own stats to allocate! What they mean by not being able to reallocate the stats is that you can't redo them for that particular class until much later.