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[the_sun_king]

Blegh, gonna have to wait an additional month til housing can even come within my price range for a small plot. :|

But yay for /slap! (Oh and /hug, too, I s'pose) And yay for Sands, Oil and UAT dropping all the time in Coil and ST respectively!

 

[Wilsongt]

Players may now add recipes to the hotbar and directly open the respective page of the Crafting Log.

As if my crafting bar wasn't cluttered enough. :O

A feature has been added for disabling the display of battle-related error messages that appear at the top of the screen.

Yay! No more message waiting for me as I spam click ruru's Contageon and Ruin. :O

The item subcommand "Item Comparison" has been added.

YAY!

SLAP! Time to slap some lalas!

The background music for Pharos Sirius has been adjusted.

:O So now the music will play the whole time!? Pharos will be bearable!

So some nice little quality of life adjustments and progression for novus folks. But for us plebs who don't run coil, don't do hunts, and don't even have an animus yet, this patch is a bust in terms of things to do.

 

[Kenai]

Those housing prices are fucking terrible. There's gonna be some serious salt on the official forums. And I have read the nexus upgrade details like 6 times now and I still understand nothing.

/hug and /slap tho

 

[Pellegri Testament]

Well at least we know now why there was never a preview of player housing, they literally did shit all with it and just did a copy/paste job when giving it to players. Now the question is, why will there be restrictions for players when both player and fc hosuing is the same damn thing?

 

[scy]

Nexus Weapon = Spiritbonding 2.0! Can even grind FATEs again so it's like Atma 2.0!

Seriously though, my best guess is they just don't want you to grind X repeatedly and you'll have to vary your grinding between all sorts of content. I can't wait for the Guildhest step.

 

[studyguy]

Guess it's a S house then, fuck doing M, I'll just go bankrupt.

 

[Kagari]

Yoshida. I am disappointed man... the housing stuff is just terrible.

 

[the_sun_king]

:O So now the music will play the whole time!? Pharos will be bearable!

Oh nice, didn't even notice that. Will it be the mix Soken put together live not too long ago?

 

[Redx508]

/slap

 

[Killthee]

Controller Settings (PlayStation®4 version only)
Remote Play Settings
Enable rear touch pad (Default: On)
* This setting allows you to disable rear touch pad controls on your PlayStation®Vita when playing remotely.

Yes! F'ing finally....

Note that this will render the L2, L3, R2, and R3 unusable, so consider your intended control scheme carefully before disabling.

Come on! How hard is it for them to offer the option of remapping L2, L3, R2, & R3 to the corners of the front touch screen the way its setup during the launcher.

 

[iammeiam]

Housing feels like they still couldn't do whatever their initial plan was--I had no plans to buy housing so I'm not personally impacted, but Jesus Christ is that a mess.

Relic sounds like it's probably still terrible so I guess I'll just keep on not doing it.

But man am I going to slap the shit out of people. Replacing half my emote crossbar icons with /slap ASAP.

 

[Mature]

:O So now the music will play the whole time!? Pharos will be bearable!

It's probably the extended version Soken made during the 14-hour stream.

 

[Pyros_Eien]

Nexus weapons sound like RNG something something grind all over again.

Really? To me it sounded like not RNG. Grind obviously, but it says your soul level increases, so I assume it's a gradual thing but it always increases a little bit at least. Doing certain activites at certain times will increase more and such. But you won't grind for 3hours and gain nothing, at least from what I understand. Sounds better than Atmas at least. And eh, might even get people to queue for dungeons again.

I assume the housing thing is kinda temporary, they're doing this to try to get some money out of the economy for now and in 2.4 the new areas will have more accessible prices, I guess. Though who knows, might still be 30millions for large houses or whatever. Don't care too much though, when I think personnal house, I don't think castle/manor, I think a single room appartment kind of thing, and the small house prices are alright, after they decay over time(2millions). Now I don't know if I wanna bother buying a house in the current residential areas though, not a big fan of how the Limsa one looks and hate the other 2. If we can get a Coerthas house in 2.4, I'd much rather wait for that. I guess in theory I could make 5millions back before 2.4 though.

