Questions about the 2.1 patch

**Berabouman** · 2013-12-17 12:11

I kept on being booted off the servers due how many people were playing, so I decided to go do other stuff. Including write this post, since if I can't play FF14, I might as well post about it!

1. I know you can only get one Timeworn Map every 18 hours, but is there some kind of timer letting you know how long it is before the next one? Or you just have to remember?

2. Are the Tome bonuses for the Duty Roulette fixed for each role? Like it's always 40 Mythology for the high level one?

3. How do I tell which is the Duty Roulette daily bonus and which is just the "normal" Duty Roulette bonus?

Actually I am kind of confused about all the Duty Roulette bonuses. As far as I know there are 3

a) Bonus for using the Duty Roulette
b) Daily bonus
c) Bonus for being a wanted role

What gives you what?

4. Also, how do you know if you've already gotten the Daily Bonus?

5. What kind of experience point scaling is there if you've Level Synched in a Duty Roulette dungeon? My friend told me he was getting 500-600 xp per kill in Sastasha...what's it like in the other dungeons?

More to come as I either play (or don't play) more!

**Kari** · 2013-12-17 19:12

Bonus exp and Gil if you are the role duty roulette wants. You can only do Duty Roulette once a day. Always 40 myths for High Level, once a day.

**Berabouman** · 2013-12-17 19:57

I'm quite sure you can do the Duty Roulette more than once...I managed to log in for a bit later and someone was saying that gained like 2-3 levels in the Roulette.

**blowfin** · 2013-12-17 22:48

The Roulette is once a day per category.
- High Level dungeons (myth reward)
- Low level Dungeons (myth and philo?)
- Guildhests (Exp/gil)
- Story Quests (Philo)

Pretty sure you can repeat, but there's no daily bonus awarded again until reset.

The bonus simply won't show up in Duty Finder if you've already received it for the day. Kind of confusing at first because there's a lot of information there, but it seems easy enough to digest once you get your head around it.

**Seravi Edalborez** · 2013-12-17 22:51

Yeah, boosted EXP from the 2nd+ run of a roulette run is placebo. You'd get the same presumably just by queuing for that instance.

Actually, does roulette put you into like a "roulette-only" list, or will you be matched with people who were searching for the dungeon you end up in?

**blowfin** · 2013-12-17 22:58

Actually, does roulette put you into like a "roulette-only" list, or will you be matched with people who were searching for the dungeon you end up in?

I'd assume it matches you with the "normal" queue too. Don't see why they'd have it so that your effective pool of players to form a party is reduced.

**Shadowhusky** · 2013-12-17 23:25

Originally Posted by Seravi Edalborez

Yeah, boosted EXP from the 2nd+ run of a roulette run is placebo. You'd get the same presumably just by queuing for that instance.

Actually, does roulette put you into like a "roulette-only" list, or will you be matched with people who were searching for the dungeon you end up in?

It seems to be the normal queue of who ever is searching for a dungeon. Got put into a party with someone that never did the dungeon before.

Going to hijack this thread to ask a question. Have the cacutar and bomb earrings been given out yet? I haven't played in awhile and saw nothing in my mailbox.

**Seravi Edalborez** · 2013-12-17 23:30

Originally Posted by Shadowhusky

Going to hijack this thread to ask a question. Have the cacutar and bomb earrings been given out yet? I haven't played in awhile and saw nothing in my mailbox.

They were at a moogle vendor in the cities. Unsure if they're still there. I remember one being in the center of Ul'dah (gold court), other at Apkallu Falls in grid.

**Rocl** · 2013-12-17 23:30

You missed them I'm fairly certain. They advertised a few times you had until 2.1 to get them.

**The Stig** · 2013-12-18 06:03

The dungeon "improved" EXP, not sure if affected by roulette or not, I assumed the big handout is once a day as I keep bumping into people who claim to be getting a dumb amount of EXP (in the 100-200k region); I didn't get it as I did the low level roulette as a level 50 first to pick up the delicious tomes, then I queued on MNK low level roulette after.

Copperbell Mines, I was MNK34, another guy there, a SCH was level 40. We both got the same 950 something EXP (with the +100% value added; 950 is final)... if I remember correctly, the final value was 957... we both read out the exact same value, so I figured it was the 100% bonus on top.

I'm presuming the exact 100-200k values were the bonus EXP handed out at the end of the roulette if you're under level 50, and this is once a day [affected by your level]. The exp per kill mentioned above I think is normal and regardless of roulette bonus or not.

