Rival Wings: The Quickening (5.3 Speculation)

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Notes: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...3b3da623e3670d

tl;dr:

• Shorter max match length; gobcrates spawn sooner to match
• Cruise Chaser and Brute Justice damage buffs
• Push objective buffs (sturdier gobtanks; gobtanks and mercs increased damage against mammets)

Thoughts on it: Seems they are trying to increase the pace of Rival Wings by lowering the time matches can go for and making push objectives stronger. They also greatly increased the efficacy of mechs VS players, which makes sense since ranged and healers have a bigger HP pool this expansion.

It is notable that Oppressor was left out of the changes. For the most part they will still be the same (they will die to other mechs faster), but it increases the importance in map objectives which is nice since gobtanks could use some love. BJs have a whopping 50% DPS increase against structures though so I think matches will pick up pretty fast after a tower falls granted your pilot is competent.

Anyways, what do you folks think of the changes so far?

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