Yoshida posted:

Alexander, will have two different modes, Normal and Hard. Normal will be for the people who want to take the time to enjoy the story-line. It will be slightly easier than the current endgame raid, The Binding Coil of Bahamut. It will be easier so that the more casual type player will be able to enjoy it. But at the same time we have the hard mode which is much harder. It’s planned to be even more challenging than the Binding Coil of Bahamut.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2z06p9/famitsu_paxeast_interview/ posted:

Astrologian can switch between a heal stance or a barrier stance. It's actually a bit too strong so there'll be restrictions on how often you can switch stances, a delay of some kind. Spells remain the same, their affects just change depending on stance so it's not like you'll need to juggle 2x more skills than other classes.
Names might change, but currently they're Tsukiyomi (moon reader) and Hoshiyomi (star reader).
You draw cards to buff your team. You can choose to use the card immediately, or hold and use it together with the next card. Astrologian will probably be a very busy and involving job, requiring you to think fast on your feet.

Astrologist's LB3 will be Celestial Stasis (星天停止) like in FFT, but since this is an MMO, they can't actually stop time for real. It'll seem like time stopped and suddenly everyone is at full health. It's actually quite reckless the way it was implemented.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2z06p9/famitsu_paxeast_interview/ posted:

Machinists, when using attachments on their rifles will become something akin to a canon. There'll be a charging animation/effect, the longer it is, the more powerful the attack is. (something like Rockman's charge shot) Moving resets the charge.
Attaching attachments is instant. If you need to be constantly on the move, don't use attachments.
Gun actions require a stacking gunpowder(or ammo) buff. Learning when to reload will be an important skill.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2z06p9/famitsu_paxeast_interview/ posted:

Dark knight lives on MP. They considered using HP as resource, but thought it would be too dangerous for raids, and so went with MP instead. You'll use MP to cast a darkness buff that drapes you with a darkness aura. Playstyle will revolve around maintaing that aura, using it for defence or damage.
There is level above darkness that has stronger actions and skills. It's a new style of tanking that's probably never before been seen.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2z06p9/famitsu_paxeast_interview/ posted:

The concept of FFXIV's armoury system is so you can be and do everything with just one character. Along the way, crafting became a little too hardcore. First, it started requiring everything to be HQ or bust. Then you it started requiring you to max-meld every piece of gear, and eventually you needed to do it for all jobs. What started as 'can be anything' twisted into 'must do everything'. While it may have been enjoyable for the really hardcore who enjoy this kind of gameplay, it pushes away the people who just want to do a simple bit of crafting now and then. With the Meister and scripts system, we're trying to get back to our core philosophy.

Same problem with Gathering, everyone ended up gathering the same thing, creating an oversupply thus making it difficult to create useful craftables for battle. In order to give more meaning to craftable gear/items and implment the next materia system, we need to control the supply of items and create differentiation between each gatherer.
It's probably terrible balance-wise to have dungeon drops always be the strongest so we're trying to change that.
With the new system, once you're at 60, you can then become an apprentice to each respective guilds' guild master. You'll gain new skills and recipes by becoming a meister/specialist. You can have more than one trademeister but there will be a delay before you're allowed to switch.
The new crafter scripts, temporarily called red and blue chips. You collect them by polishing up and raising the quality, in terms other than NQ/HQ, of some items.
For gatherers, each region will have something like folktales, their own lore and stories. You won't be able to see the new nodes unless you've already heard of these tales. These are were scripts will come in. Besides that there are also talismans that you can use to reveal these nodes.

Yoshida posted:

Yoshida: At the release of Heavensward Free Company crafting will become available. Within your Free Company housing you’ll be able to set up a sort of work shop in your basement. You may have seen visual aspects of this shown at a Producer Letter live but you’ll build a workshop in your basement. There’ll be two large categories of stuff you’ll be able to build with your Free Company, first of them being an actual house. And the second one is an airship.

I’m sure you want more information about the airships so I’ll delve a bit more into the details about that. With the building of the airship you’re not going to be picking from a list of available designs but building it from different parts. There will be four major parts which go into your Free Company ship.

For example the engine, fuel tank, the body, and then the sail that propels you and each part will have different designs as well as different capabilities. If you pick a high capability engine that has good power and a fast speed when you send your Free Company out with that high capability engine to scout based on we’ve been calling a “sky map” it can go out quickly and return fast but it’s a gas guzzler. It takes up a lot fuel. So you then add on a very large fuel tank. But because it’s so huge you lose space to store your items. Considering those different parameters that come with different parts you’ll be discussing among your Free Company members to see which parts you would need to build your ideal airship.

