Thread: Patch 1.17 Notes

Originally Posted by Kazimir

Are you guys serious with this? Way to completely noob up the game. Everything dies too fast as is and the NM's can be easily taken with less than 8 people, we don't need them to be weaker.

Those buffs are most likely there to keep the party sizes in future content under control:

-It'll be harder to do 4-7man content with less than 4, because it'll be designed around having 4-7 people with the 5% buff.
-It'll be harder to do 8man content with less than 8 people, because it'll be designed around having 8 people with the 10% buff.

I'm sorry that your already soloable/duoable Notorious Monsters that drop junk are going to remain easy to kill. Says nothing about the future direction of the game, however. Especially when we're undergoing battle, party and job changes, and there isn't any content that has been made with these new systems in mind yet.