Patch 1.17a Notes (04/25/2011)

[Kurokikaze]

Maybe I'm being woooshed... but the board is at the adventurers guild~ I'm betting my hat we are only getting 3 tasks per day.

Going with the above. 19 just sounds like its too good to be true.

But as someone mentioned... They specifically mentioned Adventurer's Guild as the location to obtain and Eorzea's Guilds as the people who assign these tasks.

[Grey Jorildyn]

The game itself actually has a decent amount of stuff to do but it all shares the same things in common:

It's all rank restricted/bases
It's severely time limited.

We all knew the patch was gonna be small but we did get some content out of it so let's not fly off the handle. I consider these new guild tasks FFXIV's version of daily quests. Break it down and there's a fair bit to do at least...

• Dailies every 24h
• sidequests for the low/mid-levels
• Leves every 36h, which break down into three primary tasks:
  
  • leves for SP
  • leves for marks
  • faction leves for end game gear
• Notorious Monsters
  
  • mid-level
  • high-level / "end game"
• Crafting

Throw in dungeons that cover all the level ranges or fill in grinding gaps, twek the UI a bit more, and we've got a real MMO here methinks.

[Hyan]

Throw in dungeons that cover all the level ranges or fill in grinding gaps, twek the UI a bit more, and we've got a real MMO here methinks.

Woah now now let's not get ahead of ourselves!

I hope in the end the "dailies" end up being like XII's mark hunts, especially if we're talking about 3 per day and not 19 .

Somebody needs to datamine wtf they did :/

[fussel]

FFXIV has a lot in common with religion. It's playerbase is filled with hope and is waiting patiently to be saved, but it's not going to happen.

Perfect troll post. 10/10.

I almost felt offended by being called religious while watching a game's status that's in Open Beta for half a year maybe twice in a month.

Also, s/FFXIV/US politics/

edit: btw, 11 days since the last patch, that's not a long time...

[Kurokikaze]

The game itself actually has a decent amount of stuff to do but it all shares the same things in common:

It's all rank restricted/bases
It's severely time limited.

We all knew the patch was gonna be small but we did get some content out of it so let's not fly off the handle. I consider these new guild tasks FFXIV's version of daily quests. Break it down and there's a fair bit to do at least...

• Dailies every 24h
• sidequests for the low/mid-levels
• Leves every 36h, which break down into three primary tasks:
  
  • leves for SP
  • leves for marks
  • faction leves for end game gear
• Notorious Monsters
  
  • mid-level
  • high-level / "end game"
• Crafting

Throw in dungeons that cover all the level ranges or fill in grinding gaps, twek the UI a bit more, and we've got a real MMO here methinks.

I agree. For anyone that started on release and stopped playing shortly after they'll have lots to do on their grind going forward. Still not much for us at the top till next month.

Still say they should add EXP/SP rewards to these sidequests to supplement the grind.

Edit: Hyan, that avatar is creepy. lol

[Cichy]

If this is larger than 1.17 did they just ninja in a decent content update?

[Hyan]

Perfect troll post. 10/10.

Come on, let me be his only victim.

Edit: Hyan, that avatar is creepy. lol

If this is larger than 1.17 did they just ninja in a decent content update?

Orrrr maybe they found a color bug in every new NM and they had to be redownloaded... That's my guess.

[Kurokikaze]

Most likely shit that will be activated next month to make that patch smaller?

[Celeras]

More sidequests, and a new type of SP-giving daily in each city? Looks good, dunno what people were thinking it was gonna be. Seems to me that this IS pretty much 30%, considering the first patch was 20nms and a few quests.

[Raineer]

Perfect troll post. 10/10.

I almost felt offended by being called religious while watching a game's status that's in Open Beta for half a year maybe twice in a month.

Also, s/FFXIV/US politics/

edit: btw, 11 days since the last patch, that's not a long time...

Jesus is an open beta.

s/US politics/Your mom/

This post was 30% more useful than the patch!

[Sirenia]

And I expected the game to actually be good in one patch!

[Hyan]

I can see those 3D effects being quite hilarious.

You have formed a party of 4 people *L I G H T P A R T Y I N I T I A T E D* *achievement unlocked*

Like a boss.

Now all we need is UT announcer voice implemented.

4 people party? *RAMPAGE*

6 people? *DOMINATING*

7? *UNSTOPPABLE*

8? *GODLIKE*

Kill 5 opponents in <10 seconds? *M-M-M-MONSTER KILL*

[Toth]

While the patch looks nice, I'm looking forward to the next Letter from Yoshi.

[Liminality]

I can see those 3D effects being quite hilarious.

You have formed a party of 4 people *L I G H T P A R T Y I N I T I A T E D* *achievement unlocked*

Like a boss.

"Log into FFXIV... ACHIEVEMENT!!!"

[Cichy]

I bet new sidequests will just be quests for the other egg hats

[Black]

hm....download so slow

[Vuitton]

[dev1055] Guild tasks have been added.
By examining the new task boards found within any Adventurers' Guild, players may view and undertake the tasks of Eorzea's guilds. Obtaining and delivering the requested items will yield both rewards and skill points (awarded to the active class at time of completion).
* Players may complete a maximum of one task per guild per day (Earth time, resetting daily at 6:00 p.m. PDT/1:00 a.m. GMT).

Let's break this down because the way it is worded is misleading:

-Guild tasks: once a day, per guild, per day
-Initiate tasks: task board
-Location: Adventure Guild (same place as leves)
-Employers for the tasks: Eorzea's guilds (DoW/DoM/DoL/DoH)
-Task goals: obtain/deliver items
-Task rewards: skill points & "rewards" for active class at completion

Okay, so the first thing interesting I see is that you can do one quest per guild per day. This is ambiguous as they refer to the guilds as "Eorzea's Guilds", which could be up to 19 class guilds, or just 3 for each city's adventurer's guild. However, they already referred to Adventurers' Guild by name, so why wouldn't they use it twice if that is what they meant? Using a 2nd name for the same thing doesn't make sense.

Then let's look at the size of the patch. It is huge! Bigger than the first. Why would it be so big for only 3 guilds worth of quests? Conclusion: we can do a guild task for each class guild once a day.

At least, this is my analysis of the current info.

[sruon]

Patch file (My Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch)

A mob WS anim changed, one or two equips anim, a cutscene, bunch of dats/widget files/UI base files

Not really sure what was THAT huge, all I'm seeing is 20kb files <.<

[XalienLevi]

Well looks like there's enough shit to do now to keep people busy everyday. Now its up to the player base to actually enjoy it.

[Black]

Patch file (My Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch)

A mob WS anim changed, one or two equips anim, a cutscene, bunch of dats/widget files/UI base files

Not really sure what was THAT huge, all I'm seeing is 20kb files <.<

thanks!