Patch 2.4 Notes (Preliminary) (10/24/2014)

[Spider-Dan]

Hawk's Eye: cross class usable, not useful to any class other than BRD

-> introduce NIN: only job that would actually benefit from Hawk's Eye, can't use it because of retarded cross-class restrictions

a feature, not a bug

Besides, we can't have melee DPS using Quelling, or something.

[Raldo]

lol, you know the reason is raging strikes

[Katlan]

9k seals for the mitho mats. are you fucking kidding me

[Spider-Dan]

<--- been buying myth mats for months

Fool me once...

[Katlan]

I have also, but still. thats beyond retarded. if they expect 45 per upgrade then they are smoking some serious crack

[Niiro]

Whats all this fuss about skill speed?

I feel like I'm missing something here.

[Shenrien]

Kinda upset at an absence of Odin battlefield not showing up in the patch. I know the stupid mount is being sold but it would have been fun to at least do.

[Alkimi]

Well if you count the auto-crit of Life Surge, Full Thrust is technically a 1 min 495 potency. Add in that B4B is stronger by a huge margin on DRG as opposed to what it will be on NIN and I would say you'll probably hit around the same as Life Surge Full Thrust on average.

And to address issues with Hide, you get a trait that reduces the movement penalty while in stealth and another trait that is a straight up buff to movement speed. I wouldn't be surprised to you moving at 80% movement speed in stealth after all things considered which isn't that big of a deal for an initial approach on a boss.

We still don't know if Ninjutsu will be considered special damage or slashing type so auto-crit Raiton might not even benefit from the 10% slashing debuff which is a pretty substantial boost.

Also don't know if daggers will be the same weapon damage as other weapons, they might be lower like BRDs is.

[Null]

Enough Ninja talk. Spineshatter Dive/Dragonfire Dive, and animation locks are getting reduced further on jumps. EXCITE.


QQ

I was reading through the notes and looking at ninja stuff. I was getting so excited. But when I read the DRG stuff I about had a heart attack. More than I could've asked for.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Call me entitled but I think less animation lock on Jump is bullshit when I still get interrupted sometimes with Aetherial Manipulation because herp derp travel times.

#BLMproblems

[Ratatapa]

Kinda upset at an absence of Odin battlefield not showing up in the patch. I know the stupid mount is being sold but it would have been fun to at least do.

Let people buy it from the cash shop for world first, and the fight will appear at 2.5 with free mount

[Selamis]

Kinda upset at an absence of Odin battlefield not showing up in the patch. I know the stupid mount is being sold but it would have been fun to at least do.

What was up with that anyway, I didn't watch or attend the fan fest, and I haven't watched a Live Letter in some time, was it just a gimmick they made for the fest or is this something that is supposed to be added to the game, and he's being removed from FATES?

[miokomioko]

What was up with that anyway, I didn't watch or attend the fan fest, and I haven't watched a Live Letter in some time, was it just a gimmick they made for the fest or is this something that is supposed to be added to the game, and he's being removed from FATES?

I don't think there has been any official word on whether or not Odin was going to be officially implemented as a battle/trial. Based on how simplistic the whole thing was, I could easily see it just being a FanFest event unless they heavily rework it and add quite a bit of complexity for an "Extreme" version. I mean, there were n new gimmicks/mechanics to the fight at all, like every major fight they add has. They essentially recycled Ifrit's nails as a miniature/repeating attack and the area felt like just a random, sectioned-off, dark corner of Urth's Gift. However, getting Shin-Zetsuken'd did look uniquely cool, and it was amusing to see 8 monitors go dark, hearing that many people groan simultaneously, followed by a *shink!*

[Deadgye]

Hawks Eye on is pro on BLM when you don't meet acc cap.

Also, is nobody else annoyed that sneak attack is from the front instead of the back?

[Zirael]

Hawks Eye on is pro on BLM when you don't meet acc cap.

Also, is nobody else annoyed that sneak attack is from the front instead of the back?

I'm annoyed this thing is called NIN not THF.

[Lucavi]

Call me entitled but I think less animation lock on Jump is bullshit when I still get interrupted sometimes with Aetherial Manipulation because herp derp travel times.

#BLMproblems

When your DPS drops substantially, we'll talk, and I mean that. Animation lock as a whole is bullshit, but Drgs really suffered for it.

[Deadgye]

I'm annoyed this thing is called NIN not THF.

It's all fucked up. If they'd fix the problem with macros not buffering then I'd make one to rename sneak attack to trick attack and trick attack to sneak attack. I think I'm going to just call the job buddhist assassin.

[Rocl]

Ninja is cooler than Thief, suck it nerds.

[Deadgye]

Can't even directly kill yourself with an ability, doesn't deserve to be called a ninja.

[Shenrien]

Thief was always shit tier, be glad you've got this to make up for it.