FINAL FANTASY XIV Hotfixes (Jul. 4)

[NOC_NA]

Playable Content

• The quest required for promotion to second lieutenant within a Grand Company has been changed.
  
  

  	Before Changes		After Changes
  Quest Name	Twisted Beliefs	→	Gilding the Bilious
  Requirement	Clear Amdapor Keep	→	Clear the Aurum Vale
  Quest Level	Level 50	→	Level 47

  * Players who have accepted the quest Twisted Beliefs but have yet to clear Amdapor Keep are required to abandon the quest and accept the quest Gilding the Bilious.
  
  
• Airships and ferry fares have been reduced.
  * Chocobo porter fees will remain the same.
  
  
• Experience received from miner and botanist guildleves has been increased.
  
  
• Additional details regarding quest progression have been added to the journal entries for the subquest A Relic Reborn.

Battle System

• In addition to improving instance server stability, additional servers have been added for the following duties:
  • The Wanderer's Palace
  • Amdapor Keep
• The number of Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy awarded for completing the following duties has been increased:
  • The Wanderer's Palace
  • Amdapor Keep
• The number of Allagan Tomestones of Mythology awarded for completing the following duties has been increased:
  • The Wanderer's Palace
  • The Howling Eye (Hard)
  • The Navel (Hard)
• Enemies in the following duties will now drop gil.
  • The Wanderer's Palace
  • Amdapor Keep
  • Castrum Meridianum
  • The Praetorium
• Mechanics and enemy positioning have been adjusted in the following duties:
  • The Wanderer's Palace
  • Castrum Meridianum
• Karakul can now be found in the following areas:
  • Coerthas Central Highlands - Dragonhead
  • Coerthas Central Highlands - Whitebrim
  • Coerthas Central Highlands - Providence Point
• The respawn rate of diremites in the North Shroud has been adjusted.

Items

• The following changes have been made to the materia melding interface:
  • The order of categories in the pulldown menu has been adjusted.
  • A confirmation window will be displayed when converting currently equipped gear into materia.
  　
• Unused gear will be bound to a character after engaging in battle, crafting, or gathering even once, regardless of item level.
  　
• Walnut bread is no longer sold by the Shopkeep NPC located in Eastern Thanalan - Drybone (X:13, Y:24).

System

• Experience gained by botanists and miners from level 16 onwards has been increased.
  
• The locations of level 30 gathering points in the Central Shroud have been adjusted.
  
• Enhancing effects and enfeebling effects applied to another player or enemy by your character will now always appear to the left of all other status effects underneath the target bar.
  
• Players will only be allowed to create a maximum of eight characters per service account every twenty-four hours.
  * We have confirmed that RMT groups have been abusing low-level quests to acquire gil by repeatedly recreating characters. We realize this change also affects our customers, and we ask for your understanding as we continue to implement measures to prevent RMT activities.

The following issues have been addressed:

• An issue wherein players were able to abandon the quest to unlock levequests.
• An issue wherein a player walking within range of a FATE while progressing certain levequests would cause information such as the timer and progress counter to not update properly (PlayStation 3 version only).
• An issue wherein players were unable to join an instance via the Duty Finder under certain circumstances.
• An issue wherein players occasionally got stuck in the terrain while using the Chocobo Porter.
• An issue wherein players were detected by monsters while using the Chocobo Porter.
• An issue wherein aggro lines would occasionally not display properly during the instance "The Howling Eye (Hard)."
• An issue wherein players were able to fight monsters in the instanced dungeon "Amdapor Keep" without taking any damage.
• An issue wherein the Duty Finder would replenish party members for the instanced dungeon "Amdapor Keep" after defeating the last boss.
• An issue wherein monsters in the instanced dungeon "Binding Coil of Bahamut - Turn 5" became immobilized under certain circumstances.
• An issue wherein pets were unable to enter a specific room in the instanced dungeon "Haukke Manor."
• An issue wherein chests in the instanced dungeon "The Sunken Temple of Qarn" did not include thaumaturge and arcanist weapons within the list of possible rewards.
• An issue wherein players were not weakened after getting raised.
• An issue wherein players were unable to use their pet’s actions while casting a spell.
• An issue wherein the target rings and area-of-effect predictors did not display under certain circumstances.
• An issue wherein Eos/Selene did not use Embrace to heal players under certain circumstances.
• An issue wherein if a player crafted immediately after receiving benefits from food, the effect of crafting actions were increased by one turn.
• An issue wherein players occasionally lost the ability to control their character when trying to meld a materia that was restored from a cracked materia.
• An issue wherein a player’s game client would crash, or they would lose control of their character, if they initiated a trade with another player and the opposing player canceled the trade.
• An issue wherein a player changing areas after their companion is KO’d would not be able to summon their companion.
• An issue wherein players were able to target their minion even if it was filtered through the character configuration settings.
• An issue wherein a player would occasionally target a pet before an enemy when attempting to target the nearest NPC/object.
• An issue wherein if a player attempted to perform a ground-target action, a point on the ground was selected before the player actually chose it.
• An issue wherein the game client would occasionally crash if a player inserted text via the “Enter” key under certain circumstances.
• An issue wherein a player’s game client would occasionally crash if they moved the Duty List while in the HUD layout mode and then logged out of the game.
• An issue wherein if a player had their screen resolution set to 480p, their chat window would shift to the right every time they logged into the game (PlayStation 3 version only).
• An issue wherein the directional pad of a gamepad would be non-responsive when using a certain gamepad (Windows version only).
• An issue wherein a character’s face would occasionally not display properly if the character was created using saved appearance data.
• An issue wherein a player would occasionally lose control of the game during the character creation process.
• An issue wherein a player would occasionally lose control of the game if they continuously attempted to login to a World that is full.
• An issue wherein the MP value displayed on the “/macroicon” icon does not change when a player gained a level.
• An issue wherein the text command “/macroicon ‘Jump’” did not display the correct icon.
• An issue wherein the icon displayed via “/macroicon” did not turn red when the target was not within range.
• An issue wherein a player would occasionally lose control of the game when they executed the text command “/hotbar” or “/crosshotbar” via their chat window.
• An issue wherein the job levels (summoner and scholar only) displayed in the Edit Search Info interface was incorrect.
• Grammatical errors within the text found in the Duty List, Journal, and NPC dialogue.

