Patch 2.16 (Feb. 22nd) and Patch 2.2 SummaryFollow

Patch 2.16 and Patch 2.2 content summary from Nova Crystallis



Patch 2.16 is set to include:

Summoning Bell in Revenant’s Toll
New Features for the Market Boards (Wish List feature, and adjustments on the filters)
Ability to summon minions and mounts at random
Dhorme Chimera and Hydra being added to the Duty Finder
Gear sets will automatically substitute main arm when item is not available
Cooldown timer for timeworn maps to be displayed or adjusted (not clarified)
Crafting stats will affect quick synthesis success rate
Gear dying preview feature
Notification feature for Party Finder
Mog Letter history
New achievement rewards
New feature to reselect focus targets (i.e. Primals after they disappear for certain attacks)
Map marker feature
More action icons for macros
New command to have character look towards the Camera
Characters will appear wet during rainy weather
Potential targets will have a glowing outline when hovering the mouse over them

Currently, the content set for Patch 2.2 (March) is as follows:

Leviathan Primal Battle (Hard and Extreme Modes)
The Amdapor Township Dungeon
The Binding Coil of Bahamut Extension
Thornmarch Extreme Mode
Brayflox’s Longstop Hard Mode
Halatali Hard Mode
New Daily Beast Tribe Quests (Kobold and Sahagin)
New Hildibrand storyline
New Allagan Tomestone types
Glamours Vanity System named Mirage Prism
New advanced crafting recipes
New fishing challenges
New Aesthetician hairstyles

Maybe this will payoff for all the time I spent melding out each AF ><

If I were to guess, I'd say there's going to be some new craftable iLvl 80-90ish gear. Since they are adding new tomestones, there's probably going to be new sets in the 100s to farm in the new endgame areas they're adding.

This depends on if the new recipes still require the same/old crafting caps or if they make the new recipes higher. That alone is the reason why I did not try to make an all-in-one set.

Yeah, but with weaver 50 I can make my own bridge gear for each job if I need to.

My guess is we will get recipes for more easily obtained level 70 gear. That will help players vault into endgame content without needing to spam AK and WP... Though those dungeons will still have their places in roulette. We will see.

I don't think this will be the case at all. I think you'll need better stats, maybe some melds, at worst case people who did it all with Patrician's might be in trouble. I expect the new crafter AF will be part of the expansion, not a patch 6 months in.

Probably exactly what will happen since they cant make crafting viable, ever.

What would be the point of making more ilvl70 gear (from new materials), when;

1) The old gear can be made for less than 20k if you buy materials, or free if you farm them up.
2) New materials will cost hundreds of thousands of gil, for no apparent stat advantages on the new gear since it would be ilvl70 too.
3) Completely disregarding that you can farm up a complete set of Ilvl.70 gear for free with just a few hours total of work due to 300 from one Duty Roulette, 200 tomes from a 20 minute CT and 100 from just spamming the usual suspects.
4) and most importantly, everyone should/could already have at the very least half a set of ilvl90 gear simply from Myths alone. And ilvl80 from CT.

Crafting ilvl70 isnt going to make anyone happy anymore. And even freshly dinged 50's can farm up the Philo's for a free set without effort. Easier than they can farm up the 60k the current crafted pieces cost individually, or the 3-400k the new pieces will go for in the first month.

SE could "fix" crafting even a tiny little bit by making us able to craft ilvl90 stuff at the very least, but even that wont solve the price crashes on the materials or the faulty completely visible transactions Market Board that they chose to use for XIV 2.0.

Edited, Jan 29th 2014 5:09pm by KojiroSoma

Looking that way ><

It's PS4 release in Japan, and beta here. Maybe their Saturdays are like our Tuesdays for new release stuff.

Edited, Jan 29th 2014 8:30am by LebargeX

Still amusing to this day that, according to Tanaka, while 1.0's engine was supposedly superior it apparently couldn't do this little thing that's kinda existed in every MMO I've known (including FFXI).

I love ARR, but really wish I had stuck with it and played throughout 1.0 even if just so my appreciation for ARR would have been even better.

Finally, I don't have to chose between fast spiritbonding, and getting HQs off trivial synths. (At least, I hope that's how it works.)


My WHM loves this. The focus target makes an enormous difference to checking enemy debuffs and abilities while I'm targetting the tank, and while I usually use <mo> by hovering over the party list, this will make healing random people (e.g. non-party players amd NPCs) much more reliable.


I crave this every time I want to mark fishing holes I can't access yet.


I play a miqo'te, so I am both looking forward to this and dreading it.

I would rather it instantly quick synth at the current success rate. AKA i tell it to make 100 dew threads and BOOM done, cause i can do careful syntheis 2 spaming for 2x the exp and 100% success rate if i want to, so even with this change you still get less exp, slightly higher success rate then previouslly but still not the 100% you would have manually, and it still takes just as long.

Aww, no more crafting mats in the FC house hot tub. Oh well, maybe there won't be as many fails. Since SE is going to force us to use our full crafting gearset while quick synthing, hopefully they'll reduce the amount of gear wear.