Thread: 4.1 Patch Notes (Preliminary)

Originally Posted by Teraluna

This is the thin end of the wedge, showing the devs thinking direction. It's the first stage of an idea that shouldn't be anywhere near an mmo. You and no one else in a group - absolutely ideal for a single player game.

I fear the next step will be 'we have expanded the squadron groups to xxxxx content'.

I can't wait for them to be implemented in Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium. Indeed, I hope once the AI is trained enough, SE change Castrum/Prae to solo duties, in which you take 7 adventurer squadrons with you (as in, not your own Squadron, but a group of AI squadrons provided by the GC to assist you, not for you to train yourself). Those 2 dungeons are a hot mess, a sign of a design decision that failed on SE, and thus need to be dealt with. Convert them to solo instances, remove the MS Roulette, perhaps add a way to replay previously completed solo duties (restrictions to enter said duty will still apply), and bob's your uncle.

Originally Posted by TheCount

The actual patch notes better have some good DRK changes because the tank community for them is getting pretty piiiiiiiissed at continuously having been ignored every time they talk about Tanks.

Prelim notes are essentially final notes. They just omit crafted items and mats so people don't meta the market board. In the same vein they'll say shit like "this isn't the final build things might change" and then nothing changes from the build they were showing off.

Or how they were reworking Parry. Didn't talk about it and just decided to flat out remove it last minute. So yeah.

Originally Posted by LandricFrey

I don't see much of a difference between NPC and player groups. Most people run DF with randoms, nobody talks, you finish the dungeon, done. So what's the big deal? Mad that DPS don't have to wait for a que? Yes I know it's a social game. I like playing with friends but our schedules don't always match, and I'd rather play NPC group than random DF. No que, no afks, no DC's, no trolls.

For a social game not only a sect of players but devs themselves are anything but social. Outside of oh hi I am new to the administration staff or a PR excuse of look forward to it or this is isn't happening do you ever see any cohesive human communication? NOPE.

And it's damn sad for an MMO.

...Then when people want to hunt in ARR zones, they will have a great deal more work to do for equal or fewer rewards. That seems to me like the wrong way to implement this. You shouldn't be interested in scaring players away from traveling the old zones via forcing a unique inconvenience upon them, that is stuff that helps keep the world more lively.

As a QoL improvement, please reduce the potential spawn points of all hunts that exist in A Realm Reborn zones. They take way too long to scour to find a random mob. The expansion zones have much fewer spawn locations making it easier to search, plus you can go so much faster with flight. It makes no sense to make old content so much more difficult to perform hunts in. Perhaps this number could reduced to a smaller extent by adding a 2nd elite hunt mark per zone and splitting the spawn points by region like what was done in the expansions.

example: Possible Alteci spawn points in Heavensward:
http://cablemonkey.us/huntmap2/Coert...s_-_Alteci.jpg

example: Possible Kreutzet spawn points in Heavensward:
http://cablemonkey.us/huntmap2/Coert...-_Kreutzet.jpg

Possible Naul spawn points in A Realm Reborn:
http://cablemonkey.us/huntmap2/Coert...nds_-_Naul.jpg