Patch 3.5 - Speculation Thread

I hope they scrap the whole Egi glam nonsense and focus on something more important and relevant. (I main SMN and I honestly think this Egi business is waste of time)

What I wanna see tomorrow is :

Cross server PF
Diadem

Want to see cross server party finder in 3.5.

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Originally Posted by Mature

I hope they scrap the whole Egi glam nonsense and focus on something more important and relevant. (I main SMN and I honestly think this Egi business is waste of time)

What I wanna see tomorrow is :

Cross server PF
Diadem

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They aren't scrapping it :P

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Originally Posted by Mature

I hope they scrap the whole Egi glam nonsense and focus on something more important and relevant. (I main SMN and I honestly think this Egi business is waste of time)

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I agree, they should focus their attention on actually making 2 of the 3 summons useful, and providing more useful pet classes. My static's warrior / raid leader said yesterday, "Yeah, I thought the idea of playing a pet class was to, you know, use various pets."

With its current design, may as well just add Garuda's skills to the summoner and get rid of the pet all together.

Note: that conversation came above as we were discussing A12S where you have the group split in two. I volunteered to be one of the people who goes in to fight the add 1v1. I said, "hey, I can go in and use titan". They then corrected me that the add just sends out an aoe attack, so titan would not be helpful. Silly me for thinking the devs might add content which encourages the use of one of those other summons.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

I agree, they should focus their attention on actually making 2 of the 3 summons useful, and providing more useful pet classes. My static's warrior / raid leader said yesterday, "Yeah, I thought the idea of playing a pet class was to, you know, use various pets."

With its current design, may as well just add Garuda's skills to the summoner and get rid of the pet all together.

Note: that conversation came above as we were discussing A12S where you have the group split in two. I volunteered to be one of the people who goes in to fight the add 1v1. I said, "hey, I can go in and use titan". They then corrected me that the add just sends out an aoe attack, so titan would not be helpful. Silly me for thinking the devs might add content which encourages the use of one of those other summons.

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They should of just made egi-glamour, minion replacement. Replace your egi with a minion, but that's all, it just reskins them as minion.

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Originally Posted by Mature

I hope they scrap the whole Egi glam nonsense and focus on something more important and relevant. (I main SMN and I honestly think this Egi business is waste of time)

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So many of this. Why they keep asking glamour while the egi itself is pretty broken? Ifrit and Titan rarely used by people because of garuda's contagion.

Egi Glamours are confirmed for 3.5 <3 Suck it haters.

But yeah, I want them to highlight Ifrit's strengths more and replace Contagion. The hell does Garuda even have that spell for? What is its relation to wind?

Updated main post with LL Info:

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Originally Posted by RobbieH

Part 1 Release Date: Mid January 2017
Part 2: March 2017


Live Letter November 25th 2016:
Party Finder Updates
- Data Center PF
- PF FIlters
- Password Locked Parties

PVP Frontlines:
- No GC restrictions

PVP Duels:
- ilvl150 Sync (Unsynced Duels still available)
- Recast Timers reset at start of duels

PVP Feast
- New Map
- Chat Disabled During Battles
- New Auto Translate options will be implemented as PVP actions and can be added to hotbar

Chocobo Companion Updates
- Duty finder can be used while chocobo is out
- Chocobos will be classied s pets (like SMN and SCH pets)
- party of 8 can contain 8 players nd 8 chocobos

Summoner Egi updates
- Egi apperance can be changed with text commands
- Other players can see your Egi glamours

New Content in 3.5:
- Novice Network
--Players can change if they want to accept to join the novice network channel and can leave it
- Features for Returning players
- Able to preview item colors in the equipment screen
- Paintings will be added as furnishings (housing)

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Originally Posted by Rennies

Egi Glamours are confirmed for 3.5 <3 Suck it haters.

But yeah, I want them to highlight Ifrit's strengths more and replace Contagion. The hell does Garuda even have that spell for? What is its relation to wind?

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i missed it. is it only smn or does it count for sch too?

How the devil do you even pronounce "Zhloe"?

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Originally Posted by madolyn

i missed it. is it only smn or does it count for sch too?

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Only SMN. no SCH

Did anyone else notice the teaser/sneak ?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...4&d=1480073209

Top right, who is that ?
The other three I can ID ....

They mentioned something about Windows 10. Anyone who understands Japanese catch what they said about it? Especially if it's something along the lines of Windows 10 being required in the future?

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Originally Posted by St0rmchild

Did anyone else notice the teaser/sneak ?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...4&d=1480073209

Top right, who is that ?
The other three I can ID ....

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Isn't that the boss of T8?

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Originally Posted by ZhaneX

Isn't that the boss of T8?

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That was my thought.