So that’s the first part of Free Company crafting in terms of an airship. At the start of Heavensward you’re not only able to have just one ship but you can actually build up to four ships. And those airships will be ranked. And depending on what your rank level is there will be different parts you can and cannot equip. At the start of Heavensward once you build your airship you’ll be able to send it out to scout, no passengers, just the ship goes out to try and scout. And then in a following patch you’ll then be able to board that ship and explore and find uncharted areas. And even beyond there’ll be capabilities to add combat capability so you can have sort of a battleship. So it’s going to be very major content that will become available throughout the 3.x patch series.

Once you’re able to go out and explore and travel and find those different areas in the sky you may find that some of these areas may have Notorious hardcore monsters that you can’t beat and just end up defeated and having to have to come back. Or you may find that other Free Company have already visited and trashed it and made a mess of it. Or you may end up finding a land where you can find really rare gathering items, materials that you can harvest. So there will be a lot of very interesting things you can look forward to in the 3.x series.

TARDISman posted:

Is the Rogue/Ninja going to be an update or in the Heavensward expansion?

Evil Fluffy posted:

Gas the thread, Chocobo problem solved.

RuanGacho posted:

FF14's first Expansion has been announced:

Release: Spring 2015

• Level Cap to 60
  New Jobs
  
  
• New Astrologian (AST)Job (Healer) New Machinist(MCH) Job(Ranged DPS) New Dark Knight(DRK) Job (Tank Job)
  
• New Aerial Mounts (Dragon)
  
• New FC Based Airship
  
• New Playable Race Au Ra
  
• New Primal Battles (Bismark) (Ravana)
  
• New Beast Races (Vanu Vanu) (The Gnath)
  
• Alexander (summoned by Goblins) is the new raid content in the spirit of Coil of Bahamut
  

Collectors Edition

Exclusive box art featuring Yoshitaka Amano's 'The Dragonsong War' illustration
A figure of the new Dragon Mount
Possibly Exclusive? Gryphon Mount
In game: Dark Knight Cecil themed Baron Helm
Kain minion

Velthice posted:

Luna Was Here posted:

I feel like I'll take up the cause next. Velthice can be the eyes and the ears and I can be the mouth

fadam posted:

"No I don't. You suck."

Without being able to point to concrete numbers call outs are meaningless and don't accomplish anything.

Leal posted:

This would be adorable if it wasn't fat shaming political incorrectness that only an eastern dev is capable of conjuring up.

A Spider Covets posted:

solidarity, my friend!... a lot of it.

Smornstein posted:

From what i remember MoonCattes are just as rare. The MoonCatte girl in the ARC questline is just as annoying too.

Xenoletum posted:

I'm not quite sure how.

Boten Anna posted:

Sorry all, apparently the ffgoons server reset itself like right after I went to bed. For some reason whenever that happens nginx boots before apache which keeps it from binding to port 80 and keeps the forums from coming up. Every time this happens I try some thing to keep that from happening only to find months later it didn't work

It's on an old server cluster and the hosting provider wants to move it and it could probably stand to be upgraded to the latest LTS, so with this I'll probably do some heavy maintenance during what will assuredly be a long maintenance window for Heavensward launch to upgrade the version, move it to the new cluster, and drive a steak through the nginx once and for all.

Boten Anna posted:

I'm getting scattered reports of people still thinking ffgoons.com is still broken. It has not been broken since before 10 AM EST. If it still looks broken, tell your browser to shut the gently caress up and stop caching stupid poo poo by holding shift while clicking reload.

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Are you like an OF superstar or something?

Not being sarcastic, genuine question.

DizzyBum posted:

Speaking of DoT classes, I wish there was a visual separation of your debuffs on a mob vs. everything else. I know they come at the start of the list and have a green font, but it's still hard to pick them out sometimes when things are hectic, and I prefer not to select the option to hide everyone else's effects. Just being able to glance up and quickly see how many DoTs are still up would be a huge help in deciding my next moves.

Also, is there an option to sort target's effects by time remaining? If there isn't, I would love to see that.


The duty is failed if you accumulate 60 or more deaths. The encounter is designed around this.

Rei_ posted:

So there's no Extreme trial specified in the patch notes? Is that normally not in there?

