Thread: Patch 6.5 patch notes

Originally Posted by hynaku

After the changes to alliance raid roulette I sure won't ever be using it ever again. Pretty sure it be harder for the new players that need Crystal Tower Raid for the MSQ.

Why wouldn't you?

Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

because they cant do the mecanics past CT

It's just so weird to me. Weeping City is one of my all time favs. All of Ivalice. All of Nier (even if the story itself was... whatever). But people just wanna do CT on repeat....

Originally Posted by hynaku

After the changes to alliance raid roulette I sure won't ever be using it ever again. Pretty sure it be harder for the new players that need Crystal Tower Raid for the MSQ.

It won't be. The roulettes prioritize new players in a direct queue over people just running roulettes. CT will still be the most common raid. It just won't be the only one.

The higher raids also give nice glamours and I'm still trying to get quite a few of them. For CT I got all of it ages ago.

A lot of nice QoL changes in this patch. Thank you!

Item level sync has been set to IL 570 in the duty "The Final Day."

Experience points received upon defeating [alliance raid] bosses has been increased.
* This adjustment does not apply to the Labyrinth of the Ancients, Syrcus Tower, or the World of Darkness.
Bonus experience points received from Duty Roulette: Alliance Raids has been increased.
* This adjustment does not apply to the Labyrinth of the Ancients, Syrcus Tower, or the World of Darkness.
The number and types of Allagan tomestones received have been adjusted.

Item level restrictions based on class or job level at the time of duty registration will now be applied for Duty Roulette: Alliance Raids.

A circle will now appear on the field indicating the point which the losing team must reach with the tactical crystal in order to take the lead.

Items purchased from the Online Store can now be stored in the armoire.

Teleport destination tabs can now be sorted by region or by expansion.
* You may adjust tab preferences in the Teleport Settings menu.

In the event that server congestion is preventing travel to a particular World, requests to visit that World will now be canceled automatically.

I'm glad we got an update about them working on the removal of columns and such inside of houses. I was worried that they'd go radio silent and we'd never hear about it again or not til post 7.0 only to be told sorry it's not doable.

Patch day takeaways:

1. Expert and Mentor Roulette were missing from DF until the new duties were unlocked. Don't recall that being the case in the past.
2. Only one Custom Delivery person (Zhloe) had a crafting bonus this week, even though it's supposed to be at least 2 people now. Could have something to do with the new girl, but of course she couldn't and didn't have the bonus.
3. Queue'd for Thaleia early this morning as a tank and it was a 30+ minute wait. Swapped to RDM and it took 30 seconds (inside were, wait for it, 7 RDMs and a single melee). There was no first time bonus either. If that's normal for current alliance raids then I somehow didn't notice before.
4. Final boss intro cutscene in the new dungeon is LONG. It rivals the Shiva trial.
5. Bits of lag and long loading screens here and there, probably to be expected.
6. Y'shtola cutscenes are still cringe.

Originally Posted by VictorSpoils

Queue'd for Thaleia early this morning as a tank and it was a 30+ minute wait. Swapped to RDM and it took 30 seconds (inside were, wait for it, 7 RDMs and a single melee). There was no first time bonus either. If that's normal for current alliance raids then I somehow didn't notice before.

Pretty common, in regards to the tank/RDM queue times. There's 3 tanks per alliance raid instance and 15 DPS.

Originally Posted by VictorSpoils

Queue'd for Thaleia early this morning as a tank and it was a 30+ minute wait. Swapped to RDM and it took 30 seconds (inside were, wait for it, 7 RDMs and a single melee). There was no first time bonus either. If that's normal for current alliance raids then I somehow didn't notice before.

Too many people thinking "if I tank, I'll get in faster" and suddenly everyone is trying to be tank and the other roles get neglected.

One thing I would really like them to change with the queuing system is to show the entire status of the queue in the "forming party" HUD element. Right now, the numbers only count your current party and don't count over the maximum, so I assume currently if there were 10 tanks, 10 healers and 10 DPS queuing for an alliance raid, the first three tanks in the queue would see 3/3, 6/6, 10/15; the next three tanks would see 3/3, 4/6, 0/15 and the tenth tank might think they're the only person queuing for the whole raid.

I would like this to change so that everyone would see 10/3, 10/6, 10/15 and it is easier to identify where the gaps are and what role you should switch to to get in faster.