Live Letter XIV Discussion Thread

So that means 2.3 will not get released until late July early August?

Is there any lead on how Alexandrite will be obtained, other than the new Hunts?

lalafell new sitting pose was so cute

More glasses YAY

phew
I was glad that Yoshida doesnt cave in.
pls keep UU gear undyeable

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Q6: The Trials of the Braves are supposed to be ancient texts that showcase the deeds of the Zodiac Brave heroes, but why are modern imperial weapons shown in the book?

A6: The Trials of the Braves is an ancient text that was translated into a current Eorzea edition. Just as Jalzahn explains, it traces the deeds of the Zodiac Braves and if you put it into terms of Eorzea currently, it’s lore is similar to that monster...

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Q21: What kind of rewards will we be able to obtain through “The Hunt?”

A21: You will be able to trade-in allied marks (points obtained by defeating marks) for items such as armor that is currently traded for Mythology tomestones, unique items that can only be obtained from this content, and alexandrites which is required for upgrading your Animus weapon into a Novus weapon.

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http://static.tumblr.com/b262e2a073b..._alexander.jpg

MY BODY IS READY

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Originally Posted by Judge_Xero

[INDENT] http://static.tumblr.com/b262e2a073b..._alexander.jpg

MY BODY IS READY

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http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...lexandrite.jpg

May be a little closer to what to expect.

Well letter is over. Big thanks to the new translator for stepping into Rein's shoes.

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Originally Posted by melflomil

So that means 2.3 will not get released until late July early August?

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It looks like we can expect it third week of June based on the E3 LIVE Letter timing. We're getting basically the two LIVE Letters that lead up to 2.3 in one week.

probably after next FATE, which will probably be last week of June. Then Yoshi will come back to HQ, make final check, and then 2.3 at start of 1st week of Aug.

I'm not sure if I missed it or I'm misunderstanding, but is alexandrite needed for novus? If so, how do we obtain it prior to 2.3's monster hunts?

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Q40: Suzuki, are there any plans to implement any male-specific vanity gear?

A40: Originally, we were planning for the spring wear to be female-specific and the sailor wear to be male-specific. However, we came to a conclusion that the sailor wear looks awesome on females too so we implemented it for the females as well. Don’t worry, we do have plans to implement male-specific vanity gear in the future!

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Well, you better.

I mean, no, I’m not sorry. Male-specific gear that comes to mind, hm… racial clothes that everybody starts with, under-things, and uh… the Valentione-outfit - even that is just a recolor of the CUL AF (after the fact that parts of the questline required participation of male-female couples exclusively). I’m not even sure if there is more, but if there is, it’s not many. Whereas girls got the vanity spring dress but oh, hey, let’s make the counterpart sailor set available for all because it looks great on both guys and gals, yeah, great job. Meanwhile, guys can’t even equip the most basic skirt (really, the most basic example is the Miqo’te racial clothes); and I do have the feeling that when the marriage system comes ‘round, that too will be male-female exclusive as well. I’m not sorry; I get the cultural differences, but this game has been planned for international audience from the start (localisations much??), so I’m not interested in that. Adjust the mentality too, please, and give us options and equal treatment.

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Well, you better.

I mean, no, I’m not sorry. Male-specific gear that comes to mind, hm… racial clothes that everybody starts with, under-things, and uh… the Valentione-outfit - even that is just a recolor of the CUL AF (after the fact that parts of the questline required participation of male-female couples exclusively). I’m not even sure if there is more, but if there is, it’s not many. Whereas girls got the vanity spring dress but oh, hey, let’s make the counterpart sailor set available for all because it looks great on both guys and gals, yeah, great job. Meanwhile, guys can’t even equip the most basic skirt (really, the most basic example is the Miqo’te racial clothes); and I do have the feeling that when the marriage system comes ‘round, that too will be male-female exclusive as well. I’m not sorry; I get the cultural differences, but this game has been planned for international audience from the start (localisations much??), so I’m not interested in that. Adjust the mentality too, please, and give us options and equal treatment.

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BreathlessTao is spot-on! I think it's wonderful that there is a lot of options for female characters in-game, but more and more one is starting to realise how there's not nearly as many options for male characters as there is for female. I'm not sure if you noticed, but people either gender like to show off style the way they want it...

