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Changes to Turn 2

All boss encounters in FFXIV use what we internally refer to as a monitoring program and gambit algorithms to dictate their behavior.

The monitoring program takes the following factors into account for every encounter:
The number of participating players
The HP and enmity level of all participating players
The HP of the boss enemy
The boss enemy's target
Time elapsed since the beginning of the encounter

By monitoring these factors, bosses are able to transition from one phase to the next, and activate certain abilities such as Titan's Upheaval or the fully charged ADS in Turn 2 of the Binding Coil.

However there was a latent bug (albeit a rarely occurring one) that can potentially cause conditions of the instance to reset based on the monitored player count, causing the boss to disappear and respawn.

This bug fix was implemented under the assumption that it would have no effect on Turn 2 when completed in the manner it was designed. However, the popular strategy used to bypass Allagan Rot involves players attacking the ADS after the program has completed monitoring boss behavior. As a result, attack frequency as determined by player count has changed from its pre-2.16 functionality.

Although the development team has no problem with the strategy used to bypass Allagan Rot, this bug fix inadvertently affected players' ability to employ said strategy.

Because the reason for this bug fix was to address an issue with a very miniscule chance of being triggered, we will revert the monitoring program back to its 2.15 functionality, and have our QA team confirm this revision.

Somehow, I dunno how, it has taken me 5 hours to wash and wax our car. Didn't take a bunch of breaks or anything either.