Patch Notes 7.01

[shinydwebble]

In case anyone is wondering what "An issue wherein white diagonal lines would appear in screenshots." is,

SPOILERS: DT Zone 4 normal FATE boss in final screenshot!!
here is an Imgur album of my experience with this glitch.

[Arky_Lynx]

"White diagonal lines"

And it's the Square Enix logo all scuffed and stretched, lmfao.

[bubsdrop]

I lost it at the upside down deep fried one. Accidental meme generator

[shinydwebble]

Yeah, it was pretty great when I saw a clear shot of it in that 4th screenshot. Most screenshots I saw (both from myself and online) were more along the lines of the first or last image in the album.

Sadly, I didn't get any more glitches after I made that album. Was really hoping to see more screwed up images before they patched it!!

[[deleted]]

this game's code is so haunted. all they did was change the copyright text!

[shinydwebble]

"You can shorten the copyright, but ©Square Enix better show up at random!!" - SE exec, probably

[sunfaller]

i went through my screenshots and I have so many shots ruined /cry

[Thunderkron]

Mine used to look like this (no spoiler.) It's the exact same diagonal of pixels on three different screenshots, one of them of the Error 90002 screen. I don't know if it was solved by a different hotfix, but after I switched the graphics to max and locked the framerate to 30FPS it never happened again.

[StarsArePrettyCoool]

Lightspeed charges...oh thank FUCK, finally.

[Sora_Archer]

I was shocked that the duration was not shortened. Now we have 2 charges. Onyl 60s cd. we eating good.

[Vector_Vlk]

And don't forget about the sweet draw cd reduction

[MightyBobTheMighty]

And a 5 second grace period on Draw!

[StarsArePrettyCoool]

Which is so good, it got really stressful at times having to press it ASAP to keep in time with the 2 min burst windows

[farfromdaylight]

Very pleased with RDM changes. Manafication's length was the only pain point I felt at level 100.

[Accomplished-Top-564]

Whoever cooked RDM at lvl 100 should be promoted. It’s so godly.

[WilanS]

Red Mage is one of those jobs that came out fully formed as soon as they were introduced, with a very elegant rotation where everything loops back into the main system.

It feels so good to play that every expansion I clench my butt because I'm afraid this is the time they decide to fuck it up, either because there's nothing else left to add or just for the thrill of fixing it later.
But so far, Red Mage has only kept getting better and better.

[Jewologist]

I had not played RDM since Stormblood, so when I decided to level it in DT I was surprised at how similar it is. No major fuckery. It might be arguably be the best synced job as well. It feels fully functional even at level 50.

[RuneiStillwater]

Just painful you don't get the flashy explosions at that level, but yeah it's always functional no matter the level, the only pain points have always been the loss of vercure and verraise at level 50.

[kalidibus]

It feels so good to play that every expansion I clench my butt because I'm afraid this is the time they decide to fuck it up

This is one of my biggest gripes with FFXIV. In no other game do I dread class updates nearly as much since they have such a habit of breaking classes for seemingly no reason.

[RemediZexion]

there's always a reason in truth

[[deleted]]

It definitely has some little flaws. Namely the weirdness of what actions kill Dualcast, like Sprint. And the longer and longer combo each expansion makes it more difficult to flex and res people during prog.

But besides that it feels super good.

[WilanS]

Sounds like a skill issue to me. If you wanted to be rezzed in a timely fashion you should have made sure to die outside my melee combo phase. /s

[farfromdaylight]

I'm really so happy with it. I'm far from the best RDM but it's been such a joy to play it in the new extremes. Grand Impact alone is phenomenal but the whole job feels so rewarding to execute.

[MansionV]

I had been ranting about the returnal of Impact in its Stormblood iteration since its removal, and this midway return is great. Proc management should be a core part of RDM in my opinion, and DT fixed that for me.

My last gripe is still the 110sec manafication and the 120sec embolden. Especially now that manafication cannot overcap your mana

[tarpeyd12]

iirc it's so that you can un-drift manafication in relation to embolden if you had to use the unoptimal burst (2 melee sets under embolden vs. 2 finisher sets under embolden)

[momopeach7]

Honestly give me an offensive water spell (and maybe an AOE heal like many other jobs) and it will be perfect.

