Update 2.5 is just around the corner and I offer you a little summary of what Square Enix told us recently about Lodstone.
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quests
- Added epic quests.
- Added chronicles of a new era.
- Side stories (Hildidi back!)
- Postman Mog Quests.
- Side quests, for access to new dungeons but especially one that is unlocked if you have all the primordial mounts (gotta catch them all!).
- Rewards have been added to some daily Ixali quests.
- The difficulty of some recipes for the Ixali quests has been reduced.
Mandate
- Rewards are updated when a mandate that has already been delivered at least once is abandoned. As a result, the amount of shards obtained from certain crafting warrants can increase.
Large companies
- Free Companies have new rights as well as the ability to use Ethereal Towers (explained later) and to assign / revoke Free Company Servants.
- Fertilizer usage no longer appears in the activity log.
Housing
- Addition of ethereal towers, they basically allow to diffuse an energy similar to that of the benefits of company, finally an alternative which will make it possible to depend a little less on the points of free company.
Method of use
1: Install the base in the house.
2: place the tower on the base and let it charge (like an iPhone!)
3: recover the loaded tour.
4: Once loaded, you need to confirm the following action.
5: it can then be used by the company as a benefit.
- The servants can now be assigned to the gardens, no need to enter the house to sell etc ...
- There is now a confirmation message before eating a cooked meal in an accommodation.
- If the chocobo does not level up after eating a Thavnair onion, a confirmation message appears, no more wasting.
- New hairstyles have been added.
Insights with different breeds:
- A new character has been added to Mor Dhona, Azena.
- The architecture of Death's Death has changed again.
Combats
- Spell cooldown is no longer reset if you change class or job inside a resting place (like currently in cities).
New dungeons are coming
- The Guardian of the Lake
- The Vagabond's Palace (Brutal)
- Amdapor Castle (Brutal)
- An overview of the new sets
New challenges are emerging
- The Fountain of Urth (Odin!)
- Revenge on the old castle
- And ???, a mystery challenge (apparently related to the epic, Castum 2? Mwehehe).
A new raid
- The Crystal Tower - the Dark World
- This time the team structure contains only one tank and 5 damage classes. (even in the case of a preformed team).
- Booty
- In addition, you will be able to obtain reinforcement items for poetic pieces.
- Allagan Catalysts will be accessible in the Ancient Daedalus and the Tower of Syrcus.
- Martial memorabilia bonuses for new players will appear in recent dungeons and raid (Snowmass, brutal and extreme Shiva ...).
- The number of memorabilia obtained for each mission has been modified.
- A random mission for the Front has been added in the mission tool, so we will return more quickly normally.
- The wait button has been added to the mission confirmation window to allow the window to be hidden.
- A warning message will appear when you press Remove.
- A confirmation window will appear if you summon your chocobo while you are in the mission tool.
- Random missions have been changed, current experts become high level and new experts will be the new dungeons in this patch.
- The synchronization system has been extended.
- The echo is now present in the brutal and extreme Akh Afah Amphitheater.
- Suppression game mode for the Front has been added, basically it's a good old Deathmatch. You have to kill a certain number of players to get the victory.
- There will be teleporters.
- And a new adrenaline system (Personal Transcendence).
- As well as a system of drunkenness and combat fever (A lalafelle in Killing spree!)
Objects
- There are quite a few new items and recipes coming up.
- The maximum recycling value has increased: 100 to 110 per job and 300 to 350 in total.
- The recycling value no longer drops until it reaches the maximum.
- If a harvest is started without having provoked the enmity of the surrounding monsters, any area attack of the latter will have no effect on the character.
System
- New achievements and titles have been added.
- The emote "Detector pose" has been added.
- A new rank for servant exploration tasks has been added.
- When playing with the mouse, a right click on the title of a window displays the sub-commands for adjusting said window.
- The pets bar as well as the special actions bar now replaces the shortcut bar # 1, when the character is holding a piece of scenery in his hands or is on the back of a mount. And that will make it possible to be much more efficient with cannons for example.
- A targeting sign now displays on the Enmity List.
- Differences can be made in the presentation of the interface for individual functions and those shared with other players (company chest, etc.).
- For clarity during quick summaries, the "Stop" button darkens when the action is taken.
- An explanation window is now displayed with the list of modifiable categories during the creation of a character or a new haircut.
- Multiple items can now be purchased consecutively on the sales table.
- The help window now allows you to check the color of dyed objects. So if you see someone with a pretty appearance you no longer have to pester them to find out what color they used.
- You can reset each element of the ATH one by one and no longer all of a sudden necessarily.
- In the "Character configuration" part of the System section of the main menu, the choices below have been added to the "Display of status icons" option of the "ATH" tab of the "Interface and windows" section ": Aligned Left (beneficial effects) and Aligned Left (adverse effects). This will make debuffs and buffs in raid much more visible.
- In alliance chat mode, the character's alliance letter is now displayed.
- The team finder menu can now be opened from the messages in the log window.
- Functions for the use of the mouse on PS4 have been added, the sensitivity or the modification of the traces of the cursor.
- A dice roll has been added.
- The PlayStation®4 version now allows the use of the motion detection controller and the PlayStation®Move navigation controller (When is the Occulus Rift version coming?).
