Patch 1.18a Notes

[Hyan]

You're right, nothing being done for 2 months after launch when the game was that abysmal isn't a negative. And item search was implemented two weeks after the regime change was announced.

Gtfo.

Yet nothing worthwhile being done for fucking eight months isn't a negative? It's all happy happy joy joy from January to this day. fucking lol.

Lol, item search was made by Tanaka's team you fool. It had nothing to do with Yoshida. He only released what others had already finished, nothing more.

[Spira]

Item search still sucks. Hell. market wards still suck.

but I've been playing it a little these days.. its not so bad. tolerable but the relics of bad design still exist (badly scripted quests hello! i can kill the gladiator, but i cant.)

[Draylo]

Was that one of the mission quests where you go into the arena and fight that guy that never dies? I did that and thought it was a glitch lol

[Hyan]

Item search still sucks. Hell. market wards still suck.

Sure is better than what it was pre-search.

But hey, new team, new duties.

[Spira]

Was that one of the mission quests where you go into the arena and fight that guy that never dies? I did that and thought it was a glitch lol

apparently its scripted that you can only be beaten.. problem is the guy is so easy. i held him for 5 minutes until i was 'defeated' by a time over and next thing you know, he's glitching the CS cos he's still attacking me (for 0 dmg) in the background whilst the CS runs.

[Hyan]

I actually beat that guy. He died but in the cs I 'lost' ;o.

[Karinastar]

There's another fight like the gladiator one in the R36 Marauder quest. The npc you fight is a complete joke, but when you get his HP to 0 he just doesn't die. After 5 mins the game will inform you in a text box that you were defeated, the screen fades out and it fades in to show your char knocked out on the ground. Just really awkwardly done... for that kind of stuff they should just have the mob hit you to 1 HP after a couple of minutes ala Beatrix in FF9 and end the battle.

[Alkar]

Actually FFXI was changed when Tanaka started messing with XIV. He sure was listening during those months of beta and alpha tests huh?

[Amastacia]

My wife could take some cock-gobbling lessons from Hyan.

Tanaka leaving is the best thing that has happened to XIV since launch.

Every game design choice he made for this game had me WTF'ing, and I doubt any significant gameplay improvements would have been made without a shakeup. He obviously had his plan, and never bothered to figure out it wasn't going to make for a competitive game considering what else was either in the market or forthcoming.

The pace of changes better pick up significantly, now that valid excuses are running very thin, but I can't believe anyone seriously thinks the game is in a worse state now than if Tanaka were still in charge.

[Jamison]

The changes being made now, even if slow, are things that should have been dealt with over a year ago while the game was still in *beta*. It wasn't as if people weren't complaining about the problems, the problem was Tanaka was completely tone deaf and unwilling to make changes. I die a little inside to think how much better FFXIV would be if Yoshi-P were in charge from the start.

[Lucavi]

Nig you dont even know what youre talking about anymore. Apologies if that implies that you ever did.

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/9...ivprogress.jpg

It's currently somewhere between a crappy beta and an average launch title, which is lightyears ahead of where Tanaka was trending.

I think that graph is slightly too high (I'd still have it in beta status), but yeah, we're getting there, and its definitely going up at a solid clip.

Hyan, you are an expert at trolling. I only hope the mods don't catch on.

[Kaylia]

When they release patches has absolutely nothing to do with how long it takes to make the changes... all of these things just missed out on being in the previous patch and it's not great practice to release patches in quick succession without seeing how each one affects game balance first. 90% of whatever development capacity they have will have been working on 1.19 not this stuff.

That's bullshit.

I agree there no rules that dictate exactly how much content the player is going to get per day waiting, but you can still consider the average content one should get per update cycle, and so far, it's been underwhelming in 1.17, 1.18, and 1.18a. At some point, they will have to show us wtf they are doing with their time, and prove us that this game is going to be fun by 2014.

[Greedouw]

Wish they'd up the anima recharge rate until Chocobos/airships are released =\

[Aratharn]

Wish they'd up the anima recharge rate until Chocobos/airships are released =\

The new "Home Point" changes combined with the 0 anima return should help

[Spider-Dan]

Any wagers as to the Feint nerf?

I think the multiplier before was 1.75x LNC/1.25x other? I wouldn't be surprised to see it go to 2.5x LNC/1.0x other.

[Toth]

Well, they really fixed the lvl 20 leves...alot.

I did two quick ones in Tranquil as 25 THM, the imps ones. 2.4k SP on level 4 for each and I finished within 10 mins both times. Add in about 200 SP a kill on the imps and fireflies. Then I solo'd the Behest there and got 2.6k plus 100 SP per mob (there were 9 total). Much better SE. Much better.

[Niiro]

Once hidden, the log will reappear at the following times:

An open chat prompt command is input (Space bar, slash (/) key, Ctrl+S, etc.)
Configuration » Chat Log appears in the active log tab. (This does not apply when the active tab is the battle tab.)
* The log will be hidden after being inactive for a period of 10 seconds.

Am I missing something or is there no way to make the logs auto-hide as described in the notes.

[ascalon]

Well, they really fixed the lvl 20 leves...alot.

I did two quick ones in Tranquil as 25 THM, the imps ones. 2.4k SP on level 4 for each and I finished within 10 mins both times. Add in about 200 SP a kill on the imps and fireflies. Then I solo'd the Behest there and got 2.6k plus 100 SP per mob (there were 9 total). Much better SE. Much better.

I concur with this. Did 3 leves and managed a much better rate. Now if only those final 3 common cactuars didn't pop as a group and spam Thousand Needles me to death xD

[Niiro]

I'm getting significantly more shield skill than sword skill from leve/behest completions, hardly a complaint but I'm just confused really.

[Grey Jorildyn]

I keep getting "Update files corrupted. Run disk check" grr. Guess I gotta download manually huh?