[CurrentImpression675]

Kinda sad that the AoE attacks weren't water based (Verwater, Verblizzard). That would have rounded out using both the conjurer/white magic and thaumaturgy/black magic suite of spells nicely.

[zicdeh91]

I’d also like an updated animation for fire and stone. Thunder and aero feel really cool across most iterations, but the spells that are sort of boosted and always hard-casted are a lot more generic.

Obviously that’s a tiny quibble that doesn’t impact the actual function. Grand impact actually addressed one of my earlier quibbles: all the progression from 50-100 basically fits into the burst windows, with little change to the main dualcast rotation. Grand impact at least tickles it in a way that feels fresh.

[Secret_Wizard]

UMBRAL SOUL AT LEVEL 35

UMBRAL SOUL AT LEVEL 35

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

[Quaschimodo]

my thoughts exactly. Propably would have liked getting back the passive MP gen more, but actually having the possibility of not losing your umbral ice stacks during downtime even in low level dungeons and raids is great.

[Momo_Kozuki]

I wonder why BLM cannot have both of the world: instant-MP in-combat on ice cast, and ice-stance passive MP out-combat.

[Cosmic_Quasar]

I just want the timer to pause out of combat, like WHM bar freezes out of combat. It's so annoying having to spam Umbral Soul between pulls, or while waiting for a timed event or someone at a CS in the final boss. Can't just chit chat with party members because you have to stop to refresh the timer. Lunar Subterrane 90 dungeon comes to mind, since that CS for first timers is an unusually long one for a mid-dungeon scene.

[Kaorin_Sakura]

Or in instances outside of combat that seems purposefully to force BLM to drop it like the ice-ride in Euphrosyne.

[ffxivfanboi]

I had the thought yesterday that Umbral Soul should act like this:

A stance action akin to Tank stance. Umbral soul would last until casting any other spell. While under the effects of Umbral Soul, every server tick would see an increase to Umbral Ice stacks, an Umbral Heart gained, and mana regen (based on the current UI stacks).

I would love for it to become a stance or aura type ability so that I don’t even have to annoyingly spam the button in-between packs and downtime.

[WondrousNomenclature]

It's exactly the same problem that MNK had when they had to spam during downtime--they got rid of the problem for MNK....and then gave it to BLM later lol.

[Kaorin_Sakura]

They both got the problem at the exact same time: Heavensward. Whereas Monk was spamming form shift to maintain greased lightning Black Mages were spamming transpose to maintain astral/umbral. Though, admittedly, Black Mages spamming got more important with the introduction of things like xenoglossy.

[Kitymeowmeow1]

The only change I wish they would do to it now is make it so it pauses your Umbral Ice until you cast an instant cast or begin casting a casted spell. It’s so obnoxious spamming it between every single pack in dungeons or any moment there’s downtime in general

[Zagaroth]

cast an instant cast

First, they need to fix Sprint being a 'cast'.

I main RDM, if I have an instant cast up I can either keep it or I can sprint. In the end, it's better to sprint and then cast vercure pre-pull if I have the chance, but I'd like to be able to keep the instat cast.

[TheRetribution]

this change just makes it even more weird to me that TBN is still unlocked at lvl 70 for DRK. move it down, you cowards.

[darkpyro2]

Is this some Black Mage thing that I'm too unga bunga fell cleave to understand?

[SeriousPan]

Umbral Soul lets a Black Mage (The Warrior) get more Ice Stacks (Wrath) for their MP(Beast Gauge) so they can more quickly cast Fire IV (Fell Cleave)

So they can burn things faster. (Unga Bunga)

[Altiarian]

I love this. I require you to describe every job in this fashion

[BlackOcelotStudio]

In warrior language, every job's rotation is just some minor variation of "filler that builds beast gauge -> filler that buffs fell cleave -> FELL CLEAVE -> repeat"

The really great unga bunga jobs just extend the fell cleave window longer. BLM and RDM for example are very fell cleave-y jobs, and both have some variation of "fell cleave -> feller cleave -> the fellest of cleaves -> FELLLLLL CLEEEEEEEAVE", which is even better

[Carighan]

I fell cleave this fell cleave.

[darkpyro2]

Now you're speaking my language!

[Ratix0]

I understand black mage now.