Countermeasures have been implemented for the following issues:

• An issue wherein a player would occasionally not be able to progress within an instanced battle.
• An issue wherein an NPC would occasionally become non-responsive while progressing a quest.
• An issue wherein the background music and the sound effects would not play properly under certain circumstances.
• An issue wherein the opening would not play under certain circumstances and prevented the game from starting properly.

[NOC_NA]

The following issue has been addressed.

• An issue wherein certain instances occurring in the Japanese data center Worlds would not operate correctly, such as doors in the instance dungeon "The Wanderer's Palace" not opening.

[NOC_NA]

The following feature has been implemented.

- A maximum limit has been placed on the number of players who can be in one area.
* If you attempt to move into an area which has already reached its maximum limit, you will receive a message saying you cannot enter that area. Should this happen, please wait awhile and try again.

The following issues have been addressed.

- When leaving the Duty Finder under certain circumstances, the player sometimes became undetectable to monsters.

- In the instanced dungeon "Amdapor Keep," monsters would become immobile under certain circumstances.

- After the 2.05 patch, players would occasionally receive the “90000 Error” or “Square Enix Account Authentication Error” and be disconnected from the server.

[NOC_NA]

The following issues were addressed.

- When using the Unending Journey, certain cutscenes would not replay.

- The client would not close properly when exiting the game.

- In “The Binding Coil of Bahamut – Turn 5,” enemies would become immobile under certain circumstances.

- Certain graphics in the seasonal event “All Saints’ Wake” would not display properly if Glare was turned on under Graphics Settings in the System Configuration menu.

[NOC_NA]

- Items that can be obtained from the two chests in “The Binding Coil of Bahamut – Turn 1” have been adjusted.

- Addressed a coding issue which occasionally caused a server to crash during a trade.

- An issue wherein a player would lose control of their character while crafting has been addressed.

[NOC_NA]

The following issues were addressed.
- Players are sometimes able to wear combinations of equipment that are not normally possible or intended.
- Target markers and action bars are sometimes not displayed correctly.

The following countermeasure has been implemented.
- Implemented countermeasure against issue wherein communications would sometimes experience lag.

[NOC_NA]

-Resolved an issue wherein spawning FATEs listed below, were being affected by the other FATEs occurring in the same area.
We have also implemented a countermeasure even where there are a high number of participants, it will be easier to gain contribution.

The Storm Caller
He's a Firestarter
Making Waves
Stopping the Shakes
Fallen Corpses Writhe in Style

-The following issues were addressed.
-An issue wherein certain circumstances, the quest “A Relic Reborn (Artemis Bow)" becomes impossible to progress.

