Changes Planned for Patch 1.19 (9/28/2011)

**miokomioko** · 2011-09-28 21:30

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...233#post359233

• New Recipes
• http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...pdated Recipes
• Abolished Recipes
Copper Ingot (blacksmith)
Copper Ingot (armorer)

• Items not Used in New Recipes
• Updated NPC Vendor Merchandise
• Items no Longer Available for Purchase from NPCs
• Updated NPC Vendor Selling Prices
• Updated NPC Vendor Buying Prices
• Items no Longer Dropped by Enemies
• Changes to Items Available Through Gathering
• Items no Longer Available Through Gathering
• Changes to Existing Item Names
• Changes to Item Categories

Further Insight into Recipe Revision & Abolishment

Over the past year, we have conducted several rounds of balance adjustments to intermediary part recipes, focusing on the number of materials required to create an item in relation to the number of items yielded by its recipe. For most items, this meant increasing a recipe’s yield to accommodate the large number of parts required in the crafting of weapons and gear. New recipes introduced in 1.19, however, will no longer require as many materials, meaning that, if left untouched, current intermediary part recipes will yield more items than crafters need. This could lead to an influx of those items in the market, and ultimately end up disrupting the balance of the in-game economy. To counter this, we have gone back to those intermediary part recipes and readjusted both the amount of materials required, as well as the number of items yielded with each successful synthesis.

Copper ingots are not part of any new blacksmithing and armoring recipes, rendering the item obsolete. To ensure that existing materials are not wasted on a no-longer necessary item, potentially affecting the in-game economy in an adverse manner, we have decided to remove the two recipes for copper ingots altogether.

There are shitloads of massive tables and lists on the link provided... not realistic to paste them all here as they are rather extensive.

Looks like you can no longer NPC-purchase weathered gear and a lot of random obsolete materials and parts.
NPC-sell values were just about halved across the board.
Colored dyes are now "all-purpose" instead of material-specific.
Fishing items were not altered, for some reason.
A vast majority of the items no longer dropped/gathered are dyes and now-obsolete repair ingredients.

There are quite a few new items made from cobalt, electrum, mythril, tortoiseshell, raptorskin, boarskin, peisteskin, felt, wool, etc. listed under the new recipes, including new "ranger," "rainmaker," "artisan," "hunter's," and other peculiarly-named items. The elemental boarskin ringbands make me most curious.

edit: A mod might want to change the thread title to a more accurate "Item and Recipe Revamps" or something as it may conflict with the incoming actual patch notes.

**Niiro** · 2011-09-28 21:43

Holy shit @ the number of items going in the can.

Spoiler: show

Wow

**Elcura** · 2011-09-28 21:44

I feel sorry for whatever sorry saps had this job lol

**Cichy** · 2011-09-28 22:34

Glad I quit crafting early on, surprised they got rid of darksteel ore, they probably bring it back later. We will definitely see a big difference now with inventory space too.
Already seen few new recipes but thought we will see more. There's a blue steel cuirass but was hoping for a white one.

**Cooleko** · 2011-09-28 22:41

hmm. guess my stockpiles of nuggets/ores are going to need to be npc'ed... Or just try and craft them all before update. I couldnt even begin to think how long it is going to take to strip my retainers of every gathered mat that is being removed. I have one retainer just plum full of dye mats i was saving for a rainy day that I wanted to use for pushing alchemy up, the other full of ores/nuggets/ingots for arm,bs,gs

**Niiro** · 2011-09-28 22:48

The recipes those items are used in will still exist, there just won't be any more of those items from patch day on.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here.

**Cooleko** · 2011-09-28 22:52

if that is correct, then I will be relieved, wont have to log on to take care of it

**Cichy** · 2011-09-28 22:57

Originally Posted by Niiro

The recipes those items are used in will still exist, there just won't be any more of those items from patch day on.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here.

That is correct and eventually the recipes will be removed on a later date

**Corrderio** · 2011-09-28 22:58

Holy shit Champion's Lance is actually bearable to try for now. Though I'll have to wait and see if the Colbalt Halberd or the Ifrit one outdo my +1

**Datonare** · 2011-09-28 23:05

Time to convert all your logs into lumber (the ones that are sticking around, anyway)

**Corrderio** · 2011-09-28 23:08

Just noticed Yew Lumber isn't used anymore. Wonder what that means for masks...

**Datonare** · 2011-09-28 23:20

Originally Posted by Corrderio

Just noticed Yew Lumber isn't used anymore. Wonder what that means for masks...

Good point... maybe it's being removed/changed or made straight from the log

**Wulfgang** · 2011-09-29 00:20

Welcome the changes; was tired of looking at a synth that I could easily craft based on level and saying nah just b/c it required 10 obscure ingredients.

**Hyan** · 2011-09-29 00:24

"Patch notes will be 3-5 times as long as 1.18 this time!"

Consisting of all the recipe changes eh? ;p

**Vaspinne** · 2011-09-29 00:30

Well, if the patch looked thin to anyone before, it certainly shouldn't now.

**Grey Jorildyn** · 2011-09-29 00:39

Anyone who thought this patch was gonna be thin in the first place was trolling anyway.

This is a massive changs that will be good in the longrun. Time to clear retainers like everyone else...

**Niiro** · 2011-09-29 00:50

Could go through the mountains of misc stuff I have on my retainers and figure out what I can craft into junk before I NPC it all, but honestly it's just so much I don't think it's worth the effort.

Also I wonder if the NPC sell price of stuff will decrease with the buying price drops, if so might wanna NPC that junk before patch day.

**miokomioko** · 2011-09-29 00:56

I'm just taking this as a point to start fresh. NPC most of my random shit. The gear, I'm probably going to try to break it all down into Materia since I'm tired of trying to sell it.

**Zisa** · 2011-09-29 01:17

Looking at all those nerfed recipes for base materials (lumber, yarn, leather, etc.). Craft grinding looks like it took a huge hit

**Croy** · 2011-09-29 01:17

Kinda glad I waited to convert all my iron and silver ore now, but really not happy to see my hoarding of gold sand isn't very useful

. Oh well old recipes are still going to stick around till the next patch, might as well keep them and just do some leveling off them. Speaking of leveling... all the old reliable leveling methods for each class got shaken up quite a bit, lots more raw ingredients that only come from gatherers, can't make a ton of items from raw material to use in grinding out levels, at least not once some of the old recipes disappear.

Also... wtf are they planning to do with alchemy? The 'changes' they made basically eliminated a great use for alchemy as the crystal/shard converter (They are getting rid of Moraines from gathering/mob drops), dyes won't be synthed and drop from gathering and the changes to the glues are pure wtf. Most of the recipes didn't even change and they only give less stuff for each synth now. All this coupled with them not having any materia related stuff (Alchemy and Culinary were confirmed to not dabble in materia stuff not too long ago) makes me wonder just what direction they want to take that craft in.

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