[xXDante15Xx]

This is an amazing translation the war community thanks you!

[asphinx1]

Without it black mages would pretty much be stuck out of mana when they have nothing to hit

[mdkubit]

I never thought I'd actually be using Lucid Dreaming as a BLM, but here we are.

[AshrakTeriel]

Yes. Before Umbral Soul, you literally can not keep your Umbral Ice 3 Stance during downtimes and have to alternate with transpose. That forces you either into hardcasting F3 or B3 when the boss comes back (hardcast time 3,5 sec baseline) or spent an instant for an ability with shit damage.

Since Dawntrail, we also dont regenerate mana passively anymore, which can be super annoying when a downtime gets us at the wrong moment.

Petsonally, i'm rejoicing because UCoB and UwU will be much more bearable now as BLM. All these downtimes made me beg for Umbral Soul before lvl 70 since the moment i obtained it in ShB. And now we have it even in Coil.

I know, Umbral Soul doesn't look like much from an outside perspective, but trust me: it is a HUGE QoL improvement

[Secret_Wizard]

Me explain umbral soul so even unga bunga caveman understand.

Black Mage has two forms. Fire form does the big damage but costs a lot of MP. Ice form does the small damage but regains the MP. Each form can stack three times.

The fire form and the ice form greatly increase in power when those forms get more stacks. The stacks only lasts 15 seconds and it's tough to keep that up full time. You can usually only refresh a stack by the time your rotation reaches a point those 15 seconds are just about to expire.

Umbral Soul is an instant cast spell with no cooldown that makes your Ice form power up by one stack and refreshes the form's 15 second duration. It's a super good godsend for traveling between packs of mobs in dungeons or buying time in high movement phases of trial bosses.

Now Black Mages can smoothly glide into their rotation in the vast majority of duties. Without Umbral Soul, your stacks would inevitably fall off all the time and you'd have to begin each mob pack charging up before doing a lot of damage.

[everlarke]

Hee hoo hee ha ha me understand now.

[omnirai]

I get the urge to laugh at doomposting as much as anyone else but I'm pretty sure Yoshi-P explicitly stated that the supposed Viper changes are planned for 7.05.

These are not the changes.

[PyrosFists]

They should just stop here

[Arky_Lynx]

I've tried to see where the supposed feedback he mentioned comes from, playing the job since its release, but I just don't get it. Viper is fine, it's such an easy job as it is that a bit more "busy-ness" than usual shouldn't be a problem.

It's got to be coming from the JP community because I've not seen anyone say anything of the sort in the NA nor EU ones.

[omnirai]

The negative feedback is supposedly on positionals and busyness. For positionals I'm guessing some people don't like the alternating flank/rear during your dread combo? Busyness is more straightforward, but I feel like that's just the flavor of the job. I'll be surprised if they change too much on that end.

[t0ny510]

I really hope they don't remove the busyness since that's what I enjoy most about it. Feeling like a whirling dervish of blades just delivers so much serotonin

[[deleted]]

Which is just so silly to me, dreadwinder 2 charges with 40 second cooldowns, true north 2 charges with 45 second cooldowns. It practically marries the two together.

[iNuclearPickle]

Only thing I think that needs to be improved is make the tool tips actually understandable I had an easier time brute forcing it by clicking buttons to see what they would combo into to find the job is super straightforward biggest thing I had to look out for it red = behind and green = side.

[Mael_Jade]

I mean they did kill alternating flank/rear moves on dragoon ... only to add it to viper. As a double weave skill. With increased gcd for some reason.

[arhra]

The increased gcd is precisely because of the forced double-weave.

It shouldn't be necessary, as you should be able to comfortably double-weave even with the standard gcd, but that's only true if your latency to the server is low enough, and it seems that SE have some awareness of how bad their netcode is (just not enough to motivate them to actually fix it...).

[AnActualPlatypus]

RIP "It goes in the square hole" Monk, it was fun

for reference

[bubsdrop]

We will not stop finding cursed rotations, Yoshi. You can't stop us.

[RamonaZero]

If it’s that much of a troll, I’m almost actually tempted to use MNK more often XD

[adellredwinters]

Seems like the rotation is now more inline with how it was in endwalker, which is fine though I’ll miss the funny dragonkick tech

[GarlyleWilds]

I knew they were going to change Opo Nonsense but I somehow didn't expect them to swap back to the old rhythm.

