New Grand Company Gear (04/23/2012)

[Hellfury]

New craftable stuff that I can see:

(a lot of crafted parts, that are crafted from other parts that I can't tell where come from)
Avengers ( pug weapon, made by bsmith, 50 to use)
Mailbreaker ( sword, Gladiator, made by bsmith, 50 to use)
Rampager (g.axe, bsmith, 50 to use)
Obelisk (lnc weapon, bsmith 50 to use)
Heavy Darksteel armor (armorcrafting, (well, d'oh), different colors with dyes, looks a little like a fancied up cobalt set, level 49 to wear)
Is gilded rosewood fishing rod new?
Rose Gold earrings (goldsmith, all jobs, req. to wear 49))
Astrolabe looks like a neat two-handed thm arm, gsmith, 50 to use

Alchemy seems to have gotten various rations (blessed, fortified, musked, spiked), which is shared with cul (?)

There doesn't seem to be any recipes for some of the stuff they added yet (such as the flawless ** required for most of the new gear, so either it's not crafted, or it's gotten from some other source)
(I can't really tell what's new in lw/alc/cloth, and I only looked at the 50+ recipes, some like the new ingots/nuggets etc. are other places.)

oh look, I have 50 mining, 50 bsmith, 50 arm, and 48 wood, this is not making me sad for some reason. :D

Random unfounded speculation: coerthas and treespeak share most their mining mats, and coerthas share logging with some other location(s) too that I can't remember off the top of my head. time for changing stuff around a little?
(Personally I wish they'd open Mor Dhona to mining, it would be a nightmare, I would hate it and slam my head into the desk, but unless they are horribad with mob positioning, it'd be a change of pace)

more shameless speculation: on the lodestone, you can make avenger grips (and same for the rest of them), which don't seem to do anything, could be translation issue, or maybe you need to HQ grips to make flawless?

[Nama]

ugh Class only stuff. Rather they pick classes or jobs and just go in a direction not bounce back and forth. Already got enough gear as it is without having to carry gear for class and for its job. Not that theres a many reasons to be a class over a job atm maybe the class only gear good enough to justify it.

[Jamison]

Sweet, I'll finally have a use for that Darksteel ore that's been sitting on my retainer since just after launch...

The gilded rosewood fishing rod is in the game now, no clue when it was added.

[Hellfury]

official thread now:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/43599

[solracht]

a 50-hour non-combat phase where Disciples of the Hand and Land can enhance hamlet readiness for battle, and a 25-hour combat phase where Disciples of War and Magic can join the local militia and fight beastmen directly, while Disciples of the Hand and Land can aid in the effort in other ways.

Oh dear god. If all three hamlets are on the same timers like Behests, this is the biggest fail ever.

Wait, these are instanced? There goes my hope for campaign.

If the 50-hour preparation period is over and the call-to-arms has been sounded, form a party of 8 members and speak with the militia captain to enter the instanced area. Once the instance has been entered, jobs and classes will be locked and players will not be allowed to change their weapons or soul crystals.

Apparently there goes my hope for playing DRG somewhere too.

[Hellfury]

on the bright side, you can recover anima from trading in stuff and

"Characters now perform synthesis motions more quickly, and the waiting time between command inputs has been shortened."

[Alkar]

I was hoping to exp some classes in the hamlets but looks like it's simply there for gil or seals, whatever this payment is.

[Kurokikaze]

Looks like dLVL will have less of an effect on Block Rate than before.

[Elcura]

Looks like dLVL will have less of an effect on Block Rate than before.

Only time will tell if this change is enough to get PLD back in there.

The cancel action could potentially help deal with the animation lock from WS... but who knows.

[Hellfury]

I have to admit, 8 man instanced hamlet. I is disappoint.

[Charismatic]

I have to admit, 8 man instanced hamlet. I is disappoint.

Yeah, not what I had in mind. So lame.

[Tomino]

From what I get, once the 25hr "battle mode" activates, people simply form a party of 8 and then enter their own instanced version of the battlefield?
Then, rinse and repeat for as long as they like?

I'm hoping that *maybe* the battle is instanced, but not just for your party. Separated from the rest of the world, but still able to gather multiple parties.
Otherwise, this may as well be the lamest "large scale content" ever.

[Horus]

From what I get, once the 25hr "battle mode" activates, people simply form a party of 8 and then enter their own instanced version of the battlefield?
Then, rinse and repeat for as long as they like?

I'm hoping that *maybe* the battle is instanced, but not just for your party. Separated from the rest of the world, but still able to gather multiple parties.
Otherwise, this may as well be the lamest "large scale content" ever.

Yep VERY VERY VERY VERY LAME!

[Xanthe]

I'm hoping that *maybe* the battle is instanced, but not just for your party. Separated from the rest of the world, but still able to gather multiple parties.
Otherwise, this may as well be the lamest "large scale content" ever.

It sounds like 8-member instances contributing to the overall effort during the 25 hour battle. Remember than FFXIV has a pretty big limitation on the number of characters/mobs that can be displayed concurrently, so this is probably their solution to get around it.

[Raldo]

Wait, so... as a DoL I can help out in the battle phase... but I'm class-locked, so that's all I can do. Uh, those debuff potions better be worth it. Someday I'm going to snap and sever some heads with my scythe.

[Rocl]

Fishing is SCREWED AGAIN aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

[Kurokikaze]

EDIT: Please continue conversation about the patch in it's own thread.

[Corrderio]

EDIT: Nvm