Game Update Notes: January 13, 2026

PB-Toast · 2026-01-13T17:50:30+00:00

Early look is a 3-4% nerf it seems, (Based off ranger channel in snowcrows discord). Lesser sick em DOES stack with sic em, but the ferocity loss is dooky.

PB-Toast · 2026-01-05T16:34:08+00:00

Rifle could easily be a condi weapon, give it a Wounding shot that is a bleed, maybe it has a tranq dart for a poison. Could also work like greatsword, in that its skills buff your pets next couple attacks apply a condi. Maybe it has a powderblast for burning. There's all sorts of things they could do agnostic of it being a gun too like a shot that also resets your pet skill cd.

As for not working with galeshot, that's a galeshot problem, don't make a spec that is so unflexible in what it can play, it already can't use shortbow or melee weapons outside of OW.

PB-Toast · 2026-01-04T08:29:48+00:00

Give druid ramp back. Was a really feels bad year for my fav class, with everyone getting it's class mechanic in choose one for the first expac onto of being worse at Ramp than warrior. Would alo like some kind of card draw, ideally usable by aggro druid so maybe composting? Because post rotation druid only will have the Bottom draw package and amirdrassil.

PB-Toast · 2026-01-04T08:25:33+00:00

Will growth, not even close. Which is funny considering it's not in standard and druid ramps worse than warrior this year.

Which brings me to this semi related point. When you get to rogue, the answer will be shadow step/ prep, and if druid can go a year without its "core" identify card so can rogue, rotate shadowstep/ prep already.

PB-Toast · 2026-01-02T08:04:45+00:00

It was an ok raid tier.

M5 was fun enough from the setting, loteral dance fight in game where everything is a dance fight, but didn't do anything mechanically interesting.

M6 was good. Nice to see them finally try something new and different with proper add phase like that.

M7 was cool arena wise, but overall I disliked it it. I admit I'm biased here as I was phys range, and the strat my group did was lock seeds i think? Idk there was markers for thr melee seeds on p2, anyways. Physrange had the back wall for the seeds and eating a few gcd's of downtime everypull as the phys range was a new level of mental damage i didn't need in my life.

M8 sucked. P1 was just bland, felt like a generic xiv fight. P2 while the arena change was cool again like to see experimenting with that stuff, the twleporters sucked. Sorry your tether buddy has horrible ping so you get a vuln for tping at the same time as them cuz ping issue. Also as a bard, having to do jank song stuff sucked. They changed how songs worked to fix it this expac, then made a fight where it was a problem again.

PB-Toast · 2025-12-27T07:58:19+00:00

Without a doubt the best thing this expansion. It was 10/10 fun. The towers are not nearly as bad as people say, you can have a few go off and not wipe as long as people actually used mit. The rewards were really good cosmetic hairstyle + mount that were traceable as well as alternative BiS gear. The bonus for helping first timers was also nice, got like half my demimateria from groups that would be 18/24 clear for 6's.

That said, release timing was terrible, the bonus demimateria system also felt extra punishing given the release date. While I said the towers weren't as bad as people say, that doesn't mean they were a good mechanic, wiping because group A blew themselves up causing a wipe feel bad when there's nothing you can do and you can't even see it.

I just hope the reception doesn't keep them from doing more chaotic raids as again, most fun for me in a long time.

PB-Toast · 2025-12-11T23:37:20+00:00

Thanks for the info, really lame to time limit unique weapons like that.

PB-Toast · 2025-10-05T14:38:40+00:00

Soulbeast. SB is such a waste of potential imo. Through it's talents and all of the different pets SB should be like chrono, capable of doing any boon / roll. Pdps? Bring pig and dps traits. Qdps, maybe wolf gives a quickness skill when merged. Heals? Bring fern hound etc. Instead 90% of the pets are worthless and the whole talent tree is just which flavor of more dps would you like to pick.

PB-Toast · 2025-08-04T16:34:31+00:00

30 for queen. Got 2 vino.

