Thread: 4.1 Patch Notes (Preliminary)

Originally Posted by Tsumdere

Then... don't... get the barding...? What's the problem here? o-o

Well yeah. Obviously. Just confused why anyone would bother with it. And I hope the barding was a summer project for an unpaid intern.

Originally Posted by Slevin_Impudicus

I don't understand the point of barding in the first place. They have no functional value. Plus, chocobos are the ugliest and most generic mount options in the game. The only use for them is in solo content to have some backup in which case nobody else is there to show your fugly chicken to anyway.

Chocobo companion customization. If there is "functional" value, having unique barding and feather coloration in it's vanity allows you to keep better tabs on the NPC.

Minions and vanity in general has no "functional" value, but no one wants them gone because they are fun and personal. Same thing with our birds.

(Though, I do wish we could make other mounts into our combat companion.)

Originally Posted by Slevin_Impudicus

Plus, chocobos are the ugliest and most generic mount options in the game. The only use for them is in solo content to have some backup in which case nobody else is there to show your fugly chicken to anyway.

Your chocobo may belong in a KFC boneless bucket, but my chocobo is fabulous.

So we need to complete 2 full Alliance raids to get the Duty finder for them? This seems rough for someone like me who is new to the game. I really want to experience those raids. Am I understand this wrong or will I have to try and PF to get my base clears?

Originally Posted by Ghanbaatar

So we need to complete 2 full Alliance raids to get the Duty finder for them? This seems rough for someone like me who is new to the game. I really want to experience those raids. Am I understand this wrong or will I have to try and PF to get my base clears?

Roulette won't open up until you've completed at least 2 of the 6 2.X-3.X 24 man raids.

Originally Posted by Ghanbaatar

So we need to complete 2 full Alliance raids to get the Duty finder for them? This seems rough for someone like me who is new to the game. I really want to experience those raids. Am I understand this wrong or will I have to try and PF to get my base clears?

It should make it easier for you to complete them. You will need to complete two to unlock the roulette, but the roulette should entice people to queue (which in turn, lowers the wait for an individual raid).

Originally Posted by Ghanbaatar

So we need to complete 2 full Alliance raids to get the Duty finder for them? This seems rough for someone like me who is new to the game. I really want to experience those raids. Am I understand this wrong or will I have to try and PF to get my base clears?

It's not DF itself that requires two. It's the Roulette. Roulette gets others who've already done them to keep doing them again so that new people queuing directly can get party members more easily. (Basically, the same way Leveling Roulette works in getting high level players to help new people get through the MSQ, but this one would be helping people get through the older raids.)

Originally Posted by Ghanbaatar

So we need to complete 2 full Alliance raids to get the Duty finder for them? This seems rough for someone like me who is new to the game. I really want to experience those raids. Am I understand this wrong or will I have to try and PF to get my base clears?

That's not how roulette works in helping new players form a team.

You just need to queue individually. Old players will use the roulette, which includes extra rewards to entice people to do them again, to enter your queue pool. As a result, you get people to do your instance with. Roulette queue and direct queue are not entirely separate queues. They complement each other.

It would be neat if we could get armour for our other mounts, the drake mount is really awesome! but you sit on nothing against the scales it seems like it would be painful, especially in thin clothes.