FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Updated (Sep. 11)

[Slycer]

Moving this thread to official and relocating some posts from the maintenance thread to this one. Conversation about speed run nerfs, etc., has been going on in two threads. Other thread had detailed accounts of how speed runs have been nerfed, including screenshots of gated areas, all have been moved to this post (check out the first couple pages).

[Carth]

My experience with Wanderer's Palace:

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Speedrunning's definitely impossible in WP.

[Wulfgang]

Didn't even try to speed run it after one of our other FC groups was relating their experience on TS. Took just shy of 40 minutes with no deaths, smooth run, and me nuking my ass off on WHM in pretty much every fight; I can't see how even a sick group could cut much more than 10 minutes off that. Some of the trash groups hit pretty damn hard as well; you can't just grab 3 gargoyles, a taurus, and two demons and just AOE facerape them down. They need to like halve the HP of the trash mobs here or add an additional ~20 myth that can randomly drop off the trash; right now it sucks.

Basically the new routine will be to suffer through 8 crawling AK runs every week with Meridianum being the new Philosophy farm spot. Magitek Cannons go!

[Gokulo]

They nerfed it to what it was supposed to be. I know it sucks, but don't act as if it's not worth doing now, lol.

[Vuitton]

They really should remove the stone rewards from completing the boss/dungeon and distribute them all to the trash mobs. There, done. Every mob is gonna get killed now for each of their 2-3 stones.

[Cichy]

^that would be the best way to get players to spend the most time in the dungeon also

[SephYuyX]

They nerfed it to what it was supposed to be. I know it sucks, but don't act as if it's not worth doing now, lol.

Damn, trying to find that interview from Yoshi where he basically says he took his sweet time with 2.0 so that everything was near perfect by release so he wouldn't have to break people's hearts. Said something like "This is because even if something was done wrong, and everyone gets used to it, they will complain when it's corrected, even if it's better".

[Spider-Dan]

They really should remove the stone rewards from completing the boss/dungeon and distribute them all to the trash mobs.

Or: killing trash gives you temporary key item of cracked Allegan tomestones (these disappear upon leaving the dungeon), killing the boss converts your cracked tomestones into real ones.

[Nitsuki]

I barely get to sneak in to see news at work, but i just read this nice little gem that SE ninja patched /shout w/ an auto-mute filter.

Edit: forgot pic

http://i.imgur.com/O5S4ClL.jpg

[Kairos]

Shout filter, the most awesome thing added. I was afraid my blacklist was going to fill up. I can see how the excessive gear repair cost was highly annoying too if I wasn't able to repair all my own.

[shepardG]

Word!

[Carth]

Basically the new routine will be to suffer through 8 crawling AK runs every week with Meridianum being the new Philosophy farm spot. Magitek Cannons go!

I'd say Wanderer's Palace will be the hotspot for Philosophy tomes. The dungeon is much shorter and you won't have to deal with endgame newbies watching cutscenes.

[xopher]

I barely get to sneak in to see news at work, but i just read this nice little gem that SE ninja patched /shout w/ an auto-mute filter.

Edit: forgot pic

http://i.imgur.com/O5S4ClL.jpg

Looks like it only filters you if you shout repeated identical text?

All they have to do is make a script to circumvent that.

"/shout <message> + (random integer)"

[samalis]

I'd say Wanderer's Palace will be the hotspot for Philosophy tomes. The dungeon is much shorter and you won't have to deal with endgame newbies watching cutscenes.

On Leviathan there are people making CM pre made groups and can get 100 tomes easily in 30m~ by using cannons on a bunch of trash packs.

Also I don't see a problem with how dungeons are, 30m-40m for a dungeon is kind of normal, I wish mobs would drop gil as well like 20-50g but eh what ever. You only need to do the dungeon 8 times a week, so once a day and then one extra on one of those days.

[Foxer]

Repairs cost jack shit now, so there's no point in death running other then that trash is a waste of time..and it's trash...so its always a waste of time anyways.

I'll take my speed runs over this boring shit that breaks my gear, therefor making my repairs cost more expensive than they should be, any day.

Edit: WP training still good! All you need is good gear and everything outside of 2nd path can be fully trained.

[Shuichi]

Looks like it only filters you if you shout repeated identical text?

All they have to do is make a script to circumvent that.

"/shout <message> + (random integer)"

Yep. Shout filters need further tweaking. Just zoned into Gridania to go make a crafting delivery and was greeted with this:

Spoiler: show

[Raldo]

I wonder how hard it would be to implement a system that checks to see how many people blacklist you in a short amount of time, and puts them on a sort of shout probation list until someone can look over their account.

The best defense against this sort of is something that relies on the community (a 'Report' button, etc.).

[Rocl]

ftr here are the changes to keep:
4 new hippos on floor 1; a pack after the first patrol and a random by the door
first boss door is locked until lunatics right outside are killed
an additional pack of double brontotaur + 2x hound light in front of demon wall, as well as another patrol right outside
second boss door is locked until all vodorigas are killed
there are two patrols right after the last pack on the third floor
third boss door is locked until the succubus in the last pack is killed

[Stromgarde]

I wonder how hard it would be to implement a system that checks to see how many people blacklist you in a short amount of time, and puts them on a sort of shout probation list until someone can look over their account.

The best defense against this sort of is something that relies on the community (a 'Report' button, etc.).

Very easily, but also easy to grief with.

[Vandole]

I wonder how hard it would be to implement a system that checks to see how many people blacklist you in a short amount of time, and puts them on a sort of shout probation list until someone can look over their account.

The best defense against this sort of is something that relies on the community (a 'Report' button, etc.).

Oh exploitable.

For(a=1;a<5;a++)
{
/a hey guys blacklist raldo, they are trashlords wiping my group.
}

Bam i've just asked up to 512 unique people to blacklist you and get you banned all within 5 seconds lol