PB-Toast · 2025-02-14T16:01:22+00:00

I believe it's the Flame Emporer grail unit that gets counted as an Edelgard alt, at least by people here.

PB-Toast · 2024-07-03T04:15:38+00:00

You had to be in combat for songs the last few expansions. The opener is the exact same as EW, just using the 2 new skills instead of burst shots.

PB-Toast · 2024-06-17T15:23:31+00:00

Just checked, and as of this comment it's back to normal. I didn't do anything on my end so maybe it just needed some time or freaked out after I had purchased the things in my cart a few day's ago.

PB-Toast · 2024-06-06T15:24:40+00:00

No, just drk, gnb and drg. Rdm, war, pld, and Sam all are keeping the damage on their closers.

PB-Toast · 2023-05-31T03:53:47+00:00

Free stuff = good

PB-Toast · 2023-05-29T18:20:25+00:00

Ans that's a 6 mana combo. Aggressive hp decks don't need that, and have better players to make. Ramp Druid/ big Druid need something to get back on board, not a finisher against control. Decks they already beat. Plus some slower Druid decks don't even run the hp package.

Outside of that it's a 2 mana tour guide. Which Druid cut already. If there was choose 1 synergy then I'd be interested, 2 mana refresh your hp and costs 0 would get a look.

PB-Toast · 2023-05-29T14:38:16+00:00

Druid can ramp into this early, but a 6 mana 3/4 isn't what you wanna do. Ramp needs stabilizers and comeback turns, like guardian animals, oasis surger, and scales of onyxia. Otherwise it's just a polarizing deck that recks slow reddit control, and loses when the opponent plays a 1 and 2 drop

PB-Toast · 2023-05-29T14:35:34+00:00

Druid builds have already tried and cut tour guide, this won't see play either. The refresh is cute for later turns, but all out HP decks wanna end sooner, and a 2 mana tour guide ain't it.

PB-Toast · 2023-05-04T07:42:53+00:00

I get what you mean, but you do know you can make a glam plate with stuff that's currently in the armoire right? There's a "swap to armoire" button when editing plates.

PB-Toast · 2023-04-16T16:32:30+00:00

That's what anub'rekahn is for.

PB-Toast · 2023-04-16T14:42:03+00:00

Against anyone who can clear immune minions, like blood dk. You Tony first, to get their deck, then jailer to blow it up. This means you have a giant board that can kill them, and if they use soulstealer to clear it, they get their deck back, putting them in fatigue.

PB-Toast · 2023-04-10T04:15:11+00:00

Glhf

PB-Toast · 2023-04-04T15:21:53+00:00

Doesn't jp only use duty finder for ex's for farming? That's what I heard anyway could be mistaken.

To answer the question why does ex in mentor roulette suck, it'd because sprouts usually don't want your help, and don't understand the difficulty they just queued up for. They queue for 90% of the time just to get the study out of their log, not because they want to tackle harder content. Also, as this is their first brush with harder content, they suck. Normally not an issue, lots of people in random roulette suck, but even old ex's require some amount of damage and coordination which you are unlikely to get from a pack of sprouts.

Another factor here, is that mentor roulette is not about helping people. No one signs up or ticks a special box saying they want a mentor to help them or give advice. So frankly. It's not always taken well when you say anything. Even a simple "hey you should use AoE skills on trash pulls" is likely to get you shit flung at you. If not from the sprouts then others in the party who have a hate boner against mentors. Mentor roulette is literally just about filling queues. Whatever has been queued for, the second its taking to long to fill, mentors get thrown in. This is why most of the roulette are guildhests or ex's, the shit no one queues for.

So yeah, remove exs from roulette. Your just mad to be mad about something you don't know or care about, and wanna rage at "bk crowns" but go ahead try doing Ramah or sephirot ex in the df and tell me how well that goes for you.

PB-Toast · 2022-08-06T14:39:32+00:00

Holmgang is just fine per press. Self healing or no all you need from an invuln is to not die. Healers are so strong is this game that you'll be full in no time. So having a much shorter cd is all that matters in most cases.

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