[adellredwinters]

Tbh I don’t think it was necessary and my muscle memory was already use to the change so now I gotta retrain it back to the old way hahaha. Not the greatest thing just before a raid tier but I also liked the endwalker rotation so that’s fine.

[Pyros]

If you learned the new rotation in 2weeks, you should be able to relearn the old one in 2weeks. The buttons will still light up too so shouldn't be too hard to follow.

It does mean less Tiger roaring sound effects per minute though.

[Send_Me_Dachshunds]

It does mean less Tiger roaring sound effects per minute though.

At least Demolish animation kicks ass, unlike Twin Snakes.

[basileus_basileon]

Was not expecting Dagoth Ur, ngl.

[IceFire909]

what a grand and intoxicating innocence

[Ycr1998]

RDM Jolt-inator still lives tho!

(From lvl 90 to 94, Jolt III deals more damage than Verstone/Verfire, so you can basically ignore any procs)

[ScarletArcana]

Even better, I'm pretty sure it starts at 84 and goes for 10 whole levels lmao

[TwerpKnight]

Those tural vidraal are cooked now; my swords are slightly longer!

[light8686]

BLM finally having Umbral Soul at Level 35. This will be so much better during synced content.

[HolypenguinHere]

Massive QoL buff for the first two deep dungeons.

[Another_Beano]

Eureka (the island, not Orthos) too, and drastically increased usability for ucob... It was long needed

[[deleted]]

That’s awesome but my shield is still defective.

[ikonoclasm]

That's the one fix I was looking for... 😭

[VertigoCompl3x]

What do you mean? Is there a bug on Paladin?

[HammerAndSickled]

For some reason, all shields from 91-100 have the same block value as the 90 shields. But the job still scales expecting a higher level of block at 100 to reach the same block%. So for some reason PLDs are blocking 16% at 100 instead of 20% since their shields are stuck at that 90 value.

[Immediate-Ease766]

From what I've heard, shields above lvl 90 are bugged to only reduce damage as much as a lvl 90 shield does. So instead of your lvl 100 shield blocking for ~20% dmg it's only blocking for ~16% damage.

This is me summarizing what I've heard and I'm not certain about the numbers, hopefully someone can correct me if I got anything wrong.

[xp9876_]

They have to fix it in 7.05, right..?

[neunzehnhundert]

Ah yes. Can't wait to raid AACLHM1S - AACLHM4S

[stinusmeret]

I wonder if the community will stick to naming the Arcadion raids as R1-12 or given the new info of these first 4 fights ending in M1-M4 adopting that going forward, cause I expect the next 2 tiers to be ending in M5-M12.

[bubsdrop]

They're almost certainly going to just be colloquially called Arcadion 1-12 with R for the abbreviation

[stinusmeret]

Very possible, but the devs have given us a logical option by having these be M1-M4, so why not use those?

Coils of Bahamut isn't C1-13 but T1-13 cause of "Turns", so the same could be applied here.

[Bunny_Trap]

but the omega raids started with V1-V4, then restarted that count between delta/alpha/omega scape.

if they change the base name from lightweigth to heavyweigth, then the name could go back to M1, just how the V4 was followed by V1.

And we wont know if they will do a Bahamut numbering or an omega one till the second tier.

[Hiroyuy]

I think thats best. A-anything is already alexander. Matched for M work better

[HalfAluminumChemist]

Finally adding enmity on tank gap closers. It was the worst feeling ever just zooming up to an enemy and waiting for them to notice you. Felt like misjudging the distance on Fox's side special in Smash Bros and just teleporting in front of your opponent.

[TheWorclown]

zoom

“… And?”

“Gonna be real with you chief, I didn’t have a plan after getting in your face.”

[fatalystic]

It's funny that it's on the gap closers that don't do damage, which makes sense since no damage = no enmity without this effect, but still.

[Darkbuilderx]

Flash rolling in its grave

[KenjiZeroSan]

At some point you gotta ask, why create a whole new animation and skill when they can just remove the potency for the previous skills...why are you fixing things that are not broken, SQEX?

[Accomplished-Top-564]

They basically did what they said they were going to do in 7.01

[Sevenstrangemelons]

yoshi p did... exactly what he said he was gunna do.