Turn 7; Melusine, so yes.
https://i.gyazo.com/ba558160682abd35...f853ad63dd.jpg

Thanks for clarifying, I knew somewhere my lack of doing coils was gonna kick me in the backside :(

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

They mentioned something about Windows 10. Anyone who understands Japanese catch what they said about it? Especially if it's something along the lines of Windows 10 being required in the future?

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Yoshi's PC popped an update when the Live Letter started so they updated the computer. Nothing game related.

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Originally Posted by Chessala

Yoshi's PC popped an update when the Live Letter started so they updated the computer. Nothing game related.

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Ah, thank you~!

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Originally Posted by Chessala

Only SMN. no SCH

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thanks. that is disappointing :(

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Originally Posted by ZhaneX

How the devil do you even pronounce "Zhloe"?

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Like Khloe only replace the first /k/ sound with the /ʒ/ from the end of beige. Its not a sound used at the beginning of English words but the sound does does exist in the language. Or you could go with the Chinese /j/ pronunciation for zh and end up with something that sounds like J-loey.

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

Like Khloe only replace the first /k/ sound with the /ʒ/ from the end of beige. Its not a sound used at the beginning of English words but the sound does does exist in the language. Or you could go with the Chinese /j/ pronunciation for zh and end up with something that sounds like J-loey.

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Yes, I kind of figured that.

It's just that it sounds weird as all hell to me pressed up to the "low-ee".

The quality of life stuff really stood out to me from this live letter.

1. Can queue for DF with your chocobo summoned! I've wanted this since 2.0 launched.

2. Novices can refuse invitations to the Novice Network instead of being dumped in. It's crazy to me that this wasn't in when the feature launched.

3. The start if the long awaited Egi glamours.

4. PVP fans getting the option to queue for any GC in Frontlines.

My only disappointment is there wasn't any mention of squadrons being updated. I was hoping they'd be more than a venture system before Stormblood.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

I agree, they should focus their attention on actually making 2 of the 3 summons useful, and providing more useful pet classes. My static's warrior / raid leader said yesterday, "Yeah, I thought the idea of playing a pet class was to, you know, use various pets."

With its current design, may as well just add Garuda's skills to the summoner and get rid of the pet all together.

Note: that conversation came above as we were discussing A12S where you have the group split in two. I volunteered to be one of the people who goes in to fight the add 1v1. I said, "hey, I can go in and use titan". They then corrected me that the add just sends out an aoe attack, so titan would not be helpful. Silly me for thinking the devs might add content which encourages the use of one of those other summons.

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Probably because they already intend to revamp the combat system. No real reason to make job adjustments now when they're going to overhaul things five months later.

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Originally Posted by ErryK

Panda is definitely Cash Shop, we already know the rewards for Heavensturn as well as the Starlight event.

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Link to info please!...

I understand why they localised Shiro to Zhloe after turning Kuro into Khloe (Shiro and Kuro being cute cat names in Japanese, and Khloe being very similar in spelling to Kuro in Japanese). However, I really, really wish they hadn't. Localising character names is an extremely frustrating trend pretty much any time it's been done in the history of gaming, and in an worldwide MMO where you're regularly communicating with people using other language clients (which I do every time I play) it's a real pain in the neck to have proper nouns be completely different between versions. It gave me years upon years of irritation in FFXI when I was using a different client to the rest of my linkshell.

Right now I know that Shiro = Zhloe. In a year, I will have forgotten and be confused at PFs for 'Shiro's XYZ' instead of what it's actually called in my game. Please don't do this again. It's so hard to have conversations in game when everyone has to clarify what everything is all the time.

Why did they feel the need to change names? Those original names even make sense..I sometimes dont understand the localization team..I mean this is a fantasy game with NPCs that have lots of different and strange names..

Are the Miqo'te naming guidelines not a thing in the Japanese version?

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Probably because they already intend to revamp the combat system. No real reason to make job adjustments now when they're going to overhaul things five months later.

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...... huh?

Cross server PF is a wet dream i cant wait to finally farm primals without waiting hours to fill it up and repeat after 2-3 kills it's so...boring.
Also higher savage tier training groups might work good. Raidfinder is a charm already but sadly only for sophia and a9s+a10s, good farm with low to mid que times.

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Originally Posted by Texa

Are the Miqo'te naming guidelines not a thing in the Japanese version?

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The Japanese names in this particular case can more or less fit the Keeper guidelines; Kuro is pronounced differently to Khloe but recognisable as more-or-less the same word (Kuro is クロ while Khloe would be クロエ). Perhaps it's a pet name or something. They could have written it any way they liked in roman letters to make it sound more Miqo'te-style rather than like a real name but that's the team's call.

Likewise, they could have written Shiro in a way that fit the guidelines in English easily enough - I'm sure Keeper names exist which are more-or-less close to Shiro phonetically - but they decided that making a cutesy pair of names was more important than consistency between languages. I wish the localisation team could occasionally remember that a lot of people play in mixed language groups :(