Velthice posted:

I'm curious how popular Au Ra will be when the expansion comes. I fully intend to play a blue dragon lady regardless.

Eej posted:

Rei_ posted:

Maybe they'll give hunt marks a bit of an HP buff, because it's exacerbating how...effecient...certain groups have gotten

Unlucky7 posted:

I think I just completed the last of the 2.5 story quests for now...

I am presuming "In Memory of Moenbryda" is the last for now, right? Also, gently caress you Midgardsormr you lizard piece of poo poo

EDIT: Okay, I went back in the thread and read some of the speculation. I kind of read Midgardsormr's actions as an indirect 'gently caress YOU' (Though the stripping of the blessing of light still kinda was), rather than him watching over you in proxy to Hydeline. Still, he is a dick.

Eight-Six posted:

Cloud Strife outfit announced as a 720 day veteran reward. Get your dress up on, nerds.

(also a lot of stuff about Gold Saucer that'll be translated by the community team sometime next week maybe)

quote:

triple triad:
can challenge other players in triple triad
cards from gold saucer and as drops etc.

chocobo:
breeding
chocobo gains exp from racing, feed to increase attributes
chests that give some kind of items on the race track

G.A.T.E.:
Gold saucer Active Time Event
simon says
some kind of run in a circle thing with typhon
run and dodge bombs
JUMPING PUZZLES

cactpot:
lottery
jumbo cactpot one ticket per week
minicactpot one ticket per day
drawing might be at the peak time of your datacenter? (likely understood that completely wrong)

and various mini-games
claw game (moogle's paw)
strength test game (crystal tower striker)
basketball toss (monster toss)
punch game (cuff-a-cur)
most are "press butan at right time"

3 sets of clothing
turtle and fenrir mount

triple triad boards in your house?

CoalforChristmas posted:

I'm pretty new to the FC myself but I've been running with MIST guys for a long time.

Now about Sal, he used to be known as Gondar and when my raid group was still new, he had this obnoxious habit of following girls around and /question ing them. He did this for months to me and the other 2 women in my raid group. One of them wouldn't put up with his bullshit after a while and told him to gently caress off and he got really upset and rage logged off. He changed names after he came back to Balmung. The reason why he left in the first place was to be with some internet girlfriend and next thing I know he's back in MIST under the name Salforis Mors. He has a habit of rage quitting mumble for little reason. Such as, a couple of people in my raid group had some trouble adjusting to Sal instead of Gondar and he freaked the gently caress out about that. The yo momma incident was a thing of glory. Literally the conversation in mumble went

*something something clear shot at the boss*
Your MOM's a clear shot at the boss!
Why you talking about my mom?
What?
I don't talk about your mom, why the gently caress you gotta talk about mine?
Are... are you joking?

And no he was not. Super Mario was in the channel with us telling him that its just a stupid joke and he needs to chill and we can't all walk on eggshells around him and then Sal goes "Well I'm going to shut down mumble then" and then Mario had a chat with him in another room and all was "well"

Nowadays, he spends his time demanding the tank in my group post a stream so he can give us advice on final coil. Sometimes, he'll come into our mumble channel and bother us by debating about things no one cares about.

MikeyLikesIt posted:

Ruan why are you causing a ruckus in your FC chat?

Verranicus posted:

So is anyone else easing off on playing in preparation for Triple Triad? I'm working on my last non-50 class but I'm doing it slowly (one level a day instead of grindgrindgrind) so I'm not burnt out before the feature I've been wanting for months is finally added.

The Doomhammer posted:

Considering the 2.5 patch trailer ends with Minfillia giving a rather desperate sounding 'you have to go on!' speech to the player character, I'm expecting something rather bad to happen to the scions in part 2. I could see them learning about TELEDJI ADELEDJI planning to launch a coup or something, try to set a trap for him and then captain Obvious Traitor does his obvious treachery and everything goes to hell. First the player loses the blessing of light, then suddenly has their entire support structure torn down around them just before the expansion hits (giving SE a chance to build a new supporting cast for Heavensward.)

Or maybe nothing will happen and we'll spend all Heavensward reporting back to Minfillia while the rest of the scions don't do anything. Who knows.

Alternatively, everyone develops a triple triad addiction and all current plot lines are dropped entirely.

pksage posted:

Is that Excalibur screenshot from the existing Zodiac quest, or is it new? If it's new, does anyone have a translation?