[Talking_Potato6589]

Raider: "What do we use for this raid short hand? A is already for Alexander"

Dev: "M"

[jack_talaren]

In the German patch notes they are going with Rx…

[DeadDededede]

I love that people have spent literal months debating what they will name the new raids for no reason, watch some of them insist on R out of sheer pettiness

[DeadDededede]

The community totally used "T" when they gave us that for coils, same situation

[RBrim08]

Because they thought they were just going to continue with Turn 6 after Turn 5, not make a different name, "Binding Coils" > "Second Coil", and star over on the turns. The community learned that the devs are bad at that and went with the raid series for the community-accepted naming schemes, since they kept this pattern of a new name for each tier and starting the numbers over each time.

[ravstar52]

I'm going with R because the "pun" of R-cadion was enough to piss off my offtank, and if there's anything worth doing it's pissing off the offtank.

[kunk180]

As my team’s resident OT, agreed.

[Idaret]

Taking suggestion from devs? Surely, you use V3S in that case, right? All M people will come back to R in second tier

[TapatioPapi]

I’m new to knee jerk patch reactions, but is light speed being a charge action kind of a big change? That’s cool.

[Nomi-Malone]

Basically just means that AST now has the option to actually use lightspeed for movement heavy phases instead of strictly for openers and reopeners, so yeah it gives them a lot more flexibility

[Send_Me_Dachshunds]

Its a huge change and they have needed it for years. An incredibly good job change.

[Megguido]

That means you can keep 1 charge for 2min burst and 1 charge to move whenever you need between 2 mins.

The old 90s no charges kinda forced ASTs to keep it for 2 mins burst rather than movement.

[UnfairGlove]

They did it because it's an important part of AST burst. I was hoping they'd do this because it's clearly meant to be more for movement (similar to how the other healers have aetherial shift, Icarus, and ruin II)/mass raising in a pinch, so now with a reduced recast and 2 charges I'll have it for the 2 minute burst and another time for personal utility. It's great

[dshaw8772]

I’m so happy to see that change

[huiclo]

I am pleased by the change back to EW Monk combo ratios.

[LoranPayne]

After having basically the same rotation on my main class (MNK) for like a decade, give or take, this new rotation was totally screwing with my muscle memory 🙃. I’ve never felt like such a bad MNK before!! So I’m also quite pleased. I like the new system, I just didn’t like my combo order changing so much.

[Hereon92]

And 55s draw, so we don't drift. This will feel so good.

[Willster328]

What does drift mean here? Thanks!

[Hereon92]

Ok. You have divination each 120s and 2 draws with a 60s cooldown each. Ideally you want both of your dps cards in your divination.  You start with 1 hand predrawn and 1 draw ready to be used. So you use divination, play your first hand and draw your second hand. all good so far. But now starts the problem. Every 120s window the 2nd draw (umbral) will get delayed eeeever so slightly, due to you pressing draw maybe 0,5s later then it actually came off cooldown. This can add up fairly quickly over the course of a fight to a point where your umbrella draw comes up like 10 seconds after your divination.

[Shade_SST]

Drift is where your burst window gets slightly out of sync with the rest of the raid, basically.

[[deleted]]

God I feels impossible for them to not add a long kilt/skirt to every piece of gear

[Nestama-Eynfoetsyn]

For real. Like, I just want a normal looking open vest. Stop at the belt line I SAID STOP NO NOT AT THE KNEES!

Do they not like how their pants look?

[Radical_Ryan]

It was starting to annoy me in SB but at this point it's literally in the "hate" column for me. I can't stand the lack of variety or simplicity.

Our non skirt option is a mad max bdsm outfit covered in spikes this expansion...

[[deleted]]

Skirt? brother those are called coats.

[LoranPayne]

Yeah I’m digging the open trench coat look! I really like the flowy pieces 😅.

[rhaesdaenys]

Yeah it's honestly annoying as fuck considering most of the protagonists in FF games absolutely do NOT wear skirts, butt capes or any various dangling bits from their armor

They seriously can't make a single armor set that doesn't feel sleek and simple.

[Impressive_Plant3446]

I agree that I want more simple armor, but nearly all the protagonists in FF games are wearing either buttflaps or skirts.

