7.4 - Midseason Patch (Huge)

Mid season patch is here! I know its a meme by now, but this might be one of the biggest patches to date. Shall we go in to it right away? I'll start with the QoL changes. Bottom line: Everything is easier, faster, and smoother to progress on NG+, gigantic buff to players.

QUALITIES OF LIFE

• Dot Lock has been added. As you guys know, Freeze cuts Mag damage in half from bosses, Burn Physical, and Poison cuts the heals. This system will make it so the type of dot doesn't get overwritten if the dot itself is good for the boss. Example: Ruby weapon only does Magical Aoes, Freeze is guaranteed to stay even if a burn attack happens, still adds the potency, but doesn't change the type. Extremely beneficial to the players.
• In Season 3, The mastery system and their upgrades gets unlocked at NG+4, NG+14, and Ng+24. Before it was at NG+9, 19, and 34.
• When loosing a battle, a tip will appear. Explaining deep mechanics, or giving advice on how FFBot Works.
• !missing command is more clear to see now.
• Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters are now supported properly in the FFBot if a player joins with a nickname using those.
• Taunt no longer removes your ATB accumulated to that point. Huge buff to Tanks
• When playing Season 2 or 3, HP values when starting up a gauntlet for the first time no longer start at a lower value than they are supposed to. (Takes in to account HP increases from Artifacts and Jobs)
• Several Typos that describe Jobs have been corrected.
• Counters no longer remove your accumulated ATB, meaning that Tanks now can use their Kit even after countering.
  
• The crazy walls every 5 NG+ from Season 3 has been toned down. Progressing should feel significantly faster. The bot in general should feel easier.
  
• Ruby Weapon now acts slower. His base Speed has been lowered from 100 to 80.
• Brothers Esper now also takes in to account the spirit of the player.
• Lancet now displays properly, and also heals based on your own Atk value.
• The Monk Job now adds counters to characters that normally don't have them.
• A few new characters has been added when the streamer login in with the correct secret code/name... like icequeen

ADDITIONS

• !stats should be a bit more clear to see
• !ascend now display 50% of the stats instead of 35% (my bad)

CHARACTER REWORKS

• Ramza, Rosa, Caith Sith, Vincent, Rikku, Queen, Rinoa, Ward and Irvine has received full reworks, Check the guide document for more details.
• Bartz Limit Break went from 60 power to 40. It was accidentally too powerful

JOB BUFFS

• Warrior chances to crit go from 20% to 30%
• Black Mage damage goes from x1.3 to 1.5
• Ranger now deals Half Damage from a Third Damage
• Chemist now affect magic hits too.
• Monk Counter chance increase goes from 25% to 35%. Also adds countering to characters who doesn't have it naturally.
• Summoner damage increases from 20 to 30%
• Blue Mage paralysis chance goes from 10 to 20%
• Machinist damage goes from 20 to 30%

BUG FIXES

• Several descriptions for jobs now have better wording.
• Warrior no longer multiplies the damage to absurd levels on multihit
• The first stage when starting a new group for the cycle no longer starts at lower HP than they are supposed to due to HP increases multipliers.
• Bard Job no longer makes Taunts dissapear.
• The Mimic job no longer makes Quina malfunction with her Cook Skill.
• Gun Breaker Job no longer displays the incorrect damage when getting hit by a multihit skill.
• The Mimic Job now load the correct Limit Break of the character being replicated.
• Ranger/Illusionist now work correctly in tandem with the Time Mage Job
• The FFBot will now load the Season properly when starting the game without having to wait until the battle starts. (!stats will show properly)
• Asura Esper now heals the full amount when starting a new battle regardless of how many HP bonuses the player has.
• Faris now affect Elena with her Limit Break
• Raiden now procs all basic elemental spells

SECRETS

• Loads of them...