Pre 4.1 Interview with Yoshida

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_translation/

Just posted on reddit and thought I'd share here. Some general standouts

• The alliance raid roulette will not include the Ivalice raid.
• The reason they decided to implement "Ultimate" is because the average player skills of those longtime players have increased and players have had less of an opportunity to go through the "dancing experience"
• With the "Team registration system" they are adding in the future, they are considering implementing a rule where your ratings decline after not playing for a certain amount of time. (Feast)
• The future expert roulettes will consist of 4 dungeons and one of the four dungeons will be chosen randomly (note: this does not mean they are adding 4 dungeons each patch).
• The rewards for the alliance raid roulette will be exp, gil, allagan tomestones and 2 mhachi matters which you can trade for grade V materia (note: not VI).
• 4.1 will not have any crafting recipes that are harder to create than the ones added in 4.0.

Here the pictures of the new hairstyles, mounts and minions:

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...a/6a280d47.jpg

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...5/25430601.jpg

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http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...5/d5e10494.jpg

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...d/fd9c9ef3.jpg

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...0929f530-s.jpg

The rewards for the alliance raid roulette will be exp, gil, allagan tomestones and 2 mhachi matters which you can trade for grade V materia (note: not VI)

Is there incentive to do this for 2 tierV materia for those who don't need gil/exp/tomestone? In my opinion, it should have been tierVI, lol.

finally some good looking male hair :D

What the... a koala minion? Now I'm intrigued as to the lore behind that one! :D

Still wondering if Garo is going to end anytime soon.
Kind of expected the 4.1 patch, but they haven't said anything. Hopefully they do plan to announce the end date before it hits rather than just pulling it unceremoniously. If it doesn't get pulled in 4.1, that'll give me a bit more breathing room to hit 60 on the rest of my classes.

Not immensely concerned with them, but kind of wonder where the mounts come from. Both Uznair? Figure the Kojin one is going to be the lame Manta.
Minions are probably Skalla/Uznair I guess?

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Originally Posted by Dark-Saviour

Still wondering if Garo is going to end anytime soon.
Kind of expected the 4.1 patch, but they haven't said anything. Hopefully they do plan to announce the end date before it hits rather than just pulling it unceremoniously. If it doesn't get pulled in 4.1, that'll give me a bit more breathing room to hit 60 on the rest of my classes.

Not immensely concerned with them, but kind of wonder where the mounts come from. Both Uznair? Figure the Kojin one is going to be the lame Manta.
Minions are probably Skalla/Uznair I guess?

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The wolf is from the extreme primal.

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Originally Posted by Neri

Is there incentive to do this for 2 tierV materia for those who don't need gil/exp/tomestone? In my opinion, it should have been tierVI, lol.

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I'm actually not sure if I agree or disagree with that idea, heh, since Tier 6 is rather easy to attain already through things like Hunts, and even moreso the Adventurer in Need, atleast provided you are/can play a Tank class (or Healer once in a blue moon lol), just to name some examples.

But the Stormblood MSQ also showers you in Tier 5 so..... ^^" (and that's not mentioning Tier 6 is effectively impossible to atleast overmeld, so players need Tier 5 more then 6)


As for the topic at hand. Not much for having Minions out, but that shiba inu is tempting me so bad in ways the fox could just dream of XD

God, that new female hair is adorable.

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Originally Posted by Lilseph

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...d/fd9c9ef3.jpg

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OMG I NEED THIS.