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[Ayn]

Needs Galka heads photoshopped in.

[Tarage]

BG needs a like button.

[Zirael]

So, it seems the last chapter VW suprise is that it got nuked from this version update:
http://translate.googleusercontent.c...liA#post298409
Ito is talking about 'few weeks' of postponment, if I'm reading it right.
Anyone care to remind me any other reasons to log in this evening?

[Toth]

That is terribly disappointing. I guess Legion is it...

[arus2001]

Oh lawd...

[Draylo]

I'm not even excited about Legion... Just not much to look forward to this update for me, I guess not needing a lot of proc jobs for the older fights in VW if the light cap thing is this update.

[Khamsin]

Imagine if they postpone Legion, too. But there's still plenty of other content, like the crafting caps and Meteor/Araise (were they adding Araise yet?) among other things.

[Slycer]

Disappointing, but not terribly surprising. All of the previous Voidwatch battles (except Botulus and Ig-Alima) were on the test server weeks before they were added to the game. The new mobs weren't even added to the dats on the test server until a week or two ago, and the fights themselves were never added. Hopefully Legion doesn't suck, I guess. It's possible this post only refers to the Provenance area, but the way I'm reading the crappy Google translation, it does sound like all of it will be postponed.

That being said, you'd think they'd be sensitive to pulling stunts like this with a dying player base. I'm sure the decision to not include it was not made this morning, and if you go back and look at that post just last week about Voidwatch, were they trolling us? Or what was the point of that?

[Churchill]

The way I read it, it sounded like Aht Urghan/COP were being added as planned.

[Slycer]

Well, all they really say is the "final chapter." Is the "final chapter" everything being added, or just the Provenance stuff? It's not really clear, so I guess we'll find out in two hours. Unless, of course, the NA community team does their job and posts an official translation (which will probably be just as vague and useless as the Google translation).

[Slycer]

Never mind, I see it now. I'm fixing a translation, but Aht Urhgan and Tavnazia will definitely be in.

[Mahoro]

The way I read it, it sounded like Aht Urghan/COP were being added as planned.

Agreed. Pretty sure that JP phrase means Promathia/Aht Urhgan introduced as originally planned.

I think this is just delaying Provenance/Crystal dragon.

[Julian]

Lol. Oh, SE.

[Churchill]

Agreed. Pretty sure that JP phrase means Promathia/Aht Urhgan introduced as originally planned.

I think this is just delaying Provenance/Crystal dragon.

Don't you dare agree with me in public, I'm the bad boy

Read somewhere, but Provenance is the final chapter and as you all know is weird and has rifts but is its own zone, etc. Makes me think continuation of White Stratem only because it fits perfectly with

Spoiler: show

Caitsith going to the VW world, so now you follow him and do whatever you want

Hopefully your dat pulls were all placeholders, including gear stats and whatnot, so this new VW has something worthwhile for people to want to spam. In lieu of that, please some pouches.

[Slycer]

Real English translation *(edit: translation is not official, I just did this myself, but this is an official post from Ito on the JP forum)*

Voidwatch Final Chapter Delay
Hello, it's Director Ito.

I'm sorry to give you this notice so close to the version update.

We have been continuing with adjustments and were allowed to defer judgment regarding the final chapter of Voidwatch until this morning (the Promathia and Aht Urhgan routes will be introduced as originally planned).

The main reason for the postponement is to review the balance (lol) of the final chapter.

We need to take care of the following items in addition to isolating the weaknesses and loot. It takes a while to verify these adjustments:

* Add a cumulative decrease of enemy physical and magical attack power with weakness effects.

* Review weakness procs (exclude magic and abilities learned from merit points and further refine the procs from pets so that all jobs can be uniformly active in procing).

Since we also want to adjust the weaknesses in the existing voidwatch, we want to do this carefully.


I think in the final chapter battles will be fun and have a sense of accomplishment, and the treasure will be rewarding.

We want these feelings to not be limited to the last chapter of Voidwatch, but to be for all of Voidwatch and more fun content.

To that end, we ask for your patience for another few weeks. At the end of the balance adjustments, there will be a version update for just the Voidwatch final chapter (the schedule will be confirmed soon).

To everyone who has been waiting, I apologize again. I thank you humbly for your understanding.



I'm glad they're getting rid of merit spells. Stupid to force people to spread out merits to stuff they never wanted just to get more procs.

[Churchill]

"fun"

[Byrthnoth]

Well, they're changing the procs? That could shake things up in a trivial but significant way.

[Slycer]

"fun"

Dude, lol, I left it out because it doesn't translate well into English, but the last couple sentences are actually closer to something like "to all of you who have been waiting to have fun, I apologize again."

[Kaisha]

I wonder if that's the reason for the update notes coming out a day after the server maint.

[Slycer]

I wonder if that's the reason for the update notes coming out a day after the server maint.

I'm sure that was just a mistake because of the translation. Right now its 11pm on March 26 in Japan, so when the update starts it will be March 27 in Japan and they will get the notes on March 27, even though it will be March 26 for us. I'm sure the notes will come within the first 30 minutes of the version update maintenance as usual, they probably just forgot to change the day when they translated it.