#patch 3.55b

[freshorenjuice]

DIADEM MASTERPOST

(from your local sky pirate)

Trials of the Fury - ilvl 220 is required for entry, lvl 60. This is the version of Diadem strictly for Disciples of War/Magic.

Trials of the Matron - ilvl 179 is required for entry, lvl 60. This is the version of Diadem for Gatherers, but a endgame PvE class is required for entry. 

Both trials are accessed with a Mission Ceruleum Voucher, attainable from Jaquoinie, the Mission Quartermaster located at the Airship Landing, near the Astrologian’s Guild aetheryte in Ishgard. 

While I haven’t done Trial of the Matron, Trials of the Fury is done as follows: 

Missions Objectives > Fate Grinding for Loot > Praying for Emergency Mission to spawn. 3 Mission Objectives are given to the queued party upon spawn, marked by orange circles upon the map and are very specific fates or quest mobs that you have to kill to progress your group’s rating. Completing all of them will put you a percentage of completion and reward you with Loot when they are all done. Afterwards, you will be left alone in Diadem with your group with no clear objective. DO NOT DROP PARTY! You’ll notice there’s a lot of time left in your duty instance and that doing your objectives takes only minutes to complete. That is because once you complete your objectives, you are left to wait for hyperelectricity weather! To pass the time, you’re to do fates for their lockbox rewards, to trade them in for new i265 gear. This is the part where you Fate Grind for Loot. (i280 weapons drop from Emergency Missions.) Similar to Palace of the Dead, Lockboxes can be traded in at a Lockpicking Vendor for random items! 40 Damaged Lockboxes are required for 1 piece of loot, whereas 1 regular Lockbox can issue 1 piece of loot.

Now is the tricky part. “Kharn! You mentioned waiting for hyperelectricity weather? Why!?”  That’s because hyperelectricity unlocks the super secret boss fate we all saw in the trailer at the center of the map. It’s random, and the Haillenarte NPC will extend the timer on the duty by 15 Minutes and alert everyone of an EMERGENCY MISSION to complete it. Weather progresses over time, which is why I recommend Fate Grinding for your new i265/280 gear until the instance boots you itself. House Haillenarte Pilot: Pray do proceed with caution. The energies of the Diadem have become ever more volatile, and the cause is said to lie in the drifting arrival of that Mhachi ruin... House Haillenarte Pilot: This isle, this...missing gem, has anchored itself near the Crown Jewel. 'Twould seem that the ruins themselves are impenetrable until a path is forced upon by a storm of hyperelectricity. House Haillenarte Pilot: Such weather is rare, but I shall be certain to alert you via linkpearl should a window of opportunity present itself. We must not waste any chance we have at divining the isle's secrets...not to mention claiming its treasures!

Also, if you wish to get to the lower level of Diadem (beneath the purple mist) you must look for AETHERIAL GAPS! Clicking on them will shoot you below the mist to do special fates and hunt Notorious Monsters.  Aetherial Gaps can also be found near caves, which’ll send you inside. I haven’t found them all, so I can’t tell you where they all lead, so happy hunting! [A final note!] If you see Mirage Snails (aka Pure White Crystals) or Pure Black Crystals/Dark Crystals, they offer buffs when charged and will sometimes charge in the middle of FATES happening upon or around them. Touching them will take all their aether and siphon it into a buff for the person that touched them. Only a finite amount of people can grab it and must wait for it to recharge at random.  If you guys have any additional info, feel free to reblog and tack it on!

[angry-healers]

Lemme word it differently: You shouldn't get 280 weapons in something you can enter at 220. Even with relics you need to be at least 230 to even touch some of the dungeons required and it takes a while to make for someone with less playtime than a mid to hardcore player. Raid weapons require you to be 250+ at the least (going from when 2.4 dropped. People cleared A12S at 245-250. Maybe lower.) So for a weapon that beats them both to drop in a 220 instance with 72 people and not just 8? Even if the chance of getting a good one is low, just no. The WD alone kills the relic and raid weapon for mages especially and the possible stats you can get are ridiculous. That's not fair. -- Mod Mhi

[balphagor]

A week has passed, so let's go check in with Zhloe!