I can confirm that the roulette basically works like this (self explanatory but it's easier to see)

You sign up, the game searches for ANY available queue. Usually instigated by a low level/newer player queueing for a dungeon to progress through the story.
It slides you into said queue.
Others do the roulette queue too, and it quickly forms a party and starts the dungeon.

In any scenario, it can start its own queue if the above condition doesn't exist.

As someone said last night, DPS queues were less than 5 minutes, though you're not guaranteed to get into a dungeon closer to your level. But if you're just doing it once a day, taking the 100-200k handout for an easier dungeon is preferable to manually queueing for a higher level dungeon and failing in my opinion.

HINT: When you do use the roulette, when the queue pops and you can enter, you can somewhat estimate what you're going into if you look at the top left corner of the window, it shows the level of the content... kinda destroys the purpose of the roulette in my opinion because if I see something like 35 (Qarn/Cutters Cry) I'm going to turn it down haha... (even though they're not too hard, if I don't have a large amount of time to spend in there I'm not willing to babysit people through it).

Oh, unless I read incorrectly, I swear it popped "16" and I thought to myself "Tam-Tara Deepcroft!" but instead got thrown into Copperbell Mines... I know 6 and 8 are similar but oh well, just something that stuck in my mind.

Likewise, I queued as tank for the main scenario (and ticked in progress), saw the level 50 icon and the 1/5 indicator. I don't recall the amount of bosses for the last 2 story dungeons but it was either CM or Prae... ended up in CM with an overexcited main tank; rather than clashing heads with him I just went all submissive and listened/replied civilly to get it done... 300 philos at the end of it though (200 for roulette bonus, 100 for the dungeon)... was rather nice.

**Ratatapa** · 2013-12-18 07:50

My search comment is set to all 4 language but english by default

Why does when i make a party search event, my default language shows as JP?

**Illsathe** · 2013-12-18 10:19

I did the low level duty finder roulette on my paladin 32 to give it a try. Ended up in Copperbell Mines with the same exp per critter as The Stig mentioned. At the end, I got a bonus of 92.5k exp and 130-ish storm seals. I think there was some gil too, but I don't remember the amount.

The mobs were also dropping 8 or 9 gil each.

I want to say that the bonus was more or less equal to the amount gained through the dungeon, but I wasn't paying attention to the number that much.

I don't think gil drops changed in WP (ran afterwards to test out the monk changes).

**gaogaostegosaurus** · 2013-12-18 18:56

Does anyone have any before/after exp comparisons for the dungeons? Kind of curious as to how much the exp got buffed (it did, right?) because after 4 jobs on FATEs, SO don't want to do any more.

edit: dug some numbers out of old screenshots; I'm at work so I can't try them out myself but perhaps they can be used as a data point.

469 (+100%) in Toto-rak as 27 ACN (presumably the mite mobs right before the boss)

10,000 for completion in Cutter's Cry, 10,000 for newcomer bonus
7542 (+53%) for Chimera itself

**Berabouman** · 2013-12-19 07:00

So the huge EXP bonus is only once a day? That kinda makes sense...it's really quite huge, I got 132,000 doing Satasha on a 37 PLD.

**Ratatapa** · 2013-12-19 08:14

What time does the Duty Roulette bonus reset?

**Jamison** · 2013-12-19 09:42

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

What time does the Duty Roulette bonus reset?

Haven't verified myself but someone said 10am EST, same as the other resets.

**Dathus** · 2013-12-19 10:34

Originally Posted by Berabouman

So the huge EXP bonus is only once a day? That kinda makes sense...it's really quite huge, I got 132,000 doing Satasha on a 37 PLD.

The big bonus EXP is, but you'll get a lot of EXP running Satasha again and again in roulette. It's to balance out the EXP you gain from mobs in the dungeon and at the end so it's relevant with a dungeon of your bonus.

I just got 78k from finishing it as a 31 PLD.

**Scythiroth** · 2013-12-19 13:05

Originally Posted by blowfin

I'd assume it matches you with the "normal" queue too. Don't see why they'd have it so that your effective pool of players to form a party is reduced.

This is correct. Leveling Gladiator at the moment and got Commendations in normal dungeon queues.

**gaogaostegosaurus** · 2013-12-19 19:34

Originally Posted by Jamison

Haven't verified myself but someone said 10am EST, same as the other resets.

0000JPT (EST time will change due to Daylight Savings time changes)

Did one right after the other and was like lol, exps

**arus2001** · 2013-12-19 20:43

Anyone somewhere extract the Sirius music yet? Kinda sucks it dies out a couple minutes in whereas HM both keeps going, but also has its own battle theme. :/

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