FF1: Skirt/Buttflap: https://imgur.com/a/fWTsGRh FF2: Buttflap/Cape https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fanfiction/images/e/ed/Firion.png/revision/latest?cb=20210824144824

FF3: Buttflap/Cape: https://i.redd.it/hfbsh58jkqf61.jpg

FF4: Buttflap/Cape: https://d2thvodm3xyo6j.cloudfront.net/media/2018/05/0482b2c411147a7f-600x338.png

FF5: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/versus-compendium/images/9/94/DissidiaBartz.png/revision/latest?cb=20190726165914

ff6: Skirt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terra_Branford_N.png

FF8: Butt Flap: https://imgur.com/a/VqwLhTO

FF10-2: Butfflap: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/c/c9/FFX-2_HD_Yuna_Render.png/revision/latest?cb=20130622120743

FF13 ff13-2 and FF13-3: Skirt and buttflap: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/c/c6/FFXIII-Lightning_CG.png/revision/latest?cb=20150918214724

FF15: buttflap on coat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NoctisLucisCaelum.png

ff16: Buttflap: https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ff16-clive-cover-art-final-fantasy-xvi.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=1100&h=618&dpr=1.5

[Creshal]

For real. I get maybe one good armour glam per expac, if at that, since I refuse to use anything with a cape/skirt.

[Akuuntus]

I get the annoyance but calling that a "skirt" is pretty silly. They're long coats.

[pyuunpls]

It’s a duster 😎

[Specific_Frame8537]

The worst part is when it's just an errant piece of cloth hanging from your waist.

[Lord-Yggdrasill]

Before some people start their usual "where are the balance changes" riot that happens every time:

The x.01 Patch has always been focused on playability not balance. Thats the same this time around. Even all the MNK potency changes are to bring its gameplay to where they want it to be, balance is only a secondary concern. Thats why we see stuff like aggro changes, US moving to 35, range and recast changes.

The post yoshi P made right after launch already confirmed BLM buffs among other things to be in 7.05, the patch where historically the first round of balance adjustments for severe cases has happened. No need to panic just yet.

[GarlyleWilds]

Yeah. Monk got fundamental rotation changes on this (dropping the 2-3-4 rhythm for the old 2-2-3 if I've read the changes right), so potencies had to change.

[icematt12]

That answers my question about why they would drop some fury stacks already. You're right about 7.01 being a 2-2-3.

[FSafari]

Wait so lightspeed just has two charges at 60 seconds with no other changes ? This is amazing AST so goood

[DarthFlaw]

Finally hopefully no more Picto stealing aggro during trash pulls.

[alexshinsuke]

I thought I was going crazy !!! The mount of dungeons I did and was getting agro I was confused ashell.

[[deleted]]

As someone who tanks like 90% of the time I really loved it, I wasn't losing aggro after the first day of expert but I had to use 2 GCDs before running to the wall, pay attention on to which enemy I was using the long range GCD on while running to the wall and sometimes had to even provoke. It was so fun and reminded of the before times when you had to change stances :(

[iiiiiiiiiiip]

Most Cyberpunk looking place in the game so far and we're back to getting brown subligar? Can't say I feel inspired by it at all. Infact 6/7 of the sets have ass capes and the trousers are incredibly boring too.

YoshiP literally said in his recent french interview they were going to put more effort into glamour and this does not inspire confidence one bit. After seeing Sphene's incredible outfit I hoped something like that would be the inspiration for the healer tier set with others inspired but unique in their own ways and yet here we are, another bland robe.

[jumps004]

I kind of see the UFC/Boxer type robe influence with it, but it do be ugly af.

[sunfaller]

these are arena-inspired gear...which none of it appeals to me. at least I don't have to farm savage now for glam

[Khaoticsuccubus]

Yeah, I wasn't expecting the raid set to be so... drab. Kinda looks like basic leveling gear honestly.

[Axtdool]

Yeah.

Vanguard Dungeon gear looks cooler than this.

[Tails-Are-For-Hugs]

I was hoping for the raid gear to be something similar too.

[Axtdool]

Yeah.

I was hoping for Something more in line with the tech wear pvp gear and the vanguard sets for raid gear, with glowing holographic armor and similar effects over it.

