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! 🎉
I wish they’d fix the thing (or do the thing) where raids would only bring in healers of different types. Generally, I know it’s not that important, but I always seem to get paired up with the same healer job. As a Scholar there’s a 90% chance I’m paired up with another Scholar. (In the good old days that was fine because someone could be the “healing” one and the other the “buffing” one, but alas.)
I often feel they just need an extra line of code that once the 24 people for an alliance raid are locked in, the system tries to assign them to the three groups as “never the same job twice in a group” as it can.
That can’t fully solve it, but it would help in the vast majority of cases.
If the healers are categorized as “shield” type and “pure” type or whatever, they should just have it so a raid has just one slot for each.
And that may be easier say than to do, but I thought a couple years ago they really talked up the fact that they had the ability to do this. And then I’ve basically never seen it.
I’m almost certain I remember them saying this was going to be a thing too, but I’m routinely put with other shield healers.
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.
Yeah it’s boring but it isn’t a big deal either. I think being able to queue as multiple jobs would be a more interesting and useful feature and would probably help with this sort of issue.
