Thread: Patch 1.23 Notes up

Originally Posted by Skies

Hrm... Let's give it some analysis and see how much stuff is there.
We already know there will be a 1.23a, so let's keep it in mind they're doing a couple of lettered patches.

Six new Side-Quests.
"To Kill a Raven", the Legatus Battle quest. Presumption of mine it will be at least a reasonably long quest, I don't think the fight will be any easy either since he is categorized under 'Primal'.
New Faction Leves. Let's not underestimate that content, why introduce new leves, specially Faction ones? They have a reason, I don't know yet.
Skirmish. I think we're all retty excited about it.

The following zones have had their enemies placement altered: Brittlebark, Crooked Fork, Glory, Twinpools, Sandgate, Bearded Rock, Moraby Bay, Iron Lake, The Isles of Umbra, Woad Whisper Canyon, Bentbranch, Lynxpelt Patch, Verdant Drop.
Most of those are really out of the goddamn way, although some of them are also nearly primary spots (Bentbranch?). I will simply say it's suspicious if anything because there was no real reason to go to those places before, maybe there is now.

There are four pieces of Coliseum gear, and they are not crafted. Which means they drop from somewhere. And if they are included in the patch notes? It means that they are already avaiable (unlike say, the Officer weapons, which were datamined before they were in the patch notes, so we knew what they were before they were in the game). I don't think they are related in any way to Nael's battle as well, it makes no sense.

Player Search feature included three new areas: Rivenroad, Turtleback Island and Locke's Lie. I believe one or two of them is for Skirmish, but what about the other?

Also: Notice they did not include the Yukatas in the patch notes, nor the new dance emote, OR the summer festival quest. We know the event is coming. Simple guess is that it's coming into the next lettered patch.

There we go, a nice summing up, I do think there is a lot of content here, really.

Good point. I'm especially curious about the areas in which the enemy placement has changed. It sounds like something is going down there. And you're right: it's a really interesting mix how major low-level camps such as Bearded Rock are mixed in with (up until now) level 60-99 out of the way places like Lynxpelt Patch.

I'm really curious as to where Rivenroad is, too. Rivenroad...

Originally Posted by NefarioCall

I am also curious as to if enemy redistribution means garleans walking around..
or if it means full on strongholds. The chipset to build them exists now,
so laying it down around the game world shouldn't be too tremendous a task (comparatively).

They would have stated if there's new strongholds, plus we already have 1 for each beastmen race in game currently + garleans. Not to mention tiny outposts they have too.

Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX

They are all Level 99s now, actually.

Hell doesnt matter if the mob is lvl 69-99 gonna one shot you anyway.

Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX

Qiqirns, Goblins, Sylphs, and Sahagin don't have strongholds.

Sahagins aren't even physically in the game yet, are they?

Nope, and Qiqis and Goblins aren't central to the storyline yet so it would be odd to suddenly traverse a stronghold of theirs. Sylphs they only really need to remove the roadblock from allowing us to access their 'home' so I doubt they'd announce "we removed the tree blocking you from the sylph village"...then again SE probably would use patch note space for something like that.

xD

I don't think anyone overlooked that so much as those working on relics or the 100k gil from leve history didn't think too much of it since faction leves outside of that have been largely useless xD.

Also for people so concerned about not hitting mobs.... You can calm chocobo's down to restore HP. I am sure thats sufficient if you are unable to hit mobs because you cannot react fast enough.

I'm sorry..how many caravans have you done? a BLM (or two) can burn down the entire group of enemies before they get anywhere near the chocobo..you can't restore the HP of a chocobo whose HP is already full xD.

Originally Posted by Elexia

I don't think anyone overlooked that so much as those working on relics or the 100k gil from leve history didn't think too much of it since faction leves outside of that have been largely useless xD.

Not true! I have Scar and Defeather at Dragonhead so we can reset our cooldowns after a Garuda wipe. (Starting a leve, even shared, refreshes all your cooldowns in case you didn't know.)

(Yes. I'm mostly kidding. That's not a real use.)