Or, even, marry the gender they want (but that's a whole other rant that needs to be had...).

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Well, you better.

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nah, boys are inferior.

You want skirts on guys? I don't think we really need crossdressing....

everyone should wear skirts

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Originally Posted by Tetsuya

If that Paladin Weapon was really the Novus Upgrade then it is really disappointing that it's simply another Recolour+Glow Effect...

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Novus isn't the final product either.

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Originally Posted by Radacci

probably after next FATE, which will probably be last week of June. Then Yoshi will come back to HQ, make final check, and then 2.3 at start of 1st week of Aug.

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The next LIVE Letters are both from E3 second week of June as advertised in this morning's Letter. Parts 1 and 2 of 2.3 Preview. Seeing as both the previous major updates took place more or less immediately following the second LIVE Letter it's safe to assume 2.3 is the week of June 16th. Likely June 18th if not the following Wednesday (25th).

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Originally Posted by Lithera

You want skirts on guys? I don't think we really need crossdressing....

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Why not? The skirt+tank gear combo I see often is great (and looks pretty unisex).

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Originally Posted by Seif

Repairs to 199% is certainly a right direction now if only it wouldn't require switching to all those classes to repair each piece through cumbersome menus!!

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You can get a less cumbersome menu by opening the Repair action through the Actions & Traits menu. It looks (almost) the same as the NPC mender, and you can just select categories and mash "repair all" (though you have to repeat it for each of the 7 repair classes). The problem is if you have any damaged item in a category that your crafter can't yet repair -- it'll refuse to repair everything, instead of only repairing what is possible.

You can do it very fast on a controller if you have all your crafting gear sets and the repair window on a crossbar.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

You want skirts on guys? I don't think we really need crossdressing....

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Would you be upset with a kilt? I mean, most people joke that it's basically a skirt, but few *seriously* consider it cross-dressing.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

You want skirts on guys? I don't think we really need crossdressing....

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/c2ae0b91b4c/
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/56db9ba0531/

And the craftable i90 recolors.

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Originally Posted by Kovensky

You can get a less cumbersome menu by opening the Repair action through the Actions & Traits menu. It looks (almost) the same as the NPC mender, and you can just select categories and mash "repair all" (though you have to repeat it for each of the 7 repair classes). The problem is if you have any damaged item in a category that your crafter can't yet repair -- it'll refuse to repair everything, instead of only repairing what is possible.

You can do it very fast on a controller if you have all your crafting gear sets and the repair window on a crossbar.

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Holy crap, that's the best thing I've seen all night.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

You want skirts on guys? I don't think we really need crossdressing....

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I'm a cross dresser. Just what is your problem with it?

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Originally Posted by JemC

I'm a cross dresser. Just what is your problem with it?

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inb4 the, look at how "PC" I am contest!

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Originally Posted by Kovensky

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/c2ae0b91b4c/
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/56db9ba0531/

And the craftable i90 recolors.

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That's not cross dressing that's a mail skirt. A functional alternative to the steel codpieces etc. on full sets of plate armor. I also have no problem with kilts, but I don't call them skirts. I have Scottish heritage.

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Originally Posted by Tetsuya

Doesn't really justify for being lazy to do something new with the Weapons instead of just changing some sort of Colour and Glow.

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Personally, I'm more concerned about the methods of obtaining Alexandrite (aside from Hunts) at this point. The aesthetic concern is something that can be addressed once we actually see the new weapon in action.

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Originally Posted by Tetsuya

Doesn't really justify for being lazy to do something new with the Weapons instead of just changing some sort of Colour and Glow.

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I mean what do you expect at this point. Recycle it and throw a glow on has been their method of showing "This weapon is stronger" since the original +1 relics.

Nevermind the fact that most of the end-game armors are either recycled models or shared between multiple classes as well.

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Originally Posted by Tetsuya

Doesn't really justify for being lazy to do something new with the Weapons instead of just changing some sort of Colour and Glow.

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My Summoner Book changed a lot switching to Atma. There are a lot of changes underneath the glow effects. It's mainly just the overall shape of the weapons that hasn't changed.

