Thread: Patch 6.5 patch notes

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.

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.