Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X (11/11/2013)

[Alkimi]

I still want them to clarify if it's all gear or only weapons. Context makes me think it's only weapons, but who knows. Could be either.

At a guess it's only weapons. AF2 was, in their own words, supposed to fill in the gaps for those that had bad luck with drops in coil. There would be no reason to change that now and have people waste all those tomes they invested. But then again, SE etc.

[Nitsuki]

Hard Modes: Copperbell, Haukke manor.

Imo the 2 most godawful worst dungeons are hardmode. Jesus christ. Increasing the ilvl for allagan just makes all this content (save for vanity) useless and we'll still be running coils. Now i need to see the brd nerf happen.

[solracht]

Q36: Can you use with the Duty Roulette with a party of 2-3 people?

A36: This is a feature that can currently only be used solo. We will be updating this in the future to support parties with multiple people.

RIP FFXIV

[shidobu]

i've done both of those lately

and they aren't that bad. They are just long not bad

have you been to Aurum Vale? (thats a fucking mess)

pretty sure the roulette feature is to help the late comers while rewarding us with something we can use at end game.
How is this bad....?

[Cesaria]

Imo the 2 most godawful worst dungeons are hardmode. Jesus christ. Increasing the ilvl for allagan just makes all this content (save for vanity) useless and we'll still be running coils. Now i need to see the brd nerf happen.

I love the design of Haukke... just reminds me of the 7th guest so bloody much. We were all betting on Aurum Vale hard mode and thinking fuck god no.

[Therin]

It doesn't make sense to do Duty Roulette with more than one person. If you're building a 4-man group, you're going to farm the single dungeon which is most efficient in tomes per hour. Duty Roulette is to encourage bored solo players to use it and get put into a lower level dungeon and help out new players who are doing it for the first time.

I'm really sad we didn't get Aurum Vale and Darkhold. Those would be much more fun.

[Nitsuki]

i've done both of those lately

and they aren't that bad. They are just long not bad

have you been to Aurum Vale? (thats a fucking mess)

AV can die in a fire. Would be dumb to make that hard mode when the lvl cap difference is only 1 lvl. Lol

[Alkimi]

AV can die in a fire. Would be dumb to make that hard mode when the lvl cap difference is only 1 lvl. Lol

Fuck that place. Especially on a SCH or SMN (those that have done it know what I mean).

[Cesaria]

Tonberry king couch - adorable!

[Eanae]

It doesn't make sense to do Duty Roulette with more than one person. If you're building a 4-man group, you're going to farm the single dungeon which is most efficient in tomes per hour. Duty Roulette is to encourage bored solo players to use it and get put into a lower level dungeon and help out new players who are doing it for the first time.

I'm really sad we didn't get Aurum Vale and Darkhold. Those would be much more fun.

Don't make excuses for terrible design flaws. I can queue for random heroics with friends in WoW. I can even do it without a full party of friends. This entire patch is a slap in the face.

[solracht]

It doesn't make sense to do Duty Roulette with more than one person. If you're building a 4-man group, you're going to farm the single dungeon which is most efficient in tomes per hour.

Yes, it does, because spamming the same dungeon over and over for tomes is retarded game design. Had they been smart with their design decisions (like Blizzard), the most efficient way would be to do random dungeons (and this could easily be achieved by lowering the rewards from individual dungeons significantly).

Duty Roulette is to encourage bored solo players to use it and get put into a lower level dungeon and help out new players who are doing it for the first time.

Except for the two roulette categories dedicated to level50 content.

EDIT: Eanae was faster

[Takiwaki]

Hard mode Ultima nice

[Xanthe]

Titan Extreme looks pretty intense.

[SamanosukeShiva]

Well, im prob. the only one that CT can be done with 8 ppl and DF the rest, prob. gonna use that to gear my 3rd/4th jobs w/ my coil group.

[Datonare]

I find it odd that the ilvl req for CT is only 55, yet it drops ilvl 80 gear. With the new dungeons being added in and more ways to earn tomes, they should have put the req at at least 65, which would be a mix of DL and 60 gear. Since 16 people need to be DF'd, could get paired with someone in full WP gear lol

[Takiwaki]

Dec 17th Patch date

[shidobu]

gonna use that to gear my 3rd/4th jobs w/ my coil group.

this x100

[Rocl]

could get paired with someone in full WP gear lol

WP gear is ilvl52 tho

[Egon]

WP gear is ilvl52 tho

55

[Jem]

WP gear is ilvl52 tho

It isn't? It's 55?

http://xivdb.com/?item/3200/Vermilion-Haubergeon