Thread: Patch 5.2 Notes (Preliminary)

The new crafted gear will be ilvl 480, since the new gear cap will be ilvl500. The price will depend on your server/datacenter's market but will probably range from a few million to a few hundred thousand gil a piece for the first week or two and then start to drop.

I do wonder with the change to the market board tax system ( no longer get a discount based on if you buy from the city a retainer is in):

What is the point of having retainers set to a specific city? Seems to me that it's yet another rushed band aid fix without much thought to the ramifications of other systems.

A system that has been in place at least since 2.0 when I started playing. Why have they determined that this is the right system to change at this time 5 years after the fact?

Originally Posted by Deceptus

I do wonder with the change to the market board tax system ( no longer get a discount based on if you buy from the city a retainer is in):

What is the point of having retainers set to a specific city? Seems to me that it's yet another rushed band aid fix without much thought to the ramifications of other systems.

A system that has been in place at least since 2.0 when I started playing. Why have they determined that this is the right system to change at this time 5 years after the fact?

Indeed there will be no point now, just set them all in whatever city you want to since there's no longer any benefit from putting them in the different cities except for the market tax reduction discount for selling. Also indeed what was the point of change something that's been there since 2.0 what why change it now. Just like the Gil reward from doing collectibles in there since I'm assuming Heavensward so why change it now.