The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

[Callisto]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Pretty happy with my decision to quit last month after seeing everything that's come of today. Like I expected, like 85% of my count was completely obsoleted in one patch despite me having a pretty high-end character with 6 years of time and effort put into it.

I do feel odd reading update notes knowing that I won't actually see any of the stuff, these days used to be like Christmas morning for me. This is also the first update since I became a BG mod so I actually have to read through loads and loads of crap, busy day despite not having the same personal interest in the actual content.

[cidbahamut]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

And lucky me when I capped SAM EXP in that merit PT yesterday I racked up about 4 merits ^^ so I'm good to go. Just pop maat's cap and I'm all set.

Now if I could just get the damn update to download...

Ha! That'll teach you to be prepared.

[Karinya]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

And lucky me when I capped SAM EXP in that merit PT yesterday I racked up about 4 merits ^^ so I'm good to go. Just pop maat's cap and I'm all set.

For a second I thought "You need Maat's Cap?! Brutal!"

But then my brain caught up.

Would have been funny as hell though (although I probably would have unsubscribed, no time to level 12 more maat's cap jobs before participating in anything post-75).

Also, I second the idea about WoE, that it better have some way to tell how much is left if you're going to use up an item you can only recover once per vana'diel day (not to mention the mention of paying for it, I wonder what you use for payment, AN?) Something like "Time remaining: 12 min. Enemies remaining: 7. Enter? (Y/N)" -- because the time alone isn't reliable if a large group can take down all the enemies in substantially less than the maximum time.


P.S. Insert obligatory whine about how everyone else isn't allowed to step on SMN's toes with Hastega. (Including me twice over, as RDM/SCH and SCH/WHM, but w/e. RDM got by fine with single casting Haste and SCH didn't even have it at all.) They didn't mention Refresh, but there's rarely more than 2-3 refresh users anyway (counting the RDM, who is only part of the cycle 1/3 of the time with Composure up) so I doubt it would see much use outside of event parties like BLMx4, COR, RDM/SCH. (Eventually SCH/RDM)

[ShadowHolyFlyingDragon]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Well, I can get my foot in the door, I just can't open it. Connection fails after downloading the .exe patch file. You'd think they would have made this easier after 8 years. If they can get off their butt to chance the splash screens, surely they could do something about the connectivity.

Oh Well! I'm going to go watch baseball..

[Feba]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

You'd think they would have made this easier after 8 years.

If they didn't fix their shit in the first couple years, why bother now? Clearly people will tolerate it.

[MrMageo]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Im just glad I was done work early today so I could camp the check version button. Now if only mait would finish.

[Truece]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

RDM got by fine with single casting Haste and SCH didn't even have it at all.) They didn't mention Refresh...

Something tells me that we'll see the same thing when the level cap gets raised past 80:

The white magic spell Refresh will not work with the Scholar ability Accession.

[MrMageo]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

I dunno refresh is hardly as universally useful as haste is. I also have a feeling that it comes down to the fact haste ca be casted outside of a party. Either way its not that big of a deal. (also i have a feeling that SE wants SMN to have some sort of identity still in the sense that they have had hastega forever.)

[Raydeus]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Accession Refresh isn't something I'd worry about. But in that case I'd expect to see both Refresh II and Ballad 3 implemented as well.

[Malacite]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

The white magic spell Refresh will not work with the Scholar ability Accession.

Seeing as RDM can already do this as of the update, they likely would have mentioned it in the notes (unless it's coming in an emergency update)

[Aksannyi]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Pretty happy with my decision to quit

Ditto. Nothing I've seen really jumps out at me.

I would laugh so hard if everyone logged in and there was a System Message that said something like, "After several months of leading you on to believe that we'd be increasing the cap, we're totally not. WE DUN TROLL'D Y'ALL!!!1one!!!1"

Cause that would be the most hilarious and epic shit ever.

[BurningPanther]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Ditto. Nothing I've seen really jumps out at me.

I would laugh so hard if everyone logged in and there was a System Message that said something like, "After several months of leading you on to believe that we'd be increasing the cap, we're totally not. WE DUN TROLL'D Y'ALL!!!1one!!!1"

Cause that would be the most hilarious and epic shit ever.

Woulda made for an awesome April fools prank, that's for sure.

[Truece]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

44,500 xp needed to get to level 77. Not too bad...

Much better than the additional 2k needed each level to go from 70 -> 75

[Callisto]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Ditto. Nothing I've seen really jumps out at me.

I would laugh so hard if everyone logged in and there was a System Message that said something like, "After several months of leading you on to believe that we'd be increasing the cap, we're totally not. WE DUN TROLL'D Y'ALL!!!1one!!!1"

Cause that would be the most hilarious and epic shit ever.

A lot of stuff jumped out at me, but more in the sense of "Oh hey, that's some nice, rare, expensive stuff you have, too bad we just trashed all of it with stuff that blows it away, oh and go level your subjobs again."

[Aksannyi]

Re: The Version Update Has Arrived! (06/21/2010)

Haha, pretty much. I was so happy with where my WHM and RDM were (and hell, even my BLM and SMN were quite good, just needed more) when I quit, and had no desire to improve them further, save for some salvage crap that just wouldn't drop.

And seriously I swore off NIN at 37. There was no way in hell I was touching that job for another 12 levels, no fucking way.