Dev Tracker - Discussion

Probably implementing code changes for race swap. Adding revamped instances of Limbus. New HTBF?

Totally forgot about race change. That would probably take more than a minute to implement.

i thought race swap was just an April fools joke
maybe i will swap to Galka and change my name to
Banana Hammock

New intern

The length of time the server is offline is most likely not correlated to new development. The patch should be completed prior to the update, a longer maintenance would indicate a need to do upkeep tasks. Perhaps they are reconfiguring or adding instance servers to increase performance, performing physical maintenance on server hardware, or altering their virtualization environment. These are the sort of things that would need to be done while the server is offline, any changes to existing zones and content can be done and tested ahead of time. Most of them will not be perceivable to the end user.

The most optimistic outlook is that they are creating or testing an interface for the eventual race change or other purchasable content; the need to test an interface between the game server and web server would explain a longer downtime. I wouldn't expect the actual feature to be released; it is just a step in the process.

-Buzz Killington

They need to add purchasable Story skips like ff14 does. that would bring in alot of money and new players. I forsure would make another 2 alts.

New expansion confirmed.
3 new jobs: Viking, Naeglingmaster and Swordfighter. They can only equip one weapon period.
Expansion will be to the island where it's all male mithras and the only NPC will be Nynja saying "DEI Characters" repeatedly until Nickeny beats Bumba and then fireworks go off like it's Sunbreeze 2.0

What no timemage or alchemist? not my ffxi!
Fujito ruins everything!

Too many drugs.

It's called enternity and fastcs.

Or... not enough. The countdown is on, 11 more days and then off til the 6th

that is not even remotely the same to literally skipping the entire story lol. even with all the hacks and addons, doing all story missions is beyond 50hrs of work.

Stop getting banned and you wont have to redo missions lol

who? never been banned even once lol
who even gets banned anymore

I just would like to another alt or 2 but I despise redoing story missions iv already done twice now.

Hang on to your butts. The official website update notice says they are actually touching the equipment.

I'm just imagining everything covered in cobwebs

SE find it’s XI server while caring for its chocobo!!!

I know this opinion isn’t gonna sit well with the multi-box crowd. They’ve worked hard on their alts to tackle content effectively and fill those gaps in their groups.

BUT—hear me out. Personally, I’d love for Square Enix to let us customize three Trusts. Picture this:

Sylvie as a Custom-Trust:

Geomancy potency +5 (cap).

Let us pick her spells, swapping them out like Blue Magic. Equip her with special gear that counts as "Pet Stats" or "Trust LV+1".

For a BRD Trust, cap it at three songs with Song Potency +4. Basic instruments wouldn’t grant access to stuff like Honor March—makes sense, right?

For a COR Trust, give Phantom Roll Potency +4.

For RDM Trusts like King of Hearts or Koru, make them cast Haste II without question.

WHM Trusts? Force them to use Regen IV and cap their highest Cure at V—ditch Cure VI to save MP efficiency.

PLD Trusts? Add +50 enmity, make them use Flash, Provoke, Majesty, and Atonement.

Now, Trusts wouldn’t outright replace players, but this would be a massive nerf to multi-boxers. Imagine having a party with GEO +5, BRD +4, COR +4 (potency), plus smarter RDM, WHM, and Tank Trusts.

I get why multi-boxers might hate this—it’s like giving everyone access to decent "Free-Tri-Boxing" setups.

Give players even more reason to play a MMO solo, wonderful.

Trust fixes are much simpler than that.

Just remove haste 1 entirely. (at 99)
Remove aoe entirely from rdm and whm.
Only sing march/minuet.
Only use Indi-Haste/Frailty.
Never cast flurry.

99% of trust problems are solved and they're not better than a player.
(I ignored Qultada because evokers roll has uses and interrupting skillchains is the price you pay for using trusts)

IDK if I qualify for the "multi-boxer" tag you're referring to but I'm not at all opposed to any of the updates you suggest to trusts.

Minor point here but KoH already will do Haste 2 extremely consistently, basically robotically (lul)

I've mentioned it in 100 threads already, but I'm still amazed by people who insist on playing this game solo though. I get wanting to have better trusts for stuff like magian trials, CP, or other really trivial content, but there are a lot of complaints about (what I would consider) group content sucking with trusts...

For me, group content includes:
Ambuscade, Dynamis [D], Gaes Fete (past a certain point), Master Trials, Ody, Omen, Sortie, Vagary, UNM (past a certain point), some HTBF

I think pretty much everything else is solo content. It could be done with a group, but it's not really necessary and I primarily do it solo. This includes old dyna, salvage, anything in abyssea, magian trials, CP, EP, crafting, voidwatch, REMA stuff, etc.

I think it would be great if trusts worked a bit better and/or were a bit more potent, to allow players to have an easier time soloing the trivial stuff, including CP/EP. I don't think you'll get a complaint from most people about trusts being good enough to do solo *** a little bit faster.

Once you start talking about adjusting content (or trusts) to allow solo players with trusts to be able to do what I categorized as "group content" better, you've totally lost me. Those things are designed to be done with a group. You can still make (some) progress solo, but it's not supposed to be comparable to doing it with a group. This isn't a single-player game and, despite the fact that many people insist on treating it that way, it's very hostile to strictly solo players. If you're having trouble clearing content with trusts, it's not because trusts aren't good enough, it's because the content you're trying to do isn't designed to be completed solo with trusts. It's supposed to force you to talk to other human beings.

You can customize 1 mount: chocobo.
you should be able to customize one trust: [Adventuring Fellow].
You can already trade certain gear for stylistic reasons and to change its weapon and armor type.
It'd take a bit of development to pull off, but the basics already exist. Open up more variety, maybe allow the AF to copy jobs and AI of a desired trust, and trade any legendary weapon for your trust to use it. (like cosmetic gear, you still keep the original)

You'd have to spend time in town re-customizing your trust when you want to change it and for the really good effects you still have to go make that ultimate weapon for it. You would also need to actually obtain the trust you want to copy the AI from.

Best part of the update

a bit over 20 days left in 2024, I'm going for hater of the year award.

Race you to it.

I would like to clarify, for the record, that the above post is not a joke. That's the actual patch notes.

So you can now summon trusts in the Astral Candescence retrieval fights that nobody's probably done for a decade, I guess they're planning on us actually being able to lose Besieged eventually, hope to see the higher levels sooner than later after a month off this month

Tyratunn couldn't give any less of a damn about this game...

Oh, is that what those are? I thought it was the newly-added ones to fight the kings for the titles for Mythic. Hell yeah I can get those titles someday!