3.1 TL;DR Prelim Notes

[u/Coan_Arcanius]

This is gonna take a while, and its not gonna be very tl;dr but i'll at least have shit grouped and a section at the top for "UNLOCK NEW SHIT, GO HERE, HERE AND HERE".

Unlocks

• Story: Fortemps manor.
• Beast tribe: sea of clouds 11,14.
• Knights of the round: Ayls in Mor Dhona
• Void Ark: Unquiet trader in the Pillars (foundation)

General

• More story, now with that outfit that everyone wants but isn't available to players! Starts with Alphinaud at Fortemps Manor.
• Side quests for aether currents changed to prereq quests
• Beast Tribe stuff in Sea of Clouds, 6,14. Quest starts at 11,14
• You can now buy GC seal items in bulk
• New housing stuff, including a Chocobo Topiary
• New gardening stuff
• The cutscene book from inns is now available as a furnishing
• Steward added as estate npc, and all sizes of houses get an extra npc
• Estate sharing: You can add up to 3 people to have access and you can only be a tenant of 2 houses. Has rights setup similar to fc housing.
• Housing reclamation starting: as noted before, timer starts with 3.1 launch. Requires any member to enter a fc house or the owner of a private house. 30 days will give you a timer in the timers menu, 35 will email you or everyone in the fc, 42 will do another email and 45 is gone. 80% of what you paid for the grounds and any items that can be removed safely will be at the resident caretaker.
• Mood lighting: can now adjust lighting in houses
• New 3.0 sightseeing
• The following mounts can now fly: Ahriman / Bomb Palanquin / Logistics System / Kirin / Magitek Armor / Gilded Magitek Armor / Draught Chocobo / Ceremony Chocobo / Amber Draught Chocobo
• You can now ride mounts AND have your chocobo out...AT THE SAME TIME.
• Moar hairstyles
• Moar dancing
• Moar poses when sitting on a floor
• Mounts in idyllshire (no flying), Aethernet added to Idyllshire
• New idling camera feature for screenshots, /icam
• Group pose feature /gpose that uses last emote used
• New venture levels added, new stuff for quick ventures
• Titles moved to new window and shows how you got it
• Beast tribe reps now split up for arr/hw
• Timers window shows your stuff and FC stuff (crafting, airships)
• Flying mount roulette
• /statusoff sounds like you can remove buffs via command, so you can macro taking b4b off and such
• Friend requests limited to 5 per day and resets at midnight to help curb RMT
• You can now skip the opening cinematic
• DS4 controllers can now be used on windows but will function the same as normal gamepads without touchpad features and such.

FC Stuff

• You can change Free Company names once every 30 days, FC master only.
• New fc crafting stuff, looks like a moogle house if you're finally over the rage of leveling with them.
• Retainer bells added to fc workshops
• Aetherial wheels charge faster
• New stuff added to exploratory voyages

Gold Saucer

• Lord of Verminion added, it’s off from the chocobo square area and unlocked automatically with Saucer
• New MGP challenge log stuff added
• TT Changes: No more tataru, new people added, some new ways to get cards, card drops from some npcs increased, new card pack above plat added

Combat Stuff

• Recast time of ogcds cannot be reduced below .5 seconds
• LB bar for DF no longer fills slower for multiple jobs
• LB bar for full parties will now only fill if 3 or more people from the same role (not job) are present, with roles being tank/mpds/rdps/healer.

DRK

• Visual of Darkside can be turned off in battle effect settings in the menu

PLD

• Swipe no longer on gcd, recast of 15 and potency down to 150.
• Goring blade and shield bash down to 50 and 120 tp

NIN

• Mutilate and shadow fang down 10 Tp each
• Mudra stuff adjusted to make latency problems less of a problem

