Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter 79 Summary; Patch 6.5 Part 1 launches October 3 - Nova Crystallis
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In the 79th Letter from the Producer Live broadcast, Final Fantasy XIV director/producer Naoki Yoshida and global community manager Toshio Murouchi shared another round of information covering the upcoming Patch 6.5 Part 1 content during this year’s Tokyo Game Show festivities. First and foremost, we now know this patch will release on October 3 and bring with it the […]

Nothing much to say here. Of course nothing about 7.0 yet or job spoilers or anything, that’ll probably happen closer to the end of the year.

One interesting tidbit is that they are experimenting with cloud server architecture soon, which should hopefully make DC-transfers far faster.

Also, while much of this is exactly as expected, finally scaling alliance raid rewards to the level and length is huge! People intellionally taking items off to force Syrkus Tower might soon be over! Finally! 🎉

  • Carighan MaconarOP
    1•1 year ago

    I often feel they just need an extra line of code that once the 24 people for an alliance raid are locked in, the system tries to assign them to the three groups as “never the same job twice in a group” as it can.

    That can’t fully solve it, but it would help in the vast majority of cases.

    • @garretbleEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      If the healers are categorized as “shield” type and “pure” type or whatever, they should just have it so a raid has just one slot for each.

      And that may be easier say than to do, but I thought a couple years ago they really talked up the fact that they had the ability to do this. And then I’ve basically never seen it.

        • @garretbleEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I was talking about this with some friends recently. We were doing raids to get tomes last week and after the second time of being matched with another Scholar I started up the conversation.

          Anyway, one of them said they thought that the Extremes only had that special matchmaking. But I don’t remember them ever saying that. When they broke the healers off into the two types I really thought they made a big deal of it being a big new feature. If it was just for Extremes and other really high end content, then 90% of the player base isn’t getting it.

          And maybe the excuse is that it makes the queue times faster, but it’s not like I only see Scholars in the alliance raids. The other parties always have a variety of healers, but somehow I’m almost always matched up with another of my type. I’d rather wait an extra minute or two just so I don’t have to worry about ever over-writing someone else’s shields or making sure I don’t cast Chain Strategem over the other’s.