You can no longer place markers down during combat.
This single change will mean any alliance raid with an adds phase where players have to split up (which is basically all of them) will probably be so confusing without markers that you'll see more wipes and duty abandons after 5.1.
There are several reasons:
1. Trolls will clear all markers. Placing down the markers before the fight won't prevent trolls from clearing them mid-fight, but now you can't place them down anymore.
2. Tanks don't know what to do without markers. Having a tank not knowing where to go is a classic cause for a wipe. Without markers this issue will get significantly worse.
3. Adds will be killed unequally causing enrage. Especially in adds phases where a wall locks you inside, having people go to the wrong locations might mean only two people are in a room killing an add, causing a wipe.
4. Early pulling will get worse. Now early pulling is not only going to lock some players out, but it'll also disable markers.
5. People will kill each other with stacks. On Ozma players will get to the wrong location and if two stacks appear on the same location everyone will wipe.
Because of these reasons I expect alliance raids to become much harder than in the past, to the point where it may be no longer clearable. I hope Yoshi P is considering buffing the alliance raid roulette's XP by 100% because you're going to take twice the time in there because of all the wiping since they disabled markers. I also doubt the harder alliance raids like The Weeping City of Mhach is now doable in Duty Finder, meaning that new players probably can't clear it anymore (without finding 23 other people to help them).
To make matters worse, the new relic requires an entire chain of alliance raids. Without markers I don't see how you can get to the new relic without wiping and wiping over and over again. People will leave as soon as they see the Orbonne Monastery meaning most new players won't be able to access the new relic. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
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tl;dr: complete the Ivalice alliance raid (even if you don't care about the relic right now) before it's too late. You can still use markers right now but who knows what will happen in 5.2.
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This single change will mean any alliance raid with an adds phase where players have to split up (which is basically all of them) will probably be so confusing without markers that you'll see more wipes and duty abandons after 5.1.
There are several reasons:
1. Trolls will clear all markers. Placing down the markers before the fight won't prevent trolls from clearing them mid-fight, but now you can't place them down anymore.
2. Tanks don't know what to do without markers. Having a tank not knowing where to go is a classic cause for a wipe. Without markers this issue will get significantly worse.
3. Adds will be killed unequally causing enrage. Especially in adds phases where a wall locks you inside, having people go to the wrong locations might mean only two people are in a room killing an add, causing a wipe.
4. Early pulling will get worse. Now early pulling is not only going to lock some players out, but it'll also disable markers.
5. People will kill each other with stacks. On Ozma players will get to the wrong location and if two stacks appear on the same location everyone will wipe.
Because of these reasons I expect alliance raids to become much harder than in the past, to the point where it may be no longer clearable. I hope Yoshi P is considering buffing the alliance raid roulette's XP by 100% because you're going to take twice the time in there because of all the wiping since they disabled markers. I also doubt the harder alliance raids like The Weeping City of Mhach is now doable in Duty Finder, meaning that new players probably can't clear it anymore (without finding 23 other people to help them).
To make matters worse, the new relic requires an entire chain of alliance raids. Without markers I don't see how you can get to the new relic without wiping and wiping over and over again. People will leave as soon as they see the Orbonne Monastery meaning most new players won't be able to access the new relic. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
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tl;dr: complete the Ivalice alliance raid (even if you don't care about the relic right now) before it's too late. You can still use markers right now but who knows what will happen in 5.2.
Continue reading...