World Maintenance Feb 19th

[Deadgye]

Players can now zoom out and achieve an overhead view when locked on to large targets.

This is huge to me, personally. Locking on makes moving to evade things situationally much easier, but I had to stop using it quite a long time ago because the way it locked your camera was horrible.

[Elcura]

Locking on makes dodging easier? First I've ever heard that. I thought it only made AA activation a sure thing.

[MrSamuels]

No clue how Quick Synthesis is supposed to be better, 5/5 NQ toast when my stats are pretty much capped.

[Classikmage]

Anyone else getting a weird message whenever they change job? Every time I change job, I get the message: "JOB(Lv. XX)" equipped, but materia could not be restored.

BRD has nothing out of order, my under-50 jobs had no melds to begin with, my DoH accessories only show 4/5 of the melds they used to have, but my Craftsmanship and CP seem unchanged in the status menu, and the same with DoL jobs. It's really weird. I get the message changing to any job.

[Classikmage]

No clue how Quick Synthesis is supposed to be better, 5/5 NQ toast when my stats are pretty much capped.

I bet it's more the random chance at breaking and item before, I shied away from it just b/c of that. Since I knew I could make materials them with 100% accuracy just by spamming Progress manually. Probably won't break anymore if you have enough Craftsmanship to 1-shot the materials.

[Scythiroth]

Anyone else getting a weird message whenever they change job? Every time I change job, I get the message: "JOB(Lv. XX)" equipped, but materia could not be restored.

BRD has nothing out of order, my under-50 jobs had no melds to begin with, my DoH accessories only show 4/5 of the melds they used to have, but my Craftsmanship and CP seem unchanged in the status menu, and the same with DoL jobs. It's really weird. I get the message changing to any job.

I got this message this morning when I changed jobs. I updated my gear after changing and then.....forgot to check if that fixed that message lol. Was kind of in a hurry to leave for work.

[Seravi Edalborez]

The gearsets from pre thisupdate didn't check materia, so it registers any item you had with materia as wanting to seek one that doesn't have materia. So it's just putting on any gear with the same name but different materia. Just need to refresh it to have it save anything you're wearing with materia on it. It's the same kind of "error" as wearing different colored gear.

Materia.

[Raldo]

Anyone else getting a weird message whenever they change job? Every time I change job, I get the message: "JOB(Lv. XX)" equipped, but materia could not be restored.

BRD has nothing out of order, my under-50 jobs had no melds to begin with, my DoH accessories only show 4/5 of the melds they used to have, but my Craftsmanship and CP seem unchanged in the status menu, and the same with DoL jobs. It's really weird. I get the message changing to any job.

Haven't logged in since patch, but I'm going to make a complete guess here.

All of your pre 2.16 gearsets didn't include the materia data, so based on that, I think it's safe to assume that if you are wearing any equipment that DOES have materia on it (judging by your lodestone link, your wrists/neck are the culprit here), your gearset won't contain that data until you "reassign gearset".

"Materia could not be restored" is a terrible translation, but it just means it couldn't find a piece of gear with the same materia on it (and all your pre-2.16 gearsets are going to have "no materia" for all gear).

Dang, beaten.

[Kaslo]

Locking on makes dodging easier? First I've ever heard that. I thought it only made AA activation a sure thing.

The only thing I could see locking on be good for is to make sure you don't walk too far forward on Titan EX to get knocked forward instead of back (damn you Mr. Happy for saying to "really get up in there")

[Classikmage]

The gearsets from pre thisupdate didn't check materia, so it registers any item you had with materia as wanting to seek one that doesn't have materia. So it's just putting on any gear with the same name but different materia. Just need to refresh it to have it save anything you're wearing with materia on it. It's the same kind of "error" as wearing different colored gear.

Materia.

That makes sense for BRD, but what about DoH/DoL where the actual equipment only shows 4/5 of the materia they had before on-screen?

[Raldo]

That makes sense for BRD, but what about DoH/DoL where the actual equipment only shows 4/5 of the materia they had before on-screen?

Are you trying to say that you had materia disappear from your gear...?

[Classikmage]

Disregard these posts, I need to stay off the weed....

[Deadgye]

Locking on makes dodging easier? First I've ever heard that. I thought it only made AA activation a sure thing.

The only thing I could see locking on be good for is to make sure you don't walk too far forward on Titan EX to get knocked forward instead of back (damn you Mr. Happy for saying to "really get up in there")

It's situational, like I said. You move out of conal aoes faster (to match you need to adjust your camera to stay parallel to the arc while moving). And having a different paths of movement available gives you more options. The biggest thing is of course that you can move in 'complex' paths with only one finger making continuing attacks while moving much easier. Uninterrupted auto attacks while moving is also a nice plus, not sure how much that actually adds up to though.

One of the reasons I didn't take monk up, besides it requiring constant effort, is that using lock-on to easily move between flank/back or evade while attacking completely ruined my ability to see my surroundings.

[Alkar]

I'm reading that Twintania was nerfed with this patch.... anyone able to confirm?

[Gokulo]

People seem to be talking about this in Twintania thread.

[Elcura]

There is nothing that you said that makes me think locking on is better than not. Conals are easy to dodge anyway, making it easier is like trying to make sugar sweeter. Different paths of movement, complex paths while attacking? The fuck are you talking about? If you're locking on for some reason other than paranoia about AA (which is also stupid) I guess you doing it wrong. I see nothing that lock-on adds beneficially other than AA consistency.

And what job doesn't require constant effort? I didn't realise there were jobs where not doing stuff was fine.

is that using lock-on to easily move between flank/back or evade while attacking completely ruined my ability to see my surroundings.

Definitely doing it wrong. Turn auto-face on and be done with it.

[The Stig]

Do you know how this game works?

I do but, I'm aware it doesn't reset with maint usually, but the obscene amount of people that are shouting/PFing to get it done before maint boggled me

[Deadgye]

There is nothing that you said that makes me think locking on is better than not. Conals are easy to dodge anyway, making it easier is like trying to make sugar sweeter. Different paths of movement, complex paths while attacking? The fuck are you talking about? If you're locking on for some reason other than paranoia about AA (which is also stupid) I guess you doing it wrong. I see nothing that lock-on adds beneficially other than AA consistency.

Color me surprised that you don't see the benefits of options, lol. If you can't see how only having to hold 'a' to dodge an attack is easier than holding 'a', holding a mouse button, and moving the mouse, there's not much point in trying to explain the intricacies of situational movement options.

And what job doesn't require constant effort? I didn't realise there were jobs where not doing stuff was fine.

Monk takes more effort to play well than, say, bard. Especially on easier shit; the loss in effectiveness of playing a lazy monk is much more prominent than the loss in effectiveness of playing a lazy bard.

Definitely doing it wrong. Turn auto-face on and be done with it.

Turn on auto-face to... do what exactly? You're always facing the target while locked on.

[OWS_Tonx]

It's just preference. I personally don't care to play locked on even if I can now zoom my camera. And with Auto face on I'm guranteeing my auto attacks are hitting because everytime I que an action I'm facing the right direction

[Mabubeezareel]

Lock-on off + legacy movement + gamepad + camera zoomed out 100% = I see/dodge all the AOEs.