Patch 1.15b Notes (02/17/2011)

[Croy]

Yeah they nerfed physical EXP, its now more in line with DoW and DoL. for every 50 SP you get, you get 118 EXP or something now. Normal SP is unchanged and that's all that matters to me. Also for those wondering when the content patch will hit, its probably next week on Monday. They only posted it on the log in notification after you enter the game but a maintenance is coming, its a super long maintenance too, also smack dab in the middle of NA prime time. 17:00 Feb 21st to 3:00 Feb 22nd PST, and 1:00 to 11:00 GMT Feb 22nd

[The Q]

That's good news. It would make some sense to do it at the beginning of the week to have that whole week to work on what they fucked up.

Actually that is for the login maintenance shit.

February more like Failbruary.

[Croy]

Unless there is a mix up on maintenance times... the times I posted actually are specifically for FFXIV and not for the account services. The Log in maintenance begins at 2 PM PST, the FFXIV maintenance begins at 5 PM, they both end at the same time yet you still can't play FFXIV during the account maintenance time either. They specifically put two separate times up because they are both getting separate maintenance's. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense, they would have just said "Square-Enix Account Manager under maintenance, FFXIV not availible during so and so time", instead they specified FFXIV as the one going under maintenance.

[qpoiuwer]

They updated the patch notes and now the party change is ambiguous. They removed the part about SP capping at 8 members, so now there's no way to tell if you actually get less exp with 9 people vs 8 or if it just means the bonus gained from the 9th person has less of an impact than from the 8th person.

[Grey Jorildyn]

8 is just a weird number. Shoulda just made it five and limited the aoe to that party only (like sac/cure), the allowed something like groups of three parties and alliances of like six parties or some crap. Eight just sucks. That number only appeals to leve groups and nothing else. Someone insert the seven minute abs video here or something.

[Toth]

Why did he talk about how he was happy people were enjoying Behest and then....nerf it? I just did a full Behest and before patch, it was a fun 6-7k. We barely got 4k now...

Am I right in that even if you have behest status that only the party that claims the mobs gets the exp/SP?

[Amastacia]

Guess he wants to encourage smaller parties doing Behest simultaneously rather than everyone teaming up? Stupid, but could be what he's thinking.

Or, possibly, judging by some of the questions on the new poll, and some of the things in the letter to the producer, they've done an about face on how they want to design their content and battle system going forward, and released this early to start modifying player behavior, so that it's not as abrupt a shift when they actually release some content 3-6 months from now.

Heavy-handed, very typically JP, and probably thinking it's for the best in the long run.

I'd be fine with the change provided a group of 8 and a group of 7 doing a Behest could get the same XP at the end as a group of 15. Without the total amount going down from pre-patch (which is the part that won't be happening).

[Hyan]

This nerf would have been better if applied with the other changes that are planned for the system, like adjustments to period of time between behest resets (and included in the more substantial monthly patch, instead of the small one).

But fuck it, the end result is what's gonna matter, hopefully he can get there sooner than what we've seen so far though.

[Patriarch]

after all these years, i do not understand how people can still be excited about upcoming stuff from SE.

Atm I expect pure shit in the future, this way when they manage to do something great, it will be a pleasant surprise.

[Alkar]

after all these years, i do not understand how people can still be excited about upcoming stuff from SE.

Atm I expect pure shit in the future, this way when they manage to do something great, it will be a pleasant surprise.

Huh? Last year in FFXI was great. If anything, SE has been releasing great stuff lately. Ironically, FFXIV had the old team at the wheel for release.

[Hyan]

after all these years, i do not understand how people can still be excited about upcoming stuff from SE.

Only XIV has been a total disappointment lately. Other games are 'bad' only subjectively. It's been this way for quite a long time really.

This year looks pretty good as well.

[Luna Flower]

To settle the confusion this little patch was just in preparation for the BIG patch coming up. The BIG patch will include a lot more of what they had in the letter from the producer. I know they are horrible at communication...... but we all knew this from FFXI.

[Patriarch]

@ Alkar and Hyan, you both have a point about XI, althought the reason I failed to mention that is because I haven't played in the last year lol.