Thread: Patch 6.5 patch notes

Originally Posted by StarRosie

we like could've used the Nullstone here. Remember, during his boss fight in Dun Scaith, Diabolos uses the Nullstone to fuse himself with Scathach to become Diabolos Hollow. If the Nullstone can fuse two high level voidsent together...could it not also separate them?

We were told what the Nullstone does: "disperse the very essence of even the most potent entity, obliterating it completely". I assume that comes with an additional note that it only works on summoned voidsent and not all kinds of entities, or that is far too dangerous a plot device to have loose – too easy a problem-solver, too dangerous a threat.

I don't believe it had anything to do with Diabolos absorbing Scathach, certainly not based on what that very plotline had told us it was for, even before the 6.X storyline made it clear that voidsent fight among themselves and consume each other to gain more power if given a chance. At most, if he was wielding the Nullstone at the time (I would have to rewatch the scene to confirm), maybe he broke her earthly form so he could absorb her soul.

In any case, yet again, we do not want to go obliterating Zeromus completely.

Originally Posted by DaichiSilurus

This argument doesn't make sense. They can't run expert or 90 roulettes because they don't have the CONTENT in that roulette. They COULD run 5/6/7/8 roulette, because they have some of the content in it unlocked, and would be put into a dungeon from the ones they have unlocked.

The new alliance roulette system looks like it will prevent them from doing a roulette containing content they have unlocked because... they levelled up too much? That's completely ridiculous, and expecting them to buy crafted gear good enough for content they don't have access to is also crazy. Unless it also checks your MSQ process then it's an imperfect solution that creates a very obvious problem for a lot of players.

even if you had said content unlock that doesn't stop you from getting the augmented gear that is available after unlocking said alliance raids if you are over level from HW, StB, or ShB. besides its ilevel locked ot its respected raid for example in CT it will locked to either ilvl 70, 80, 90 but also its easy to point out the big change and forget that the rewards have been increased depending on the alliance raid. so harder upper-level alliance raids in theory should give you better returns on your on time invested.

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.

If you play tank you're better off joining a pf than hard queuing for new alliance raids.

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.

Originally Posted by VictorSpoils

Tank queue wasn't too surprising, if a bit longer than expected. Just the fact that it lumped so many RDMs without missing a beat gave the impression most DPS were queuing as that.

(well Red Mage best mage after all)

My guess would be that on day 1 of new content, people like having lots of rez spells available to keep the raid going, since day 1 of anything tends to have more deaths than usual.