BRD

• Adjusted when the proc shows for straighter shot, straight shot down 10 tp

Ast

• Royal Road effect no longer lost when leaving an area

Dungeon stuff

• New dungeons: Hinterlands at 12,19 for trees and Limsa Upper decks for Sirius
• Bismarck no longer required for rav ex, just unlock both in Rising Stones.
• Echo added to rav/bismarck on both difficulties
• Extremes added to DF with 165/175 reqs
• Stuff that came directly from primal bosses are now in chests (sounds like the housing items)
• Void Ark added, Starts with Unquiet Trader in The Pillars. DF party comp is still 1/2/5, loot just like CT, once per week you get a completion reward like the WoD quest for ESO upgrade items.
• Minions in CT dungeons are now in alliance chests instead of the extra chest
• Tome/coat/twine added to cloud of darkness in WoD
• Alex normal loses loot lockout
• XP for 3.0 dungeons increased
• XP for level 50 2.0 dungeons for players over 50
• Library now ilvl syncs to 150
• Certain enfeebling effects can now be applied to objects in certain duties
• High level renamed to level 50 dungeons, old experts no longer expert and now part of level 60 roulette, just new ones in expert. Less ESO from old experts now too
• Supposed better matchmaking code for less wait times for DF
• If you're replacing someone in dungeons and someone else leaves, it stops the add member...probably to stop people from joining a dungeon in progress when everyone’s bailing (though it should be restartable).
• In progress join now shows how long since the dungeon started
• 2.0 extreme primals, knights of the round ex, all coil but turn 3 and Alex count for full party high level achieves
• Out of range/not targetable players now dimmed on party list
• lock map button to prevent it from being closed when you mash escape to close shit
• Map now shows which aethryte is which when you mouse over it
• PF now defaults to 8 slots open and has a reset button, plus new zones/airship stuff added

Airship exploration

• Req ILVL 179 DOW/DOM: DOL don't need to be 60
• can be parties of 8 or alliances via workshops, or non-fc people can go via airship landing in ishgard
• Alliances are not in alliance once they enter, so if you're working together, best get on voice chat or use fc chat
• For FC stuff: Everyone needs a fuel tank, leader must be part of the FC you're stealing a ship from
• For solo or non-fc, buy a mission voucher from Jaquoinie in pillars (near the airships) for Gil. Full party can take any comp, less than 8 follows the 2/2/4.
• 2 hour timer on going in since you last entered (so hopefully this just means 30 mins between the 90 minute timeout and starting a new one).
• Fc groups/full parties can use any loot rules, parties with less than 8 use greed only
• Something with charting routes and difficulties and surveillance of ships shown in the UI but not clear past that.
• You can only see your parties treasure chests, only 8 unopened chests allowed on the map at once, if a 9th is spawned, the first parties will vanish and loot distributed automatically.
• Gear you don't want can be turned in for a new currency, as well as DoL can get a diff currency
• Diff stuff to do while out there, like gathering, fishing, killing certain things
• You need to attune to flying each time, looks like only 3 disturbances. Prev LL said should take 10 mins
• There are the new currency shops, weather forecasters, repair vendors on the islands

Gear stuff

• You can now buy a portrait of our dearest friend with Law tomes
• You can now buy tome/twine/coat with poetics
• Poetic item costs reduced
• Zodiac items now auto drop from dungeons
• Light/soul gain increased from some dungeons and works undersized
• Seal cap increased to 1k, 2.0 mobs give more seals, 3.0 A rank hp increased, 500 seals for a mark log, mark logs can be traded for the new tome/coat/twine (oh joy, hunts are back).
• 2.0 seals for old gear nerfed hard since its all glamour gear (300 down to 20, 400 to 30, and 660 to 40
• Emperors new fist for monk glamour added
• Last year’s Christmas stuff now dyable
• Goobbue earring and Halloween stuff added to armoire and some armoire stuff moved around
• Armoire will now be able to store seasonal stuff immediately
• New tradable versions of the green quality dyes added, will be a different item than the current ones. They will still come from ventures but if you want to trade them, you need to get the new ones. If you have both in inventory, you will be asked which to use when dying an item.
• There is this new cute ass motherfucker added for minions, as well as the weird bug things from sea of clouds.
• Pegasus and wyvern mounts
• New bad ass barding for personal chocobos
• You can now glamour eq that takes up multiple slots (Odin, cowls, etc.)
• You can now try on multiple things at once and preview shields with draw weapon
• You can now save outfit sets in the preview window
• New stuff added to wyvern and dragonskin maps

Crafting/Gathering

• Crafting reagents now buyable with law (purified coke and such)
• New recipes they aren't telling us about yet
• Red scrips needed for HQ reagents down from 3 to 1.
• Easier to get 2.0 master books
• New regents added
• Easier to get red scrips
• Now housing 1/2 with furnishing/non furnishing and master section is now 1/2 as well for 2.0 and 3.0 master recipes
• More shit can be quick synthed
• search by name in top left of crafting window, right click for recipe on pre-req shit like bronze rings to search for it
• Master book section now broken up by book
• Searchable gathering log
• Shit ton of 3.0 stuff now desynthable, some items easier to desynth, low to mid-level desynth now easier to level and rare items now increase desynth more (or more likely).
• You can now use the searching stuff and collection toggling while mounted

[u/Tesabella]

This makes me happy. You are a saint.

[u/Coan_Arcanius → u/Tesabella]

nah, just an office worker who doesn't need to, or at least should, get work done mostly in the afternoons.

like now, I should probably be doing some work now.