Thread: Patch 2.2 Notes (Preliminary) (03/21/2014)    

Zero pairs of blm legs and feet. Well that is a lie we got blm feet 3 weeks back, after I caved and bought my myth the week before. I'm like the only real blm in my group. Tho we have seen body and hands a fuck ton, lots of new smn and blm fighting with me for the pants due to t2 being a whore

Originally Posted by Alkar

Yeah because announcing it 3 days later will make a huge difference. They've announced more controversial stuff in this letter than "Coil drop system is the same", he's probably just covering up something else that he didn't want to announce right away. He seemed to imply that there is something they haven't revealed yet so save the torches and pitchforks for next week.

Well I still have 3 months of sub so I am going to see how it pans out next week wether I like it or not, but it just seems weird to me that you would bother to announce that you're going to remove the tome=same ilvl as coil in the live letter, yet not bother to mention how you will provide a better alternative than rng. And another reason I find it weird that it wasn't mentioned in the live letter is this:

Originally Posted by Obsidian

It's not rocket science. Letting people get one piece a week would let them gear a job in three months. That's roughly the gap between major patches.

Drop systems are easy to make, the only person who made it rocket science was Tanaka.

Gearing taking anywhere between 3-6 months is fine to me, considering it is outclassed in 6 months by new coil turns. Gives you the chance to gear 1-2 jobs really well.

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

Want to believe, trust me

But 100 person only to beat t5 (lol)

Devs always underestimate good players

Let's not forget this estimate was made back before twister was nerfed - when it's timing was very precise, unforgiving and it had a tether.

In regards to the coil discussion on drops: for the most part I have been lucky, but even after our first turn 1 in early september I still have yet to see a healing earring. My BLM just got his weapon after 19 kills... And so I can see the frustration, but I guess we can't do anything at the moment besides wait and see if he has another trick up his sleeve.

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

Want to believe, trust me

But 100 person only to beat t5 (lol)

Devs always underestimate good players

You're comparing trying simply to beat content with obtaining items that is more likely to be weekly gated content. Not the same. So not only might we have to first beat the content regularly, the drops may run on a RNG *AND* be gated.

Originally Posted by Lucavi

T2 is for silence because its not mandatory to bring either plds or brds in DF. They kind of had to nerf it unless they wanted to promote nothing but enrage strat. Why would they touch T5 outside of echo buff?

Late but: rereading again and oldcoil, along with Levi/Mog Extreme, can only be DF'd if you have a full party. So they're just nerfing HV for same reason they nerfed Brayflox dragon's poison: just because.

They made Antidotes work on that poison too though.

Originally Posted by Seravi Edalborez

Late but: rereading again and oldcoil, along with Levi/Mog Extreme, can only be DF'd if you have a full party. So they're just nerfing HV for same reason they nerfed Brayflox dragon's poison: just because.

A full party doesn't have to contain a Pld, Brd or Mnk, though, unless I'm missing something you're saying. You can full party X2 war, X2 blm, X2 drg and two heals and have 0 silence coverage. That's premade or DF.

Edit: Unless you're saying that you're only getting into the DF with a complete full party, in which case my point loses most of its ground, although a cadre of idiots could still -ATTEMPT- coil with the above party.

Originally Posted by Niiro

How many people actually carry around Antidotes.

(absence of question mark deliberate)

I had a couple from just story (side?) quests going up on my alt, like 5 antidotes which was enough for all the Brayflox's I ever ran without a SCH. But point taken >.>

Originally Posted by Lucavi

Edit: Unless you're saying that you're only getting into the DF with a complete full party, in which case my point loses most of its ground, although a cadre of idiots could still -ATTEMPT- coil with the above party.

Which would be no different than it is now except you don't have to be in Wineport to enter.

^ So again, once echo kicks in and people can go solo, the non-silence random DF build becomes far more of an actual setup. They had to do something about that, and that's why I initially questioned that kind of fight mechanic that basically begs for specific classes to deal with.