Patch Notes (Preliminary)

[Ariane]

I'm curious about whether or not the new DoH/L stuff is going to be gated by an item purchased with currency from the Namazu dailies similar to the Ironworks gear.

Not that I'd have a problem with it, since it just makes it harder for the bots to exploit the market with an unfarmable resource involved.

Glass fibers could be obtained from desynth and Aquapolis. Before that, it was the Ehcatl Sealants that could only be gotten from Ixali dailies. I'm not sure they will lock the mats to a beast tribe only ever again because it makes people complain they are "forced" to do them over other beast tribe dailies.

[Lucke]

Glass fibers could be obtained from desynth and Aquapolis. Before that, it was the Ehcatl Sealants that could only be gotten from Ixali dailies. I'm not sure they will lock the mats to a beast tribe only ever again because it makes people complain they are "forced" to do them over other beast tribe dailies.

Glass fibers came from Moogle currency too.

[Ariane]

Glass fibers came from Moogle currency too.

I know. The point is that glass fibers were totally "farmable", and were not only restricted to the beast tribe. Glass fiber prices crashed fast because they could be farmed by desynthing DoL/H blue scrip gear. I'm sure even bots farmed them.

[KageTokage]

I wasn't aware that those were obtainable from desynthing. But yeah, if it's farmable to any extent and profitable the bots will be all over it.

I'm hoping they don't make desynthing an option for getting the stuff, because I'm kind of sick of Cactaur's economy being largely run by bot farmers. Granted, they'll still have some control over the market because of their excessive wealth allowing them to buy out any potentially unfarmable mats that people put up for sale, but it still won't be as bad as it currently is with DoM/W gear and food/infusions.

[Luin]

(Also if they dont want to even go into 24 man raids with secondary jobs, why do they even need gear for them? If they dont run normal content with those jobs, would they truly run raids with it?)

Well i350-370 24man in Rabanastre could skip Mateus's toads pretty handily, I've seen it done cleanly a few times, I have no idea how fast you can wreck stuff with i370 when everybody's on point. More gear you're going to do more damage, having faster and smoother runs. I understand that, but the players that need these 24mans for what they were intended, to catchup in ilvl and supplement you while gearing with tomes, aren't the players that want to, or have the time, to dedicate multiple 30-50 minute runs, and will hate not having the guarantee they'll get that loot if it *even drops*. So an average player is going to login, and half of their time is going to be spent in this one instance for that day, and even if the loot drops, you have to win it.

It should have a token system. You can win loot outright, but regardless, at the end of the run, you should get a Gear Token to trade for any 1 piece of gear from that raid, and lock it weekly. So you have x/2 loot, the chest loot, cluster+upgrade+gear tokens. So you're still incentivizing players to run it multiple times for the chest, but nobody is ever going to walk away after 20 hours in a week with nothing.

This is another heavyhanded, player hostile method to increase 24man "popularity".

As for me, I'll be part of the problem. I'll run it once a week (maybe some more at launch), and I'm going to roll on everything regardless.