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A community for fans of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, which has a free trial that includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn, the award-winning Heavensward and Stormblood expansion up to level 70 with no restrictions on playtime. FFXIV's newest expansion, Dawntrail, is out now.

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Live letter 79 summary (Patch 6.5 info) (novacrystallis.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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! 🎉

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.