[sphairais]

Diadem is pretty.

[kilieit]

So You Want Your Bonus Gatherer Scrips from Zhloe [BTN/MIN, 3.55b edition]

This guide assumes you are a Botanist and/or Miner, and that you have at least 600 GP.

Values at or above 650 Gathering / 645 Perception are recommended. Higher is better, especially for Perception.

H/t @bride-and-bride for helping me confirm the collectability thresholds for Rainbow Pigment!

[ more tutorials ]

Tier 1 - Dated Radz-at-Han Coin

Minimum Turn-in Collectability Threshold: 240~ Minor Bonus Collectability Threshold: 320~ Maximum Bonus Collectability Threshold: 450~

Recommended Rotation: Average [470~, 3 appraisals, 1 to 3 collects] Discerning Eye -> Impulsive Appraisal [1] ->    -> IF Discerning Eye buff remains,    -> THEN Single Mind -> Impulsive Appraisal [2]    -> ELSE Discerning Eye -> Impulsive Appraisal [2]        --> IF Discerning Eye buff remains,        --> THEN Single Mind -> Methodical Appraisal [3]        --> ELSE Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [3] Collect 1 to 3

Tier 2 - Ice Stalagmite

Minimum Turn-in Collectability Threshold: 240~ Minor Bonus Collectability Threshold: 360~ Maximum Bonus Collectability Threshold: 480~

Recommended Rotation: Average [470~, 3 appraisals, 1 to 3 collects] Discerning Eye -> Impulsive Appraisal [1] ->     -> IF Discerning Eye buff remains,     -> THEN Single Mind -> Impulsive Appraisal [2]     -> ELSE Discerning Eye -> Impulsive Appraisal [2]         --> IF Discerning Eye buff remains,         --> THEN Single Mind -> Methodical Appraisal [3]         --> ELSE Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [3] Collect 1 to 3

Tier 3 - Duskfall Moss

Minimum Turn-in Collectability Threshold: 240~ Minor Bonus Collectability Threshold: 400~ Maximum Bonus Collectability Threshold: 500~

Recommended Rotation: Medium [515~, 3 appraisals, 1 collect] Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [1] -> Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [2] -> Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [3] -> Collect 1

Tier 4 - Glass Eye

Minimum Turn-in Collectability Threshold: 240~ Minor Bonus Collectability Threshold: 450~ Maximum Bonus Collectability Threshold: 515~

Recommended Rotation: Medium [515~, 3 appraisals, 1 collect] Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [1] -> Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [2] -> Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [3] -> Collect 1

Tier 5 [Proc] - Rainbow Pigment

The Tier 5 proc possibilities are as follows:

Orphanage Donation (Disciples of the Hand, rewards Crafters’ Scrips)

Rainbow Pigment (Disciples of the Land, rewards Gatherers’ Scrips)

River Shrimp (Fishers, rewards Gatherers’ Scrips)

You will be randomly assigned one or more [h/t: @oukaori​] of these, per week, at scrip rollover. Assignments are personal (i.e. they will be different for every character). They cannot be changed. The remaining slots will be filled randomly with items from the previous four tiers.

Turning in six Tier 5 items, at maximum bonus collectability, will reward a total of 1080 Blue Scrips and 450 Red Scrips in the corresponding type.

