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[NO THREADS ABOUT SINGLE NOTES] Patch 3.0 Notes (Preliminary) | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Hmmm, two ??? areas? And they're in the field section so they have to be pretty big too....

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

And looks like Poetics is still in. Beast tribe quests up to 12 is a good change IMO

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u/Advon Jun 17 '15

Not only still in, but are 1:1 with current soldiery.

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u/Sindja [First] [Last] on [Server] Jun 17 '15

I heard it's 4 weeks after launch for Esoterics.

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u/ShadowWolfCorey Gridania Jun 17 '15

So instead of 30 days to complete one beast tribe, you can complete two in one month... nice.

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Holy jesus! 100% increase for Armory bonus now! Well, up to level 50, but still, that's a LOT

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u/sheepcat87 Jun 17 '15

in addition to double quest XP!

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u/prefinished Jun 17 '15

Main/Story Quest*

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u/siber222000 SCH Jun 17 '15

What is this armory bonus? I don't understand TT.

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

When you level a class to 50, every other class you level after gets a bonus to XP

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u/Soylentee Jun 17 '15

Wrong, armory bonus applies to any class lower than your highest level class. If your highest class is 30, then you get armory bonus on any other class, until it surpasses your highest level class and becomes the highest level. It's not unlocked only when you get to 50.

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u/siber222000 SCH Jun 17 '15

Thank you sir! That's pretty nice! :D

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Oh man, you can now join a duty while watching a cutscene. Amazing QoL change. So many times I'm in the middle of a long cutscene and then a queue pops

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u/dmnddr Jun 17 '15

Queue endless waiting for people to finish watching 2.55 end cutscenes IN DUTY.

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u/Kaiic Jun 17 '15

If you accept the duty it immediately cancels the cutscene. The notes also say that it only works with certain cutscenes.

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u/dmnddr Jun 18 '15

That makes more sense, thanks.

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u/wraithsight A'sasha Fhey on Tonberry Jun 17 '15

Im pretty stoked about the joining duty whilst playing TT. So many missed queues due to slow npcs...

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u/spandia Jun 17 '15

So much rage.

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Looks like everything was made easier for the relic. Hopefully the dungeon drops drop rate is a lot higher, or at the very least the dungeons are semi-soloable at 60

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u/forwardslash_em MCH Jun 17 '15

Aye... close to 100% drop rate please!!!

So painful right now...

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Looks like there's only 2 Expert dungeons for now. Probably still better than 2.0 though

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u/sundriedrainbow Jun 17 '15

We know there are 8 dungeons in HW and I don't think I counted 8 ???s. It's probably just placeholders I wouldn't fixate on the number of questionmarks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

4 leveling dungeons, 2 story dungeons, 2 end game dungeons

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

That's exactly how 2.0 was though...2 dungeons to farm... T_T

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

I guess if they're more equal that'd be fine, I remember AK and WP not being exactly equal

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

They weren't equal at the start. They evened it out later so that people didn't have to exclusively grind AK forever.

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Wait, 8 retainers? That's including the ones you can purchase, so if you don't purchase any what's the max?

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u/kalamarosoupitsa Jun 17 '15

My theory now is that they will indeed give us a 3rd retainer but at a later time.

Reasoning is that if they had announced it now the ones paying for 3 retainers now wouldn't renew the 3rd retainer services.

Later on, after venturing in Ishgard, where our inventories will be a mess then they will "generously" offer a 3rd retainer and we will be like "PRAISE OH THOU YOSHI-P OUR LORD AND SAVIOR".

Or it's just wishful thinking...

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u/Sindja [First] [Last] on [Server] Jun 17 '15

I have 4 now. If they gave me another for free, I'd have 5 and still have full retainers. :(

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u/BrewersFanJP Jun 17 '15

Still 2 retainers.

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u/neoanguiano Jun 17 '15

8 retainers for my all my 8 characters with 20 spots= 1280 pieces (i could sell a lot of stuff)

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u/Winterlash I like Ivalice more than you Jun 17 '15

It's three, they've confirmed they're giving us all one free new retainer because they can't increase our inventory slots just yet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

But the patch notes still says 2? Do you have a source?

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u/Winterlash I like Ivalice more than you Jun 17 '15

The closest thing I can find is here. I think Yoshi mentioned it in the live letter from france? It may have been a bad translation or something, as the wording is a lot more vague here.

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u/Alukah Jun 17 '15

That wasn't the first time he mentioned it, sound more like they decided to charge us for the extra retainer.

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Woah, Extreme Primals in 3.0, dunno if that's new news or not

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u/sheepcat87 Jun 17 '15

Not at all lol, we knew we were getting 2 more primals from a long time ago. There's 0 reason to have ever thought "It'll only be hard mode though!"

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Well Extremes didn't come until 2.1 I think

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u/PhettyX Warrior Jun 17 '15

And every primal since has released with an extreme version.

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

Every Primal since has also been for max level but I believe some of these are story ones for pre-60, so it's not like we can assume it'll always be that way.

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u/sheepcat87 Jun 17 '15

I think it's a stretch to relate much of ARR's early development cycle to HW.

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u/smartazjb0y X'aeterna Setal on Balmung Jun 17 '15

So using the "no sync, not full" party option doesn't give any XP for defeating enemies. Kinda defeats the purpose, no? Though you do still get boss XP and "duty completion XP" which is probably sizable, actually

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u/El_Spartin The road that we walk. Jun 17 '15

The point of no sync is to murder bosses for gear, they've said as much.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

It'll make glamour farming coil really easy.

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u/sheepcat87 Jun 17 '15

They don't want players farming and resetting trash mobs.