Maint!

[Yugl]

Perhaps this issue:

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We have confirmed the following issues after the version update that took place on Mar. 27, 2013. Investigation and recovery work is currently underway. We ask for your patience in this matter until the issue is addressed.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

[Issue Details]
- An issue wherein the level that players can obtain the geomancy “Geo-Precision” is incorrect.
* While “Geo-Precision” can currently be obtained at level 19, it was intended to be obtained at level 14.

Maint Areas:

• Yahse
• Ceizak
• Foret
• Morimar
• Sih Gates
• Moh Gates
• Cirdas Caverns

1-130 EST; 10-1030 PDT; 5-530 GMT within these areas only. Adoulin looks fine though. GTFO!

[Kincard]

There's a post on the JP side, it says they want to fix a few things about Reive, but it mentioned a different time (they mentioned a few more hours). Instead of giving you 10 xp for 1000 damage, it will give 1 xp for 100 damage (so you have less "wasted damage") and make cures actually give you credit.

[Ophannus]

Seems like they're also readjusting how Rieve EXP works. They confirmed there's a bug with support/healing magic not accruing any points. Furthermore it seems like they will also be adjusting the quota/threshold of actions you need to do in order to begin accruing rewards from Rieves. They acknowledge that Rieve mobs can be hard without an Ochain PLD or a BLU sleep bitch, but they remind us that this is intentional. These lands are wild and untamed and only through Colonization will Rieves becomes easier, either directly through fully Colonizing an area, or indirectly by maximizing the bonuses/buffs on Ionus via Coalition expansions and Edification ranks.

[NynJa]

As long as they adjust support/healing on rieves, it'll go a long way.

And Yugl, why would adjusting those 7 areas affect when geo learns a JA? lol Not like servers are entirely going down for this. The maint strongly seems to be for Rieves

[Gokku]

How the Fuck are revies hard? I can tank 2 to 3 mobs on monk/dnc solo, sure I can't solo a review but who cares eventually people show up and I start to get more points

[Ophannus]

Not everyone can solo Rieves. I stumbled upon a Rieve and didn't want to waste my 10min penalty on leaving, problem was I was alone. I pulled a bee to the edge of the Rieve area and was soloing it fine but then shit links and you have 3 bees hitting you for 170-220, doing 1.2k Final Stings and shit. If you're not a PLD or have some crowd control(I was on DRG/RDM) you get owned pretty fast. The mobs have low HP/def but they hit like trucks without buffs.

[Gwynplaine]

I remember when WoG came out they did lots of little tweak adjustments to make Campaign suck less, it will be nice they do that here too.

[Toth]

I remember when WoG came out they did lots of little tweak adjustments to make Campaign suck less, it will be nice they do that here too.

Of course. Same thing for the new jobs and other aspects of the newer systems in place. I can't believe people really believe the jobs we get right out the gate and the new systems like Reive will not be touched.

[NynJa]

[NA] FINAL FANTASY XI Version Update (Mar. 29)
At the following time, a version update was performed on FINAL FANTASY XI.

[Date & Time]
Mar. 29, 2013 at 10:00 (PDT)

[Affected Service]
- FINAL FANTASY XI

[Update Details]
- Evaluations will occur more frequently during reives, allowing for more opportunities to receive experience and bayld.

The following issue has been fixed:
- Actions such as casting healing and enhancement spells are not evaluated during reives.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-%28Mar.-29%29

[Buffy]

Bullshit, it's not fixed at all.

[Spira]

its definitely something you can't just run into to work on..

unlike with campaign, you don't exactly have NPCs who can distract mobs or tank for you..
and the mobs here do hit like a truck lol

i'm hoping they adjust it a bit..

[Yugl]

As long as they adjust support/healing on rieves, it'll go a long way.

And Yugl, why would adjusting those 7 areas affect when geo learns a JA? lol Not like servers are entirely going down for this. The maint strongly seems to be for Rieves

That was posted roughly around when they announced the maint and GEO-spells are learned from regions (Haven't looked into GEO to know whether this spell is from new areas), but you're right that this many areas wouldn't make sense.

[Siatdiat]

So far to me, this expansion seems designed to bring players back together and less of people just soloing or dual boxing everything. When I got on and ran around the new areas, it was full of people solo getting butthurt they couldn't get around and do shit solo easily. Suck it up and let it be an MMO again, although I guess its hard after several years of just playing ffxi like its farmville.

[Toth]

The challenge is definitely back, that's for sure. Thank god !

[Siatdiat]

Hopefully people suck it up and the community the game has been lacking forever comes back.

[Guitarman]

Hopefully people suck it up and the community the game has been lacking forever comes back.

hahahahaa. oh man. Too funny. Go read the official forums for two minutes and tell me if you think that people will "suck it up".

SE went from content being a maybe 2 in difficulty (abyssea) to a 7 in one fell swoop. They're going to have to nerf things down a bit. which is ok, the challenge will still be very real, just some of the more unrealistic parts will be toned down. It happens every expac.

[Siatdiat]

There is plenty of shit for people to solo or dual/tri box all day long in the game right now. It seems to me the way to tone down Adoulin is work on colonization, not just make it easy/soloable.

[Shenrien]

There is plenty of shit for people to solo or dual/tri box all day long in the game right now. It seems to me the way to tone down Adoulin is work on colonization, not just make it easy/soloable.

3-6 people is plenty for Reives so its fairly toned down in terms of what the difficulty could be, bring on immunity to sleep to Reives and we'll have more of a fight on our hands, but would still probably be very easy to handle with 6 players, 2 on barrier, 2 on adds, bard and whm.

[NynJa]

Thats cute and all, except whos going to say "yeah sure I dont care to get any bayld, no problem brah".

[Slycer]

Thats cute and all, except whos going to say "yeah sure I dont care to get any bayld, no problem brah".

Yeah, exactly. I tried as mage, it's awful. It's hardly better now than it was before... maybe you'll get evaluated for 100-150 instead of 0-75. They should have just made the system so that everyone actively participating gets exactly the same amount. Being evaluated for effort in a team-based activity like this makes zero sense... there should just be some kind of minimum effort required to receive a standard EXP/bayld reward.

Also, the 10 minute restriction thing is fucking stupid. I've been kicked out of reives unwantingly at least three times so far. And while supposedly you have five seconds to go back into the area, I swear its more like two seconds... and by the time you see the message it's basically too late with all the battle spam anyway.