Patch Notes (Preliminary)

[Rongway]

It feels like they're sacrificing AST utility just to keep them with mana (Lightspeed, Celestial Opposition used to prolong your Ewer and Lucid Dreaming). On the flip side they made us cast spells all the faster so I'm not sure how much helpful this will be? Making everything go faster sounds like it'll only make AST go OOM faster now. Oh well, we'll see how it plays.
Aspected Helios cast time reduction is a welcome change, though.

Malefic cast times have been reduced, so that cards and other oGCDs can be used between attacks whether Lightspeed is active or not. Spells still have a 2.5s GCD, so you won't be consuming MP much faster than before.

[Beckett]

"New hairstyleS have been added". I only see one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think they just copy/pasted their usual header and didn't think about how the plural doesn't make sense this time.

They never show everything that's been added in the patch notes.

That may be true of emotes, minions, furnishings etc, but I can recall a single time they haven't shown off all new hairstyles. Mostly because they only add about two hairstyles at a time. I'm pretty confident that if they were adding more than one hairstyle this patch, they would have shown more than one in the preview image.

[BillyKaplan]

Your BRD/MCH/SMN should be giving you MP anyway.

Not everyone runs in a static where those roles are guaranteed or the people playing them know how to supply you with MP when you need it. My experience with most BRDs was that they prioritize extending Foe's over support for the healer which isn't necessarily an invalid decision while MCHs are allergic to Refresh.
And you forgot BLM, which to me shows all the more you're talking about a raid environment which despite a lot of buzz on the forums is still run by a minority of the playerbase.

And besides, the recast speed is the same.

Oh. Derp. Yeah I missed that part. I guess it never really mattered to me since I didn't feel the clipping so many people complained about, maybe due to latency (shrug).

[Luin]

Not everyone runs in a static where those roles are guaranteed or the people playing them know how to supply you with MP when you need it. My experience with most BRDs was that they prioritize extending Foe's over support for the healer which isn't necessarily an invalid decision while MCHs are allergic to Refresh.
And you forgot BLM, which to me shows all the more you're talking about a raid environment which despite a lot of buzz on the forums is still run by a minority of the playerbase.

BLM shouldn't manashift unless you have no other Refreshes in the party, it's the only job that suffers a DPS loss for it (stays in UI longer). I purposely excluded BLM.
(But you also forgot RDM)
Anyway even extending Foes, Refresh is still being played, you're still getting MP and you should always be casting. Communicate with your team so you don't overlap TA/Lucid and Refresh (since I'm assuming that's your problem).

SE is pulling stupid stunts yet again. ._.

When are they not? The problem is players just assume it's a cultural difference and devs say "well players do X and Y" when we do something entirely different.

It's not because JP players play drastically different than NA, it's just that the developers have too small of a sample size. They don't test properly and they're too slow to respond to feedback. We've known this since before 1.0 even launched.

The page I linked, players in that thread hate that change. But there are NA players that love the change and there are definitely JP players that love the change. My point is nationality has no bearing on how one plays the game or thinks.

[GunksFoy]

Snip.

To the # of malefics bit, you should be able to squeeze at least 1 more per minute out because of the clipping fix. So it will increase DPS/MP usage slightly, but not significantly.

[RiyahArp]

I'll be honest I wanted new relic armor too. But face it that's not practical by any means.

This may effect Eureka in negative ways, though. relic armor was about half or so of the crystals you spent in there, and you didn't need to get level 20 to have a full relic armor set. If they don't balance this well, you could end up not needing to do any thing after hitting 40 save for the boss fate for the final step, cutting down on the time you spent there.

Not everyone is going in there to get every single relic. if they aren't careful it could make the lifespan of the content even shorter.

[Stormfur]

"New hairstyleS have been added". I only see one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I bet it's one for male, one for female -- that counts as hairstyleS, sadly.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

I think their idea for this was to increase their dps to be at least a bit above Monk with Brotherhood. It should be easier to hit 7k anyway

[Duskane]

"Enable city-state BGM in residential areas." Finally i was gonna go insane if i heard that resident music ever again