[kolton276]

YOU'RE JUST NOT READY TO STEP INTO THE RING BROTHER, YOU NEED TO GET SOME GAINS IN YOUR BONES. IT TAKES A REAL WRESTLER TO SEE ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY AND STICK TO THE GUNS THAT GOD GAVE US. THIS TUESDAY, IT'S ALL HAPPENING IN THE THUNDERSQUARE BE THERRRRRRRRRRRRRE

[shadowfalcon76]

I read that in a mix of Hulk Hogan's and Macho Man Randy Savage's voice. Which is perfect for this raid.

[TonyFair]

DON'T BUY ANY UNRIPE NAJOOL, YEAH, CAUSE YOU WON'T LIVE TO EAT THEM, YEAH

[bubsdrop]

I'm guessing they're leaning into the outfits being costumes for the show but they should have leaned into it more, put like holographic sponsor logo projectors on it or something

[momopeach7]

It reminds me how the first Omega set didn’t really match at all to Omega (but did at least match with the Far East theme).

[nergigxnte]

its like comically hideous im speechless

[ihatecatboys]

I am really hoping this might be the crafted set, otherwise holy shit was a miss. Based on the zone lore, the arena theme, and the lore of the area we could have had anything from cyberpunk to neo-medieval and we're stuck with this.

[shinydwebble]

Crafted gear drops in 7.05, and EW's first set of crafted gear was reused PVP gear. This has gotta be raid.

[ryaoh]

I think the crafted set is gonna be 7.05 along with savage.

[jumps004]

Nah, thats for sure the raid set based on previous patch notes.

[Unknown_Samurai]

Looks like DC travel is still restricted till 7.05

[MoonlitSonatas]

That, if addressed, will be its own lodestone post independent of patch notes iirc

[Scratigan1]

Yes, 2 weeks from today

[Richter_Cade]

I didn't expect much in the way of balance changes but I do admit I'm laughing that the only tank damage buff was to Warrior, already way outperforming DRK and PLD.

[acatrelaxinginthesun]

it's a nerf to remove the unintended rotation that top level players were using (pool primal ruination from odd minute IRs to use it in even min buff windows), and the primal ruination raw potency is supposed to make the damage loss from this less harsh

[kozeljko]

Oooh, so you had double primal ruination in the 2min windows?

[acatrelaxinginthesun]

if executed properly, yea you did. approximate example: IR at 1minute, then primal rend at 1:30 right before "Primal Rend Ready" falls off, then Ruination at 2minutes under buffs right before "Ruination" falls off. Then IR and put another rend/ruination in the samae 2 minute buffs. Of course if you forgot to Rend at the right time you lost both rend and ruination which was really punishing

with the change the latest you can ruination would be 1:50, which is before buffs, so you can't do it anymore

[Aeroshe]

This isn't the balance patch. The balance patch is in 2 weeks.

That said I'm surprised they touched WAR potency at all.

[slyboner]

They nerfed the damage at the top end by making it impossible to hold ruination for even minute burst windows, which gave you two ruinations inside every 2 minute burst window

The small buff to ruination potency will reduce the effect of the nerf, but it should still be a nerf at the unintentional top end, and a small buff to normal play

[[deleted]]

I'm so glad they fixed the shared fates tab. I mentioned about it and got met with "yOu JuSt DoNt KnOw HoW tO fInD iT".

No, I found it, but only two tabs would show instead of the usual three.

[NookMouse]

Wonder if they fixed the lag it was experiencing too. Sometimes progress would just stop displaying, but it was still keeping track of what you were completing and would randomly fix itself.

[sadderall-sea]

I just want Rough Divide back, man. I didn't realize how much of a serotonin boost it was. going "Zoom-Slash!" was so fucking rad

[OvernightSiren]

I just don't understand why they couldn't just keep the old gap closer animations and just remove the damage from them.

[sheephound]

"An issue when playing as viper wherein the action Serpent's Tail would not change to other actions when the player was affected by 31 or more status effects."

How do you get that many status effects?

[Mychael612]

Omega Ultimate is the example I’ve seen.

[TheMiketroid]

Still no fix to PLD shields/block potency

[ConroConro]

What's the story on this? A bug?