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

I mean, no, I’m not sorry. Male-specific gear that comes to mind, hm… racial clothes that everybody starts with, under-things, and uh… the Valentione-outfit - even that is just a recolor of the CUL AF

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Man, I am still po'd about that. I didn't expect to be able to dress my character up in a frilly skirt, but I expected some sort of cute frilly/heart shaped apron at least. A recolour of an existing item when female characters got something genuinely unique was really annoying. Same deal with the spring dress. I assumed that there would be a cute spring (not nautical) themed set for guys too. I'm not asking for skirts (though I don't care if that's the route they choose to take) but I want there to be equal numbers of UNIQUE items.

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Originally Posted by dannycookies

I'm not sure if I missed it or I'm misunderstanding, but is alexandrite needed for novus? If so, how do we obtain it prior to 2.3's monster hunts?

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Hunts wont be the only way to get it. Can probably get it from retainer, treasure maps. Rare drop from primals, or such.

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Originally Posted by Tetsuya

If that Paladin Weapon was really the Novus Upgrade then it is really disappointing that it's simply another Recolour+Glow Effect...

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It's the relic wep, that you make stronger, through various means. you don't remodel it.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

You want skirts on guys? I don't think we really need crossdressing....

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Skirts were traditionally male clothing...Kilt is a variation.
And dont confuse your personal opinion, with what lots of other ppl may want.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

The next LIVE Letters are both from E3 second week of June as advertised in this morning's Letter. Parts 1 and 2 of 2.3 Preview. Seeing as both the previous major updates took place more or less immediately following the second LIVE Letter it's safe to assume 2.3 is the week of June 16th. Likely June 18th if not the following Wednesday (25th).

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I dont think they are going to bring 2.3, within 2weeks after 2.28.
But well i meant July, not August. I was guessing shortly after the FATE at end of June.
There wouldnt be much to talk about, if 2.3 came before FATE. since it would be to soon to make any announcements about 2.4, or even 2,35 or such, for that matter.
But then again, they are probably gonna release any information regarding 2.3 at E3 anyway.

So sad they can't even keep their promised vague release months now either, with 2.28 being pushed back to June 2.3 most likely delayed until the end of July if not the beginning of August, guess it really was a mistake to get another 6 month sub.

2.28 is a largely QoL patch. It's delay won't necessarily affect 2.3. I don't see why they wouldn't release two patches in 3 weeks. They way their system works they cant easily roll two patches into one and it doesn't make sense to delay 2.3 just for the sake of spacing out the patches. The only reason I can see would be to maybe give people time to work on PVP progression in prep for Frontlines and that isn't the greatest excuse.

I heard that was just the first half, it had me semi interested and not full.

That's really disheartening....they pushed back 2.28 twice now. :/ ...
Did they say why?
Well it still gives people MORE time to get Atma's and a handful of people have their first one by now
lmao, people are already working on another or more. That sucks. I hope this doesn't really effect
2.3 status.

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Originally Posted by Roris

So sad they can't even keep their promised vague release months now either, with 2.28 being pushed back to June 2.3 most likely delayed until the end of July if not the beginning of August, guess it really was a mistake to get another 6 month sub.

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This is another reason why I do manual subs and not have auto-renewal or paid in advance.

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Originally Posted by ExponentialDecay

everyone should wear skirts

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With the lalafels around I'm not convinced anyone should.

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Originally Posted by Roris

So sad they can't even keep their promised vague release months now either, with 2.28 being pushed back to June 2.3 most likely delayed until the end of July if not the beginning of August, guess it really was a mistake to get another 6 month sub.

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Why would you feel 2.3 will get pushed back that far from just a handful of days (7) that 2.8 is getting delayed?

2.28 was never delayed. They pushed the Novus upgrade from 2.25 TO 2.28. I wish they had elaborated more on the delay other than saying office issues lol I don't think it'll affect 2.3 though unless 2.3 is somehow idling waiting for the QA team to finish with 2.28 and green light it.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I wish they had elaborated more on the delay other than saying office issues lol

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My personal experience with vague terms like 'office issues' is usually people taking vacation time, maternity leave and things like that.
Although, it could be something like an office fire too? That'd be interestingly outside of the norm