 

[chrono01]

Well at least with the Sands of Time change I never have to do Hunts again.

Ever.

I need like...two more Sands for my BiS, and have been doing Hunts in-between my Second Coil runs to gear myself up more quickly. However, if one drops from every Turn in Second Coil [as well as in Syrcus Tower] it seems I no longer have any need to.

Whew.

 

[studyguy]

There are only 2 personal housing wards...
wut

 

[Valor]

This sounds hilarious:

What does... what does that even mean...

 

[Pellegri Testament]

There are only 2 personal housing wards...
wut

Well at least the ultra rich will go ahead and get things out of the way quickly enough, can't be having the rest of us filthy peasants get anything when it's been said quite a few times in the past that personal housing would be cheaper/different than fc housing.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

There are only 2 personal housing wards...
wut

Not that many people can afford to live on Elysium anyways

 

[Kagari]

Well at least with the Sands of Time change I never have to do Hunts again.

Ever.

I need like...two more Sands for my BiS, and have been doing Hunts in-between my Second Coil runs to gear myself up more quickly. However, if one drops from every Turn in Second Coil [as well as in Syrcus Tower] it seems I no longer have any need to.

Whew.

Alena will be pleased.

 

[studyguy]

I'm not waking up at 4AM to buy a home, so looks like I'm out till 2.4, no biggie.

 

[chrono01]

What does... what does that even mean...

I think it means something like your Novus increases by doing certain activities [FATE's, Dungeons, etc.] but the rate at which it improves isn't always constant. While you might always get attunement towards it, there might be times where you get a "bonus" that isn't expressively stated. So FATE's might give you more than Dungeons would during that time, and vice-versa.

At least, that's how I understood it.

Alena will be pleased.

Indeed.

For that as well as the /slap emote.

 

[Kagari]

I think it means something like your Novus increases by doing certain activities [FATE's, Dungeons, etc.] but the rate at which it improves isn't always constant. While you might always get attunement towards it, there might be times where you get a "bonus" that isn't expressively stated. So FATE's might give you more than Dungeons would during that time, and vice-versa.

At least, that's how I understood it.

Sounds almost like desynthing lol.

 

[Mature]

There are only 2 personal housing wards...
wut

Ahhh... What a mess. I'd have liked to see personal housing pushed to 3.0 and made into a very unique thing instead of this slipshod solution.

Maybe they'll still do something like that, who knows.

 

[Wilsongt]

Novus are mysterious things...

Hey, at least this poor guy will be able to correct his mistake. Lolololol

 

[iammeiam]

I read it as all housing wards could be personal or FC--I know on Ultros some of the wards weren't full (I think Lavender beds 5 or 6 is almost all vacant?), so I think there will be some 'cheaper' housing available for personal housing, and more than the two wards per area as options for purchase.

 

[Wagram]

Haha, SE doesn't disappoint when it comes to disappointing. Such a lazy implementation of personal housing.

I suppose it's nice to be that douche that already owns his own large personal fc house.

 

[chrono01]

Sounds almost like desynthing lol.

I haven't experienced desynthing for myself just yet, so I will take your word for it!

Having no knowledge of it, I'm not sure if the supposed plan to further upgrade your Novus is a good or bad thing.

The price of personal housing, though. That was a surprise.

 

[studyguy]

Anyone with a novus can enjoy their relic being on par with coil drops for the next month!
Or however long it takes

 

[scy]

Two new UI scaling increments (90% and 110%) have been added.

Wait, this changes everything.

An issue wherein the aggro range for certain monsters was erroneously low.
With this fix, monsters—particularly those found in instanced dungeons, trials, and raids—will have a greater aggro range than players have been accustomed to until now.