In the event that you are assigned Rainbow Pigment:

Minimum Turn-in Collectability Threshold: 240~ Minor Bonus Collectability Threshold: 470~ Maximum Bonus Collectability Threshold: 550~

Recommended Rotation: High [530~, 4 appraisals, !!! collect]* Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [1] -> Discerning Eye -> Methodical Appraisal [2] -> Utmost Caution -> Methodical Appraisal [3] -> Utmost Caution -> Methodical Appraisal [4] -> Collect !!!*

*This rotation MUST be performed on a gathering node with +1 Gathering Attempts [1 Collect] or +2 Gathering Attempts [2 Collect]! Check all six nodes in the area, and if none of them carry this bonus, either deplete them until you find one that does (no GP lost) or zone out and back in again (no GP lost). Do not attempt this rotation on a normal 4-attempt node; you will lose your GP and your collectable.

I tested this rotation myself on a +2 node, with my 774/759/622 gear (full Landmaster with an Augmented mainhand), and managed to get 583 and 588 collectability on the Rainbow Pigment. Hopefully, that means this rotation should hit the 550~ threshold with the 650/645/600 gear as well, at least some of the time.

If - due to low Perception - you consistently fail to hit the 550~ threshold with this rotation, my recommendation is to use the Average rotation (recommended for tiers 1 and 2) to hit the 470~ threshold until such a time as you’ve upped your Perception. If you can’t afford Ironworks Gathering, then you can find my Patch 3.5 DoL gearing guide here.

Good luck!

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[paissa-brat]

hmmm.... not sure how i feel about some of this stuff? i280 weapons are cool in theory but also kind of annoying for people who are grinding relics/raiding because u can likely spend like an hour getting something that’s bis..?

i dunno. the new crafted gear looks neat tho!

[aywren]

FFXIV: Patch 3.55b Diadem Revamp (No Salt)

FFXIV: Patch 3.55b Diadem Revamp (No Salt)

The newest FFXIV patch brought us the revamped Diadem, just as promised. It also brought a truck-load of community salt… because MMO communities have to find something to be salty about. To tl;dr: ilvl 280 pink weapons have a very very slim chance of dropping from the Emergency Missions in Diadem. People are flipping tables over it. ┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻ The moment I heard about these weapons, I knew…

[whispersofshadowsguild]

FFXIV Maintenance - patch 3.55b HotFixes

FFXIV Maintenance – patch 3.55b HotFixes

Maintenance: Mar. 14, 2017 11:00 p.m. to Mar. 15, 2017 3:00 a.m. (PDT)

[kaos-sverige]

Final Fantasy XIV - Patch 3.55b [A Diadem Reborn]

Published on Mar 9, 2017

Patch 3.55b went live on March 9th. it includes a revamp of Exploratory Missions aka The Diadem. Full patch notes can be found here: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodesto... Follow me on twitter: @itsboats FINAL FANTASY is a registered trademark of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. FINAL FANTASY XIV © 2010 - 2016 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

[a-generouslydeliciouscollec-blog]

『FFXIV』最新パッチ3.55bが配信開始、「雲海探索 ディアデム諸島」が大規模リニューアル スクウェア・エニックスは、オンラインRPG『ファイナルファンタジーXIV』の最新パッチとなる「Patch 3.55b」の最新情報を公開しました。Patch 3.55は今年の1月17日に公開されたFFXIVの大型パッチ、Patch 3.5「宿命の果て」に続くアップデートです。「a」と「b」に分かれており、今回公開されたPatch 3.55bでは「雲海探索 ディアデム諸島」の大規模リニューアルが行われ Source: ゲームのニュースまとめ

[xmimiteh]

zephyrusmontenbelt replied to your post “Zhloe says ...”

I don't think there's any MSQ stuff until 3.56. I think 3.55b is basically Diadem 2.0

You are totally correct. This can very well be. Maybe it is even probabey as the last patch should be roundabout two months before 4.0 which is still a little ahead.

Nevertheless I just wanted to be safe and sure and remind people of tagging their spoilers and also which spoiler tags are going to be on my blog as I think this to be extremely important.

