This reference almost slipped past me...

[Duuude007]

Per Fernhawles at this week's blog post:

Recently, I’ve seen several people on the Lodestone forums express how cool it would be if, instead of pics, I could sneak a few music clips up on the blog as well. So, I donned my ninja garb, popped open a bottle of prism powder, and slipped into the shadows of the sound department—destination: FINAL FANTASY XIV sound director Masayoshi Soken's studio.

Reference:


and for sound:



Does this mean there will once again be potions and spells that grant invisibility or anti-sound buffs to evade aggro?

Interested to learn more.

[kurokawa]

I thought that too.

Remember sneaking around for the first time trying to get BLU in ffxi. Couldn't have done it without those potions.

It was good to add that dynamic to the quest. Hope they add them.

[Duelle]

Hope not. It sucked to be reliant on those to explore in FFXI. And it also precipitates having to create true sight/sound mobs if the developers feel like being dicks.

Suffice to say, the extremes it was taken to in FFXI caused two people I knew to swear to never set foot in the Aht Urghan zones. Don't really want to see that here.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Add them pls more adventure!

[Duuude007]

And it also precipitates having to create true sight/sound mobs if the developers feel like being dicks.

I'm... guessing you never tried to reach every Aetherial node in 1.0? Sight aggro and sound/true sound indeed exist. Ignoring how certain things aggro could render some of these nodes near impossible to reach.

[mikoto_qc]

I thought that too.

Remember sneaking around for the first time trying to get BLU in ffxi. Couldn't have done it without those potions.

It was good to add that dynamic to the quest. Hope they add them.

Lol. Now that u mention it. I cant belive i do remember the first time i used it. I can see this moment in my head just like it was yesterday.BLU did not even exist at that time for me. I ws with 2 other guy. we try to make our way from Bastok to Sandoria. To pass through Valkrum Dune tunel a girl, short white hair mithra, gave us prism powder and the other one for not been detected by sound...lol cant even remember the name. I was just amaze by the foot step in sand that i was following to make sure im not loosing her sight. I was also impress by the look of valkrum with the palm tree and all that sands. wow its bring good really old memory.

[Duuude007]

To pass through Valkrum Dune tunel a girl, short white hair mithra, gave us prism powder and the other one for not been detected by sound...lol cant even remember the name.

Grease me up! ...with some Silent Oil, lol.

[KiriA500]

I hope those items/spells stay out of the game. I prefer the method we had of avoiding aggro in 1.0, walking past sound and behind sight.

[Duelle]

I'm... guessing you never tried to reach every Aetherial node in 1.0? Sight aggro and sound/true sound indeed exist. Ignoring how certain things aggro could render some of these nodes near impossible to reach.

I have gotten every node in 1.0. Had the title before November. My point stands.

Having to walk to get around aggro is a lot less painful than becoming dependent on consumables. Besides, the only annoying true-anything mobs were the pigs that were 10-40 levels higher than I was at lv50. That's nothing compared to some of the stuff I saw in FFXI over the years.

[VitoScaletta]

I vividly remember trying to get passed the boss trolls with true sight in Halvung while on the way to a certain part of Mount Zhaylom to xp on dragons. I hope more instances of places like these, where you're walking on glass essentially, or just too cheap to use oils/prisms.