...so does this change some of the ways to skip pulls in some dungeons? Like, sneaking behind mobs to avoid LoS aggro?

I think it means something like your Novus increases by doing certain activities [FATE's, Dungeons, etc.] but the rate at which it improves isn't always constant. While you might always get attunement towards it, there might be times where you get a "bonus" that isn't expressively stated. So FATE's might give you more than Dungeons would during that time, and vice-versa.

At least, that's how I understood it.

I hope this is how it is. I'm curious as to the impact / reason behind the Alexandrite drops attached to FATEs now too. Surprised atmas weren't added to this too just to help alleviate the future alt class relic weapons :x

 

[Pyros_Eien]

There are only 2 personal housing wards...
wut

Don't know if translation but seems a bit contradictory, he says it'll double for 2.4, then he says they might not be able to get it working in time for 2.4 but are trying to. He said 2.4 in a month though, so that's nice, means they're working well enough on the other stuff so it shouldn't be delayed.

 

[Isaccard]

With the added Sands to Coil and ST, are hunts finally dead?

 

[Kagari]

With the added Sands to Coil and ST, are hunts finally dead?

They should have had those there back in 2.3.

 

[Frumix]

Let's just go over the notes.
Regarding Nexus. As we all know, Relic questline exists to boost demand in content that's been somehow dated or just less played. Nexus, despite being an Atma-style upgrade (i.e. upgrade in the name only) appears to be based on "activities". Sounds like they want us to play all kind of content depending on what's underused right now. This is not particularly a bad change considering hunts have murdered duty finder and then some. There's of course this "sharing of information" part which is really confusing, probably you won't be straight up told what you need to do, it's more likely a "I got 20 points from Titan Extreme today!" "Well, I got 1 point from Leviathan Hard today!" "Sounds like we need to do Titan Extreme!" model or something like that?

Yeah I'm somewhat considering retiring Thyrus.

Housing... the less said the better. I imagine they couldn't find a way to fit instanced player housing into their server capacity in the way it would've satisfied everyone. That really must be it, because doing it this shared way is just nothing short of spiteful. Only a few chosen have that kind of money without RMT and I assume every purchase, considering their small amount even all servers taken together, will be investigated, so don't even think about purchasing land if you have RMT history. Well, small houses sound realistic for most, but as the amount is ever so limited and even 8 extra wards will never be enough. Man, this is just depressing. What the fuck Yoshida, what the fuck.

Eastern La Noscea is getting extensions, interesting.

Kinda curious they didn't mention stats in Ramuh ring upgrades. If it's literally the same ring, only with i110 label slapped on it, that doesn't even match the other two 110 rings in the primary stat I will legit call foul play.

Cleric Stance is kill, well I guess I won't have to actually try in PVP anymore.
Sands for everyone! Oh wait everyone already has them.
Crafting recipe shortcuts are legit shook and one great thing in the update they've done.
Teleport interface is now clunkier than it was, t-thanks?

All in all a legitimately upsetting patch, probably the worst one in a while. No wonder they kept silent.

 

[Wilsongt]

Wait, this changes everything.



...so does this change some of the ways to skip pulls in some dungeons? Like, sneaking behind mobs to avoid LoS aggro?



I hope this is how it is. I'm curious as to the impact / reason behind the Alexandrite drops attached to FATEs now too. Surprised atmas weren't added to this too just to help alleviate the future alt class relic weapons :x

Oh. This is gonna make those Wanderer's Palace DR runs suck.

 

[Kintaro]

With the added Sands to Coil and ST, are hunts finally dead?

Except for S, probably. Depends on what you need to do for Nexus. They could force you to do both hunts and dungeons to improve the ...soulglaze.

 

[the_sun_king]

Nah they are going to make it so expensive that basically no one will be able to afford at first. It will slowly come down and people will save and next month they will have houses.

Lol Tomo called it.

