I thought I'd go through the big list of November/December updates from the Lodestone post a few weeks back and remove all the things that they already patched in November. Figured it would give us an early look at what we'd be getting in the mid-December patch.
Looks rather like slim pickings, other than the addition of NMs and retainer search.
November/December 2010 Update
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Quests- The addition of new guildleves
- Adjustments to existing guildleves
- The implementation of a feature allowing players to lower levequest difficulty after activating the leve
- Adjustments to local levequest rewards
- The Addition of a feature allowing players to abandon local levequests
- The implementation of main map markers to indicate the locations of local levequest clients
- Adjustments to existing behests
Combat- Adjustments to classes
- Adjustments to combat balance
- Adjustments to enmity rates
- Adjustments to physical and magical accuracy rates
- Adjustments to how skill points are awarded
- Adjustments to monster population and territory
- The implementation of notorious monsters
- Improvements to the targeting feature
Items/Synthesis/Gathering- Adjustments to existing synthesis recipes
- The addition of new synthesis recipes
- Improvements to synthesis controls
- The addition of a list that contains a player's eight most recently used recipes
- A reduction in the amount of commands necessary to begin synthesis
- Adjustments to gathering balance
- Adjustments to stack totals on select items
- The addition of a repair icon
- The addition of an auto item sort function
- Adjustments to item durability
- An increase in player inventory capacity
Markets/Retainers- Changes to how players access the market wards
- Adjustments to retainers
- A feature allowing players to change their retainers' equipment
- Changes to the retainer interface
- The addition of a default display of prices next to each item in a retainer's bazaar
- The implementation of icons for bazaar statuses (buying, selling, looking for repairs, etc.)
- An increase in the number of employable retainers
- The addition of an item search feature
User Interface- Improvements to the Main Menu
- The splitting of Attributes & Gear into two separate menu options
- The addition of a Loot option for easy access to the loot list
- Changes to how statuses are displayed
- Improvements to the Map
- The addition of mouse scrolling functionality
- The addition of a zoom feature
- The addition of party member location markers
- The addition of new customizable keyboard commands
- Improvements to the action bar, allowing players to freely position the widget
- Adjustments to macro functionality
Communication- The addition of a party invite feature to the friend list
- Changes to linkshell display
- Improvements to chat functionality
- The addition of a chat mode toggle feature
- The addition of multiple log window tabs and a feature allowing for multiple log windows
- The addition of chat filters for synthesis and harvesting
- The addition of a feature allowing the customization of chat mode font color
Others- The further alleviation of server-load issues
- The reduction of various anima costs and the introduction of a feature that allows players to set "favorite" teleportation destinations
The Lodestone- The addition of a linkshell page
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