Patch 6.1: Newfound Adventure (April 12th, 2022)

[Kaslo]

Exp System, 2000 exp to level up. 700 from loss, 900 for win.

[Anoat]

You can brute force your way up by gaining xp and you get rewards at certain thresholds, can be done unranked or ranked. If you play ranked you can also raise your tier rank for end of season rewards…but be warned you can level down in tiers if you lose a few successive matches. The duty finder will only match you to people in a similar tier range for balance. But right now pretty much everyone is in the early levels since it just started.

[Drai]

I've been playing DNC in PVP, and I can say I've personally ended matches with my LB by charming all 5 of the enemy team and letting my crew just roll over them lol, also Starfall dance, and Fan Dance with a Sabre Dance is usually pretty good at chunking down any single target, usually a healer or a ranged DPS, or the NIN who thinks they're slick and tries to come around behind us and gets ganked >.>

[Gokulo]

The matching is pretty weird though, it seems it just aims to achieve a certain score and it does that e.g. by putting 1 silver with 4 non ranked people, which isn't great

[Lokus]

Because I was bored, I did some data gathering on the new Ishgard housing. On my server, there are currently 2122 bids across all the personal housing wards. Meanwhile there are a couple FC wards with 10-15 bids total across all the houses lol. I wonder how many are still holding out to bid within the last couple hours to try and increase their chances by bidding on low participation houses. Some people are also idiots; some plots have 20+ bids on it while the subdivision equivalent only has 3-5.

[Yabby]

I was looking at a lot of the FC houses, and there are a TON without any bids... which pisses me off because every personal housing plot has 10+ for anything med+.

[Scythiroth]

I have no idea why they had way more wards designated for FC vs. personal housing. Feels like that should have been reversed.

[Corrderio]

I still wish they'd scrap the system and make it a closed instance like XI's moghouse but I know that's wishful thinking

[Lokus]

Housing should have always remained FC exclusive with personals being something like apartments that can be upgraded.

And as a preview of how lottery is gonna be after these first couple rounds, there's one Shirogane plot that got demolished before the patch hit but not enough time passed for it to get placard botted so it fell victim to the lottery. Had 78 bids on it when I went to sleep last night lol.

[Vaspinne]

I still wish they'd scrap the system and make it a closed instance like XI's moghouse but I know that's wishful thinking

They still have that island house minion farm thing that's still to come

[arus2001]

Yeah, I still stand by their choice of housing system dumb.

Pretty sure I've said this at some point over the years, but both instancing and the ability to construct a "neighborhood" with people on your friend's list should've been the way with public access a toggle. The neighborhood environment would otherwise have options to choose from relative to locale and even plot placement configuration (like 3x3x3, 2x6, etc.).

Going instanced from the start would also nip the "Oh no I "accidentally" bumped into (E)RP!" whines in the bud.

[Corrderio]

They still have that island house minion farm thing that's still to come

Hopefully it will be worth it. I'm not all that picky. I just want something to customize/toy around with

[Anoat]

So Machinist Chain Saw attack in pvp now has 3% (or 5% if buffed) chance to instant kill anything it hits. Yea, low chances but HILARIOUS when you KO the entire enemy team.

[Koyangi]

So it's like aoe knockback in FFXI in reverse? If primary target of an aoe knockback resists the knockback effect, noone gets knocked back. So if the instant death chance occurs on the target, then it affects all of them?

[Anoat]

Yeah it appears to be a dice roll when the ability fires and not a resist check on the target. I think because all the pvp attacks are set potency and gear stats mean nothing for resistance in pvp it does all abilities like that.

[Corrderio]

Welp no luck on the lottery and it doesn't seem like there's any way to indicate when someone actually got a house until they claim it so I need to wait. I really wish Yoshida would just nuke the housing system from orbit. It's obvious it's not a good system.

[Shenrien]

what a great system, I was 4 of the bids

[Corrderio]

Whoops. https://twitter.com/EENlX/status/1515348472068984835

[Shenrien]

I'm sure their QA only ran a simulated test on one plot, deemed it worked and thought they'd copy pasta the code for each placard to the next and call it a day.

[Corrderio]

When I first read it part of me was hoping it was a derp using the index of an array as the lottery winner but yeah those pics show it's a bug.

Other than that is there a way to know when you can bid on a plot besides examining the sign next to it?