[NOC_NA]

The following issues have been resolved:
　•　An issue wherein certain monsters in the “Walk of Lament” area of the instanced dungeon “Labyrinth of the Ancients” would appear after incorrect time intervals.
　•　An issue wherein the game client becomes unresponsive after targeting alliance members in the instanced dungeon “Labyrinth of the Ancients”.
　•　An issue wherein players were unable to progress through the quest “Most Adorable Death Ever”.
　•　An issue wherein the monster “Ultima Weapon” did not perform certain actions during the instanced battle “The Minstrel's Ballad: Ultima's Bane”.
　•　An issue wherein ground-targeting abilities could not be used in the instanced dungeon “The Binding Coil of Bahamut - Turn 1”.
　•　An issue wherein, during the boss battle in the instanced dungeon “The Wanderer’s Palace,” if the monster “Tonberry Cutter” reached 0 HP while rendered immobile from an effect such as “Stun”, it remained at 0 HP and could not be defeated.
　•　An issue wherein class-specific Bonus Rewards were incorrectly granted to non-applicable classes when using the Duty Roulette.
　•　An issue wherein some ground-targeting actions could not be seen when the Battle Effects Settings option was set to Simple.
　•　An issue wherein the player’s sheathed weapon would not become unsheathed when casting spells.
　•　An issue wherein the Vote Dismiss function could not be used on players who had logged out while in instanced areas.
　•　An issue wherein Disciples of the Land were able to obtain additional timeworn maps without waiting 18 hours (Earth time) after having already obtained a timeworn map.
　•　An issue wherein players could see the quantity of out of reach items at unspoiled gathering points.
　•　An issue wherein, when using the “Sort” feature for the Retainer, the order of items was not saved correctly.
　•　An issue wherein gear would not “Bind” after a PvP match in the Wolves’ Den.
　•　An issue wherein dyeing the items “Hetairos Mail” and “Hetairos Breeches” would render portions of the character invisible.
　•　An issue wherein, during synthesis of a recipe that requires only a single ingredient, when that ingredient is selected, the icon would not be displayed.
　•　An issue wherein it was possible to catch nameless fish.
　•　An issue wherein using the Ctrl+C command in the Chat Log would not copy text correctly.
　•　An issue wherein the incorrect numerical value was displayed in the devaluation timer for plots of land on Legacy Worlds.
　•　An issue wherein the player housing servers would be down under certain circumstances.
　•　An issue wherein, if a character used the aesthetician’s services to change their hairstyle or apply face paint, their Mark of the Twelve disappeared.
　　o　It is possible to resolve this issue by using the “/legacymark off” command followed by the “/legacymark on” command.
　•　Text and other grammatical errors within the text found in the Duty List, Journal, and NPC dialogue. (※EN/FR versions only)
　•　An issue wherein pet names would not appear in the Chat Log after using pet actions. (※EN/FR versions only)

The following adjustments have been made:
　•　Additional instances have been placed for the instanced dungeon “Labyrinth of the Ancients”.
　•　When using the Duty Finder, players are now unable to withdraw while in combat.
　•　When using the Party Search function, the Role criteria is now set to Free by default.
　•　In "The Wolves’ Den", the preparation time before a PvP match has been reduced to 1 minute (previously 2 minutes).
　•　In "The Wolves’ Den", the amount of time after which players are automatically withdrawn due to unresponsiveness has been reduced to 2 minutes.
　•　The bonus attributes for the items below were changed in err, and have reverted to their original values.
　　o　Allagan Circlet of Healing
　　　　MND+18　VIT+18　Determination+15　PIE+11
　　o　Allagan Breeches of Healing
　　　　VIT+29　MND+29　PIE+26　Critical Hit Rate+24
　　o　Allagan Boots of Casting
　　　　INT+18　VIT+18　Critical Hit Rate+21　Accuracy+15

Known issues:
　•　An issue wherein the game client terminates abruptly. (PlayStation®3 version only)

[NOC_NA]

The following issues have been addressed.

- An issue wherein, during fieldcraft levequests, the target item would not display on the Logging & Harvesting list and the quest could not be progressed.

- An issue wherein, when transferring to an instance, an error is displayed and the instance cannot be entered properly.


Countermeasures have been taken for the following issues.

- An issue in the Wolves' Den wherein it is hard to target a character who is jumping.
*Because this is a temporary fix, there will only be a partial mitigation of the issue. Further addressing of this issue is planned in Patch 2.15, which should be implemented in late January.

- An issue wherein the launcher cannot perform the version update under circumstances.

[NOC_NA]

The following issues have been addressed.

• An issue wherein the Dimension Blade fragment and Savage Arc of Triumph monument are unable to be put up for sale on the market.
• An issue wherein making a class change or job change will cause the client to crash. (PlayStation®3 version only)

A countermeasure has been implemented for the following issue.

• Certain circumstances sometimes cause the server to crash.