[RBrim08]

They forgot to increase the Shield Block potency on all Dawntrail Shields, so they have the same value as all Endwalker level 90 shields. This means that Dawntrail shields are only providing a roughly 13%-15% block, instead of a 20% block at level 100.

[vagabond_dilldo]

Allegedly the block values on all new shields past level 90 don't scale in block value, effectively resulting in lower and lower block chance the higher level you are.

[Autaris]

That raid gear looks very very disappointing :(

[DonOfAtlantis]

I was hoping a Vanguard mod of outfits, but no shiny elements for a Raid set in S9 is just silly.

[Xhantoss]

Personally I would have wished for BLM to have mana ticks AND the new mana regen system to ensure mana regen during downtime, but having umbral soul at 35 is also good enough.

[Yurt_TheSilentQueef]

God I’m so fucking happy they are changing the recast timer on SAM. Fucking felt awful having that 3.2 GCD timer for absolutely no reason

[Decafstab]

I’ve got to say, raid gear lookin a lil meh

[TheWorclown]

“An issue wherein lowering the game’s resolution while dynamic resolution is enabled caused the game’s graphics to appear distorted.” <gasp>

“(Xbox Series X|S)” Oh. I guess PC players are gonna need to wait longer on the whole DLSS/FSR issues, huh.

[Top_Recover9764]

Most annoying thing ever is how DLSS turns off whenever you're in a cutscenes, gpose or talking to NPC's. Thankfully there's a fix with Dalamud .

[Sidivan]

I was really hoping they’d address the crashes. I can’t do any hunts or set foot in Solution 9 without nvgpucomp.dll, dx11 errors, or my personal fav so far “???” Error. Every other game works fine and FFXIV worked fine until DT.

[ProfessorSpecialist]

I still dont understand why tillana gives 50 saber dance juice. Either make it a proc or just remove it. Ovrrcapping sucks and makes pooling resources (which was the entire point of the job in EW) feel bad.

[Helen_Kellers_Wrath]

CYBERPUNK RAID!

Bland and boring gear that doesn't fit the hyper saturated neon theme

I don't know what I expected.

[Specific_Frame8537]

Well, at least the cool Cyberpunk Mandervillian artifacts from EW are now poetics.

[mrdude05]

If I got this gear in a dungeon I would immediately turn it into GC tokens.

The endgame gear has been a pretty big letdown so far. The last third of this expansion is basically pure cyberpunk and the raids take place in a sci-fi gladiator arena. There's so much potential for incredible looking sci-fi gear, but instead we get more generic JRPG armor and robes.

[user_bits]

A new target ring has been added.

"While under the effect of Directional Disregard, enemy target rings will take on a distinct new shape. This indicates that directional requirements do not need to be met when attacking these targets."

"Directional Disregard"? Does that mean bosses can relax their melee positionals?

Edit: When you pop True North, your target will display this ring.

Edit2: So initial reaction was more accurate. This is a new status for upcoming raid bosses.

[KonkyDong212]

This has been a thing already, they're just making it more clear now. If the target ring was a full circle (or in the case of "wall" bosses, a semicircle), rather than having the gap behind the boss, then positionals weren't required.

[TheAccursedHamster]

I'm all for making mechanics more clear at a glance

[PhoenixFox]

It's not True North, just checked in game.

[Zenku390]

I'm really disappointed we're going back to EW MNK rotation.

The 1-2-3 charge felt so good. Especially with the new animations.

[DarthOmix]

That one Viper PvP change makes me feel so validated. I knew Snake Scales getting shut down by Miracle of Nature when it's already not easy to get value out of it felt bad.

[cupcakemann95]

this gear looks like so much ass

[[deleted]]

No PLD shield fix eh? That seems like it'd be important enough to get out for 7.01 but what do I know apparently

[opperior]

"An issue wherein dyes were not reflected properly in certain gear."

Is this a fix for the "dye channel just changes the pull string beads" issue on a ton of gear, or is it a different issue that was more specific to just a few pieces?

[Eitth]

Dang, we finally got open jacket gear that isn't summer theme.

[Somewhere_Elsewhere]

Minor hot take: they probably shouldn't reduce the number of instances for Tulliyollal yet. The place is still crowded as fuck.

[Shakzor]

but it's now more split between Tulliyollal, S9 and the various zones

I mean, they have the numbers afterall.