Unless they keep making fights mandate a caster (like Ultimate) nerfing SMN and bringing the other casters in line with nerfed SMN only puts MCH into that fourth slot.Probably trying to push out SMN as the meta caster, considering they also buffed the other two.
On another note, I'm incredibly disappointed in the Unending Journey changes, even if it sounds petty. I thought we were finally going to get the other half of the cutscenes that are missing from it or an option to replay story instances, but I guess something that effects maybe 6 cutscenes at most works too.
Yes it is quite long time. But i think it is not only readying servers for the patch itself.
WoW did the weekly maintenance, now, wow continue to reboot the servers each week. Sometime, for some servers we can see the 5-10 classical minutes to reboot are not enough to go back on the servers... have to way like 30-45 minutes. So they do speed maintenance on specific servers.
FFXIV get servers which runs more than 7 days. even if they dont drink coffee waiting the next maintenance, they cant do all the servers need for years of work.
End of my speculation so : they uses those big patch maintenance to add / remove components (to, later adds instance for pyros or anything that would need this for minor patches, or even this major patch). Or simply do a big maintenance on all server.
Personnally i prefer a weekly maintenance with good timings (from 3 AM to 8-9 AM for example) but this system get a big matter : some people due to their work plays the morning (even early). I can perfectly understand the "big maintenance" FFXIV see, not what i prefer but also another good way to do it.
For the 24 hours, i think they dont need all those hours most of time. But better be sure to do all the work done in time you did announce to your customers, than being short, and unexpected issue makes you being late... really late. WoW did also have those "patch day no play" but was the bad way to have it (heh, patch will end at 1PM... oh no finally wait two more hours, and then 6 PM, not possible to log in... ... rhaaaaaaaa)
Yes, we will maybe have like so much previous patches other matters in servers the tuesday because all people will be on same spot, because they are unable to do a patch that sread people enough (or marshmallow server maybe). Yes we will probably have an emergency maintenance on thursday. YES it is illogical to do 24h maintenance to correct issues 2 days after. But maybe all i said earlier is false, and i am not engeneer or server technician.
Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?
A: [...]these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.
Well that depends entirely on if the BLM buffs can make up for the overall raid damage a MCH with Hyperdrive could have put out.
It's also good to put RDM and SMN on a more even playing field, they both fill the same role during progression, but for most groups RDM's chain rezzing isn't enough to make up for how much damage SMN can dish out while also being able to rez.
I dunno if a selfish dps can ever break the stigma of being bad. But if it could it might even break SMN into the meta for contagion burst windows. Unfortunately RDM is anti caster comp of any kind :<
This seems really excessive and counterproductive.The maximum number of role actions for jobs has been increased to ten.
The timer you can activate will be saving me so many raging moments when I was just forgetting that I needed to gather something that only is there once per Eorzean day. Also a big like for the ability to search for our minions. No more going through all those pages again and again.
Negative: Why do we truly need different races for mannequins and why did they only manage to give us one? Just another system that was not complete at its release and need further patches to make it so. (Or will be forgotten like the promised egi skins for us summoners..) Also why can all these mounts that will surely look strange fly but primal ponies still dont?
This is not the first time they have had this long of a maintenance, nor will it be the last.
I'd much prefer them taking the entire day to ensure nothing major breaks the moment patch goes live than to stuff all the content we're getting in within a 5 hour window in the dead of night.
And to be honest, in many case, you dont have to change... there is some role action mandatory, and others nearly useless you take only on specific fight... and even in those, they dont become mandatory...
And... the funniest, some jobs doesnt even have 10 role action avaible
Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?
A: [...]these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.
I may be wrong but I don't think there are any "cutscenes" missing from it - there's a lot of story missing, but that's because a lot of the story isn't told in cutscenes.On another note, I'm incredibly disappointed in the Unending Journey changes, even if it sounds petty. I thought we were finally going to get the other half of the cutscenes that are missing from it or an option to replay story instances, but I guess something that effects maybe 6 cutscenes at most works too.
Any conversation that just takes place with textboxes and emotes in 'normal gameplay' mode, with your UI and other players visible, isn't a cutscene even if it's important story progression.
It's only when you cut to a more cinematic presentation (leaving your character idling with a 'filmstrip' icon to any other players) that it counts as a cutscene.
Also any scenes that take place within dungeons (eg. if you were trying to go back and watch scenes from the ARR finale dungeons, back when new players were often forced to skip them to keep up) aren't included in chronological order in the MSQ section, but in a separate 'dungeons' tab - so some people overlooked that and didn't know where to access them.
For revisiting non-cutscene dialogue I've been using the Garland Tools website, which has a text record of all quest dialogue except voiced cutscenes.
Last edited by Iscah; 09-15-2018 at 10:14 PM.
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