Patch Notes (Preliminary)

[BillyKaplan]

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

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

The AST changes displease me on a conceptual level. Lightspeed was made all the more into an MP cooldown rather than an emergency heal. They want us to use it which is why they removed the damage debuff but I really wish they had gone another route with this instead. Not to mention that it's still only MP cost reduction, we'll see how much it'll help instead of another source of active MP refresh. 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). Oh well, we'll see how it plays. Lining up the cast time to give room for cards sounds nice.
Aspected Helios cast time reduction is a welcome change, though.

[Sebazy]

The AST changes displease me.

Quite the contrary, whilst I’d have liked to see a few more tweaks to make Noct more competitive again, the Lightspeed change is good stuff and fixes it’s lack of versatility or the need to click it off when you invariably do all your healing and want to get back to DPSing. To say it’ll be a huge boost for ASTs chasing DPS in dungeons will be an understatement.

Also note that You wont throw more malefics over a given period of time with these changes so it’s not going to change your MP sitation, rather it’s there to give AST some actual breathing space to get cards done between nukes rather than clipping and stalling their GCD endlessly.

[BillyKaplan]

Glamour plates can now be linked to gear sets.

The only real thing that matters in this patch other than the Namazu mount. Now if they could let us change glamour plates on the field and we'll be golden.

[Llus]

Quite the contrary, whilst I’d have liked to see a few more tweaks to make Noct more competitive again, the Lightspeed change is good stuff and fixes it’s lack of versatility or the need to click it off when you invariably do all your healing and want to get back to DPSing. To say it’ll be a huge boost for ASTs chasing DPS in dungeons will be an understatement.

Also note that You wont throw more malefics over a given period of time with these changes so it’s not going to change your MP sitation, rather it’s there to give AST some actual breathing space to get cards done between nukes rather than clipping and stalling their GCD endlessly.

This exactly. Biggest complaint from ASTs I know is the constant CGD clipping.

[Leloa]

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Sorry not used to the new thing of them hiding content. They used show everything before :P

[GunksFoy]

Sorry not used to the new thing of them hiding content. They used show everything before :P

Once the full patch notes are released they will, but the prelim patch notes have always just been a teaser.

[KageTokage]

The DRK changes made them a fair bit better at personal defense and enmity generation, but I feel like WAR/PLD are still going to be mostly preferred for their party mitigation.

[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.