[angry-healers]

Yeah I'm like steadily getting over it myself because yeah I'm satisfied I got something awesome for the time I put into them. I'm sure raiders feel the same. The issue is that the weapon is 280 and (particularly for mages) has a base weapon damage increase over both the relic and raid weapons. For mages it's a +3 for 5 ilvls. Might seem small because lol3 but actually it's a lot in terms of your base attribute INT/MND which all together is your magic damage/healing done and listen I love the numbers okay, not gonna lie. I'm casual and it still matters to me but it'll matter more to people who raided for their for sure. Also for those who are saying worthless in 3 months: unless SE is planning to make the new leveling content so hard that we have to upgrade immediately at 61, our gear is going to last until at most 66. Being capped in gear pre patch gives us a headstart as with any mid pack patch. And for those of us leveling the new classes that already have mnk, smn or blm leveled, that 60 gear will be worn by those classes as well. It matters. Even if it's leveling content. -- Mod Mhi

[balphagor]

So the Diadem was taken down because they were not happy with it, so I guess it is time for...

Diadem Diadem XIV: A Diadem Reborn - Let the Salt Flow!

[sphairais]

Diadem is a thing now and I’m eager to try it after classes today cause it saves me from doing savage for certain things.

Also saves me from getting anima cause I hate fate grinding so far.

[kilieit]

19/02/17 Live Letter TL;DR:

Q&A

Butt sliders: no

Increasing garden item slots: maybe later

Eos or Selene recovering position after knockback: do it yourself!

Rhythm game in Gold Saucer: maybe (probably not)

Remove racial restrictions for hairstyles: yes for some, not all

Remove racial restrictions for hempen sets: difficult technically

Repeating MSQ fights: difficult technically. Roll an alt

3.0 EX primals too easy, what about 4.0?: accessiblity of content is more important to them

Krile outfit on mogstation: would be expensive to make

More Hildibrand trials?: probably not. Hildibrand may or may not reappear in 4.X

In-game/official DPS parser: hard no

PS4 Pro patch: in progress

Keeping flowers in pots: planned for 3.5X

Umbrellas as a vanity item: considering adding as a mount

PotD across data centre: in progress, but cross server alliance raids first

/tells across data centre: in progress, as are linkshells, free companies, and friends lists

3.55a news

Live on Tuesday, 28th February

Anima weapon story quests - “easy!”

Zhloe Aliapoh - story quests for crafters and gatherers

Proto Ultima battle

The Feast

new maps

sudden death to resolve draws

new items and adjustments

season 3 ending / season 4 pre-season so people can get used to new map before ranking begins

Items:

Adjustments to Sophic and Demon Lanner drop rates

Garo Gear added to Calamity Salvager

FanFest gear codes redeemable

3.55a because Diadem isn’t ready for release yet. They’re very sorry, but there’s a bug they couldn’t fix in time. Will be in 3.55b

3.55b release planned anywhere between March 7th - 14th

Constant stream of content between 3.55 and 4.0

MSQ continuation in 3.56

Guinness World Records

Final Fantasy 14 has longest end credits in an MMO video game (1 hour 38 minutes)

Final Fantasy 14 has the highest number of original pieces of music in a video game (384 original compositions)

Final Fantasy series is the most prolific role-playing game series (87 titles)

Full(ish) transcript in my Frankfurt FanFest document!

[mmogaminglist]

Final Fantasy XIV previews a new trial and new deliveries for patch 3.55a

The bad news about Patch 3.55a for Final Fantasy XIV is the stuff it's not going to contain. If you're eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the Main Scenario, it's not in this patch. It's not even going to contain the revamped Diadem, as a few bugs have held that content back until patch 3.55b. What do you think about this news posting? Join the discussion now! Source:... Final Fantasy XIV previews a new trial and new deliveries for patch 3.55a https://mmogaminglist.com/threads/final-fantasy-xiv-previews-a-new-trial-and-new-deliveries-for-patch-3-55a.258/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr Join the discussion at https://mmogaminglist.com