2.1 Patch Notes

[Corrderio]

How difficult would you rate it? I'm hoping I can attempt it tonight and kind of want to know what to expect other than general stupidity from others.

[Lucavi]

CT with 23 randoms is so fucking annoying. People shouting and insulting each other even though it's everyone's first time. People dropping or going AFK after a boss. People locking others out from boss encounters. We reached the boss before last and after wiping, the alliance crumbled. So frustrating.

Yeeeaaaah.

[Yukari]

Well, we can't really say we didn't see it coming once they said that they'd only give 1 piece of loot per week.

[Azninvazion]

So items that get passed by the other 7 people just go poof when the timer expires?

[Yukari]

So items that get passed by the other 7 people just go poof when the timer expires?

I'm not sure anyone's actually tested that yet.

[Aelfinn]

I'm more curious to see what happens if no one needs/greeds/passes at all.


and yes i understand just how unlikely that will be.

[Akiyama]

Did the CT fates before passing out. Glad that shit's over.

[Taruranto]

So... treasure hunting...

[Eanae]

Anyone done a full party map yet? Got one sitting in my inventory ready to go. Curious what to expect.

[Chamaan]

They're pretty easy and fast. Get together with several people with maps and just pound them out in quick succession. I got 5 HQ Rose Gold nuggets, a few thousand gil, and 25 myths for like maybe 10 minutes of work. Not exactly dungeon speed runs but a fun distraction.

[Jamison]

Ment to post this morning but forgot...

Notes say you can have two more cross bars by holding L1+R1 and L2+R2. But what they implemented is actually a little different.

You get one new (half) bar by holding L2 then hitting R2, and the other (half) bar by holding R2 then L2. Also, it's a redirect to another existing bar from your 8 (and you can pick which in the settings).

[Spider-Dan]

That's awesome. Seriously.

The more I can stay away from page toggling, the better.

[Evane]

How difficult would you rate it? I'm hoping I can attempt it tonight and kind of want to know what to expect other than general stupidity from others.

It's not difficult if people stop treating it as a FATE.

Spoiler: show

The first boss is Bone Dragon. 1 party can handle him while the other 2 handle the adds. Upon the dragon's death, the skeleton adds will resurrect and run to the boss' corpse and explode dealing unavoidable 1500 damage. The idea is to tank them and kill them as far away from each other as possible. Also the adds if they are close when resurrected, they'll chain together and run faster so... kill them apart too. When they rise up, kill them before they reach their destination. The boss will resurrect 3 or 4 times I'm not really sure, but the adds will change and it'll gain new set of abilities. Nothing threatening.

Second boss is the split part. Each alliance takes its own path. There is a colored pad on the floor on each path that "lock/unlocks" the other party's boss. So the idea here is to split your party into 2 teams of 4, one team stays on the pad so the other party in the alliance can damage its boss while also dealing with the adds, while the other team damage the boss. If you fuck up, an Iron Giant pops and 9999'd everyone on all 3 paths.

The real second boss is Thanatos. He is immune to all attacks and only damaged when you gain a buff from the 3 magic pots in the area. Adds will pop and attack the magic pots so whoever doesn't have the buff that allows you to damage the boss, gets on add duty. That's about it.

Last boss I fought, but not the dungeon's final boss, were 3 Batraal type monsters positioned in a triangular formation, connected to a bomb. If you move them, the lines get deformed and bomb gets bigger until it explodes. Bomb adds also pop and head to the main bomb and does something to it and it gets bigger. At one point it exploded dealing 20k damage to all. The theory the team had was that all 3 must die at the same time so the bomb won't trigger as a final move. But we didn't manage to try it.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Last boss I fought, but not the dungeon's final boss, were 3 Batraal type monsters positioned in a triangular formation, connected to a bomb. If you move them, the lines get deformed and bomb gets bigger until it explodes. Bomb adds also pop and head to the main bomb and does something to it and it gets bigger. At one point it exploded dealing 20k damage to all. The theory the team had was that all 3 must die at the same time so the bomb won't trigger as a final move. But we didn't manage to try it.
[/SPOILER]

We never moved the demons. Just stood there and tanked them. Killed them within 30-60 seconds of each other then burned the boss.

[Alistaire]

Curious, does CT spiritbond ilvl 70 gear?

[Carth]

The new Stun mechanics is making people cry really hard on Ifrit HM, and it amuses me greatly.

[bluefan]

*Edit
Oh pfft never mind, there isn't one haha.

[Xerlic]

I'm upset that there aren't more Hildibrand quests.

[Therin]

How many groups have cleared the Extremes yet? Our FC just finished (I wasn't in on the runs, they started at server up last night and just finished).

http://www.congaming.com/home

[blowfin]

CT FATE repops seem like 45 minutes when they're working normally. Watch for the arriving hoard of people for an indication that the other one has just finished, note the time, then get to the other location within 45 minutes of the arrival of the hoard. Knowing the approximate time I actually got a fair bit of other crap done in between pops.

Also, fucking love that they fixed an issue with locked crossbars. Previously the hotbar would stay active when a menu was brought up, now they become unlocked and the menu dialogue gets the focus. Saves a lot of erroneous actions, I lost count of the amount of meds I've burnt before this was fixed.

Also, got nearly 25K Exp as the roulette bonus running a Guildhest on WAR (39). Pretty good for 5 minutes of action, and certainly refreshing to redo guildhests I've probably only ever played once. Don't think I was even the desired class for that one.

DF'd the High Level dungeon roulette and ended up with a painfully tedious AK group. Pretty frustrating seeing as everything in there seems a lot squishier now, but 70 myth for a sub 30 minute run still isn't bad.