Airships in use won't be unusable for 90 minutes. They will return after 20 minutes meaning that an airship can theoretically transport 3 parties within an hour.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| The Midas Touch
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Airships in use won't be unusable for 90 minutes. They will return after 20 minutes meaning that an airship can theoretically transport 3 parties within an hour.
Where do you see that?
If so, how does the party on the island get "picked up"?
Also on this:
I don't understand why they just don't remove those items. They are useless.
Why else would they mention the 20 minute thing if they wouldn't be usable again after that?
It doesn't seem that complicated. Every 20 minutes when the airships come back, you send out a new group of 24 people. Unless I'm missing something.
You just exit the instance.
Oh man the era of WAR is over.
They would have to really nerf tank DPS to convince players to use VIT accessories anymore. Or really increase the tank buster damage.
By the way, buy as many DET 4 and CRIT 4's before 3.2 as possible, because 3.2 raid gear will have materia slots.
My guess is they'll kill how much benefit STR gives to tanks versus actual melee DPS, like how VIT got nerfed for healers in Frontlines.
That answer sounds more like they're focused on tanks benefitting from two main stats that raid accessories can't give, than they are with actual tank DPS.
That answer sounds more like they're focused on tanks benefitting from two main stats that raid accessories can't give, than they are with actual tank DPS.
SliceSabre
Banned
Wasn't it mentioned they were going to adjust the numbers on the medicinal items? Cause as it stands a Healer for example gets very little mana back relative to their overall pool when using x-Ether.
Yeah. I don't think they said which specific ones but you could probably guess.
SliceSabre
Banned
Unless they're making VIT a damage stat, this just means less DPS but still doing the melded gear so not sure what their intent is here.
No, just means you can't pentameld VIT/STR, just the guaranteed slot(s). Would be just the single VIT/STR Vs for accessories most likely.
Glendemonium
Member
Munba
Member
I'm war and i would be happy for it. Tank must tank, not to do dps, so it'll be good.
Eh, lowering damage doesnt suddenly mean you're not still going to push damage. You just do less but you still should be maxing it out. It's about as terrible of a change as possible to simply cut the damage output.
Forcing more health doesn't even make you tankier anyway.
RPGCrazied
Member
Hey guys, so I just hit 50 on my Dragoon, and finished the job quests. Now I have to go to Castrum Meridianum. An 8 player duty finder instance.
Can this instance be unsynced for a couple of high levels to destroy the instance, or do I have to duty finder this?
Can this instance be unsynced for a couple of high levels to destroy the instance, or do I have to duty finder this?
TastyOreoFriend
Member
It doesn't really sound like a nerf to me. It honestly sounded to me like there's a high chance they'll just be switching the damage calculations around. So VIT would take the place of STR in a tanks dmg calculation which would make more sense and make fending accessories worth it again all at the same time.
It'd still be the same situation, but you won't have to spend millions to get there via crafted accessories.
This is a narrow minded view of tanking considering how passive mitigation is in this game.
No it wouldn't. The current meta isn't going anywhere unless tanks are drastically redesigned. Tuning fights lower might fix the trickle down happening in the casual side of things with the meta today, but as a whole nothing will really change about optimal play if your serious about tanking.
Tanking is already one of lowest skill/high execution jobs in the game, and passive mitigation insures that the DPS meta will be hear to stay unless there's a drastic redesign on the way tanks play. Even if Penta melds go the way of the Dodo, barring nerfs, optimal WAR play will still involve stance dancing and the same goes for the rest of the tanks.
It's a gamechanger for the endgame.
PataHikari
Banned
They'll probably just make new Alchemist recipes.
You know, it's funny. I read limitation and my initial thought was "Wow, good idea, now you can design these monsters around the max people in the instance and we can have some real fights in here instead of zerging hard and never seeing a mechanic!" but now that I realize that 72 people is the limitation, I guess I'm just gearing up to do Hunt mobs in an instance, which I am okay with. Just was hoping for something a little better but I'm not gonna get too discouraged about it.
The absence of hildy does seem odd at this point.
Ah cool. A trailer at last. It all seems pretty good. Though standouts were this guy who seems to have a fart attack. And this looks totally nuts.
Fuck Hildebrand.
Which should have been [OT2]
No new relic weapons is weird.
I want some more goofy side quests (doesn't have to be about Hildy though).
Also can I use the cute primal minions instead of the egis, pls. D:
Ignore drama.
Dat copypasta tradition.
I want some more goofy side quests (doesn't have to be about Hildy though).
Also can I use the cute primal minions instead of the egis, pls. D:
Ignore drama.
Dat copypasta tradition.
3.15 for relic so probably around late December it looks like?
all in the family <3
Yeah, it can be unsynced and you can be run through it.
TastyOreoFriend
Member
They need to make materia massively easier to get, and disable overmelding entirely(not just limiting it to secondaries), for endgame gear in 3.2. The cost that will be involved for pentamelding every piece of gear will be goddamn insane otherwise.
Materia was listed as possible reward for turning in points in totallynotinstancedhunts, so maybe already on the way there. If overmelding % stays the same it will still be painful though. I like the idea of some added customization but using current systems this will be absolutely horrid. Hopefully they think this through.
Materia was listed as possible reward for turning in points in totallynotinstancedhunts, so maybe already on the way there. If overmelding % stays the same it will still be painful though. I like the idea of some added customization but using current systems this will be absolutely horrid. Hopefully they think this through.
The playstyle would remain the same in your scenario, except that the risk would be naturally way lower. Keeping the damage we have now but increasing the HP. It'd make things so much easier.
RPGCrazied
Member
Awesome, how many would it take?
If the predictions about Reactor EX weapons are true, you could probably do that with a Hive weapon and get something stronger than the Esoterics.
Not long at all.
I'm thinking the Reactor EX weapons will be 210 but... you don't need to clear A4S to get them, hence the "helping Savage Alex groups in progression"
Well 72 is the maximum so it won't always be that number. I like to think they have learnt enough not to serve up another zerg fest but only time will tell.
Why are they de-incentivising people from doing Bis Ex? That makes no sense.
Exploration missions really are just instanced hunts with a short throttle on the zerg in the form of aether currents and depending on the rewards, gathering nodes.
Not that there's anything wrong with a zerg. I'm sure they'll botch the scaling on the S ranks so they're a pain to snipe with a full 24 man FC group to "encourage" jolly cooperation within the instance.