Heavensward 3.0 Patch Notes

[Dravus]

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Adding so much functionality to housing is incredibly stupid given the terrible state of the system as is. I will be extremely disappointed if housing gets any more development time or money wasted on it before the actual problems inherent in the system are addressed.

 

Housing is one of the few things that FFXIV has screwed up badly in my opinion. If they ever add a new housing district then they need to limit the amount of houses that a player can own in it to one per server, per account.

 

Personal rooms are decent but they still end up with the unfortunate situation where players are locked out of playing around with exterior decorations. Wildstar's housing model was brilliant - it was unlocked fairly early on, everybody could get one and the time/gold sink was limited to specific pieces of decoration rather than essential stuff.

 

I think housing is going to be one of the biggest controversies as the game moves forward unless we get some confirmation that it's going to be made accessible. I have a feeling it won't be, though, if only because of technical limitations.

 

Another issue is that on a server like Balmung there's no houses free aside from those that people own and sell - so whilst the base price might be, say, 10 million gil (which is already very steep for anybody not investing in crafting/gathering) they're being bought up and sold by rich players for almost twice that price or more.

 

...and on servers where there aren't a lot of players they're just gathering dust. Yet people are unlikely to transfer there purely for housing when they've friends and connections on their current server.

[Brynhilde]

 

YYYYYYYYESSSSSSSSSSSSSS I CALLED IT, GRIFFINS RELATED TO ALA MHIGO

[Melodia]

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[2.0] To reduce server congestion after the release of patch 3.0, players who are inactive for thirty minutes will be logged out automatically.

 

 

This is good. I hate AFK drones that linger for days. They'll eventually go back to normal but for this release? Good on SE.

 

EDIT: I can't see notes at work so just commenting on something I found interesting.

[Kellach Woods]

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Housing is one of the few things that FFXIV has screwed up badly in my opinion. If they ever add a new housing district then they need to limit the amount of houses that a player can own in it to one per server, per account.

 

Personal rooms are decent but they still end up with the unfortunate situation where players are locked out of playing around with exterior decorations. Wildstar's housing model was brilliant - it was unlocked fairly early on, everybody could get one and the time/gold sink was limited to specific pieces of decoration rather than essential stuff.

 

I think housing is going to be one of the biggest controversies as the game moves forward unless we get some confirmation that it's going to be made accessible. I have a feeling it won't be, though, if only because of technical limitations.

 

From what I'm interpreting from the notes - if it's a personal house you do NOT get access to the workshop.

 

So it makes the whole deal even more baffling because all personal houses technically means one less FC on the server can have an airship.

[Nebbs]

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[2.0] To reduce server congestion after the release of patch 3.0, players who are inactive for thirty minutes will be logged out automatically.

 

ARE YOU FOR REAL?

 

PARTY TIMES AHOY. LET'S GO.

 

Oh and then the moaning when it happens and you are in a queue of 200 again

[Stormwind]

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Housing is one of the few things that FFXIV has screwed up badly in my opinion. If they ever add a new housing district then they need to limit the amount of houses that a player can own in it to one per server, per account.

 

Personal rooms are decent but they still end up with the unfortunate situation where players are locked out of playing around with exterior decorations. Wildstar's housing model was brilliant - it was unlocked fairly early on, everybody could get one and the time/gold sink was limited to specific pieces of decoration rather than essential stuff.

 

I think housing is going to be one of the biggest controversies as the game moves forward unless we get some confirmation that it's going to be made accessible. I have a feeling it won't be, though, if only because of technical limitations.

 

From what I'm interpreting from the notes - if it's a personal house you do NOT get access to the workshop.

 

So it makes the whole deal even more baffling because all personal houses technically means one less FC on the server can have an airship.

I would venture this to be correct. The verbage of the entire system talks about the "Company" as a whole and the cooperation of Free Company members to complete objectives.

[Kage]

P9isrXOAUVc

 

Some new mount things

 

ALSO. I SO WANT THIS

[K'nahli]

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[2.0] To reduce server congestion after the release of patch 3.0, players who are inactive for thirty minutes will be logged out automatically.

 

ARE YOU FOR REAL?

 

9_JcM45gaFs

 

PARTY TIMES AHOY. LET'S GO.