 

[Pellegri Testament]

With the added Sands to Coil and ST, are hunts finally dead?

Nah just wait until you login and find out that hunts give by far the most credit towards upgrading your Novus.

 

[Isaccard]

Oh look, still no mention of clearing the dungeons of the fucking crafting trash in chests

 

[scy]

With the added Sands to Coil and ST, are hunts finally dead?

As far as ST is concerned, don't they fall under the loot lockout? I guess with Soldiery caps you don't really need more than one Sand/Oil a week anyway.

Oh. This is gonna make those Wanderer's Palace DR runs suck.

Honestly, I may be fine with this simply because I still haven't run the place and don't know the speedrun pulls anyway :x

But yeah, the only real thing that comes to mind are the walking behind dudes trash skips.

 

[suzu]

Yay, /slap and /hug.

So the player residential wards are a copy pasta of the FC wards too? lol

Oh look, still no mention of clearing the dungeons of the fucking crafting trash in chests

 

[Ala Alba]

Well, I feel silly thinking that a mere 3.5 million gil would be enough for a decent house.

As far as plot sizes go, can you still farm/chocobo raise with a small plot?

 

[Frumix]

Well, I feel silly thinking that a mere 3.5 million gil would be enough for a decent house.

As far as plot sizes go, can you still farm/chocobo raise with a small plot?

Yeah, small houses do get stables privilege and one garden patch.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

With the added Sands to Coil and ST, are hunts finally dead?

They're still the fastest and best way to quickly cap Soldiery every week.

 

[Kenai]

Well, I feel silly thinking that a mere 3.5 million gil would be enough for a decent house.

As far as plot sizes go, can you still farm/chocobo raise with a small plot?

Yea. I think large houses have more attainable garden space though.

 

[Pellegri Testament]

Well, I feel silly thinking that a mere 3.5 million gil would be enough for a decent house.

As far as plot sizes go, can you still farm/chocobo raise with a small plot?

"Maybe" was the last we heard of either of those as far as I'm aware. We heard something about farming about a month and a half ago and that was they were thinking about it, and then chocobo raising I think was confirmed but even that could change.

Problem is that they really just haven't said jack about any of this, no live letter has gone into detail about personal housing, few mod/dev posts have. It was always expected to be something completely different than fc housing and yet here we are a year after they really started getting into housing of any kind....and it's the same exact thing for both.

 

[Killthee]

Well, I feel silly thinking that a mere 3.5 million gil would be enough for a decent house.

As far as plot sizes go, can you still farm/chocobo raise with a small plot?

I'm pretty sure you can do both in a small plot. IIRC, the size of your plot determines how many garden patches you can have; small = 1 garden patch, medium = 2 garden patches, and large = 3 garden patches.

 

[Valor]

With the added Sands to Coil and ST, are hunts finally dead?

They've been pretty dead since the B nerf.

I think it means something like your Novus increases by doing certain activities [FATE's, Dungeons, etc.] but the rate at which it improves isn't always constant. While you might always get attunement towards it, there might be times where you get a "bonus" that isn't expressively stated. So FATE's might give you more than Dungeons would during that time, and vice-versa.

Makes a lot more sense than that backwards statement they issued. I wonder how much RNG they'll throw in to screw people over and make them cry.

They're still the fastest and best way to quickly cap Soldiery every week.

Not if Nexus has anything to say about it.

 

[HylianScribe]

If farming Levi/Ramuh/Shiva EX nets you the highest attunement possible, praise be to YoshiP. Relic BiS dream is alive for a few weeks.

Pony farm AND soulglazing!

Efficiency.

Pony drops instantly attune nexus in one shot. Believe.

 

[studyguy]

Fuck... should I buy a home?
Like if I do, I have to wake up at 4AM and I'm only going to get a S, cause fuck dropping all that cash. Ehhhh...

 

[scy]

Pony farm AND soulglazing!

Efficiency.