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I feel like items that correspond to Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy will basically be a waste after this patch. How are you dealing with that?
Yoshida: After the patch, you won't obtain Philosophy anywhere - it will be replaced with Mythology. There will be a NPC available which allows you to exchange currency at a predetermined rate.
What will happen to Darklight equipment which you were able to obtain for Philosophy?
Yoshida: It will be changed to a normal dungeon drop. It will drop in the dungeons which are added to the high level roulette. Instanced dungeons will have equipment at level 70, Crystal Tower will be level 80, and Turns 1-5 of Bahamut Coil as well as mythology gear will be level 90. The increase in item level should lead to growth on the main job. When we raise the level cap with an expansion and add additional dungeons and field area, that will lead to overall character growth.
Increasing the item level is just one direction, though, we also need to increase the breadth of items available at each level, which we plan to address in the future.
Ok so this has my interest the most right now. Darklight, when 2.2 rolls round will be part of the armor roulette for Brayflox Longstop HM, Ruins of Amdapor, and Halatali HM. I find this to be interesting as those that don't have DL armor as of yet, slower casuals and the players of the future, are now forced to get the items a few pieces at a time. I skipped parts of DL in favor of CT with two pieces already, and I will not collect the rest of the DL before 2.2 cause of how slow I am. This isn't a complaint really, I'm excited for the new dungeons, more so since I have to do them to get the i70 gear that they are to drop. (He specifically says that DL is the drops for the new dungeons being added to the Duty Finder, these are the only 3 I know of.)
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About how much content do you have in mind?
Yoshida: We have about two years' worth of content planned. We've actually been working on the design for 3.0 for a long time now. We've already come up with dungeon names and the number of dungeons, as well as the theme and the name of the new top tier dungeon which will be like the next rendition of the Binding Coil of Bahamut. We've also come up with the look of the city area, as well as the number and theme of the field areas to be added.
However, if we look closer on the development schedule, things are more up in the air. For example, we haven't yet finalized the content for patch 2.3 because 2.3 is still in development and we want to have some level of improvisation available to us so that we can add things based on requests.
New End Game planned for the Expansion to take over BCoB. SWEET! Haven't even gotten to BCoB yet and I'm excited! Also confirmation of a new city to chill in. Ishgard? I'm hoping Ishgard or another area in Coethras. I can see others wanting Little Ala Mhigo. Personally I want in on the Holy See and....secretly want to murder the Dragon hating pompous fools....TTwTT