 

Can this still be bypassed by certain actions? I really hope not, but even if that is the case it should help at least a little.

 

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What do they mean by "Emotes where female characters other than lalafells crouch have been adjusted."?

...Was there a problem there before?:?

They said awhile back that they didn't like the idea of people taking "dirty" screenshots, so I'd assume it's to deal with Miqo'te twerking and other things, maybe even a slight adjustment to hide the upskirt that happens to? I'm not sure on the last one but I think it's mainly the twerking.

 

I kind of hope so actually. I find that incredibly unfunny personally, haha ;

 

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Dravus]

The change to emotes is a little bizarre given all the sexual innuendos present in the game...though is that something largely exclusive to the the English translation?

[Blue]

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Want red and black Coeurl. BAD. Wonder where that will come from.

 

EDIT: I take it back. It's not Gold Saucer.

 

Take a look at DRK's PvP armor.

 

 

Hint: PLD and WAR's PvP sets are shaped like lion and bear respectively.

[Kage]

Can we talk about how the lvl 60 WHM spell is called Tetragrammaton?

[mongi291]

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Can we talk about how the lvl 60 WHM spell is called Tetragrammaton?

Doesn't sound very WHM-like...

[Stormwind]

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Can we talk about how the lvl 60 WHM spell is called Tetragrammaton?

Isn't that the Bene-like ability that gives like a flat 50%(?) of the targets health back?

[Chris Ganale]

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Can we talk about how the lvl 60 WHM spell is called Tetragrammaton?

 

I don't care what my friends say, I will always see that as a shout out to Equilibrium.

[Gegenji]

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Can we talk about how the lvl 60 WHM spell is called Tetragrammaton?

Isn't that the Bene-like ability that gives like a flat 50%(?) of the targets health back?

 

You're being healed with Tetragrammatons of force! Tetragrammaton is totally a measure of aetheric healing, right? Like, grammatons are a lot and Tetragrammatons are four times that. So that's four lots.

[Melkire]

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Can we talk about how the lvl 60 WHM spell is called Tetragrammaton?

Isn't that the Bene-like ability that gives like a flat 50%(?) of the targets health back?

 

You're being healed with Tetragrammatons of force! Tetragrammaton is totally a measure of aetheric healing, right? Like, grammatons are a lot and Tetragrammatons are four times that. So that's four lots.

 

I hate how they've chosen an epithet for God that has its roots in Greek. Makes it sound related to mathematics and geometry. As a result, it sounds like a skill name more apt for SCHs than WHMs.

[Aaron]

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What do they mean by "Emotes where female characters other than lalafells crouch have been adjusted."?

...Was there a problem there before?:?

They said awhile back that they didn't like the idea of people taking "dirty" screenshots, so I'd assume it's to deal with Miqo'te twerking and other things, maybe even a slight adjustment to hide the upskirt that happens to? I'm not sure on the last one but I think it's mainly the twerking.

I like how they forgot male characters are subject to that too.

 

I should know. This guy straight up told me he was repeatedly using /disappoint for screenshots for his jacking folder.

 

I proceeded to back away slowly.

[Mercer]

NERF HOLY INTO THE GROOOOUND!

 

[Kellach Woods]

And they nerfed Dzemael farming too.

 

AND I NERFED HOLY TO THE GROUND

I'M NOT A PART OF YOUR FARM GROUP

[Aaron]

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NERF HOLY INTO THE GROOOOUND!

 

I be people will still Holy spam talking about "ITS STILL DPS"

[Mercer]

FLARE'S NOT PART OF YOUR SYYYYYYSTEM!

 

[Aaron]

W-What!?

 

NOT THE BLM THEY'RE ACTUALLY DPS

[Kellach Woods]

Diminishing returns on large damage AoE abilities is standard fare. Hell, casting a spell on everyone in regular FF games usually yields less damage individually.

[Chris Ganale]

So....if that's legit, Flare is no longer useful.

[Kellach Woods]

It's still pretty useful, just not as zomg powerful as it used to be.

 

It's still the go-to finisher at low-MP levels in Astral 3, you can still do 2x/3xFlare on single target enemies for mad damage (Fire 3 is at 230 Potency, Flare is 260 and I don't believe you'll have Enochian up at all times.)

 

And other classes also got AoE potential in 3.0, SMN specifically.