FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV

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Any live translation?

2 hours*

But yes, who's translating?

MrHappy's stream has translation, don't know about anyone else.

http://kadgar.net/live/finalfantasyxiv/mrhappy1227

Sorry about the question but, What's the name of the grey-haired guy presenting the Letter?

Q&A update thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/267788

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

Sorry about the question but, What's the name of the grey-haired guy presenting the Letter?

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I think that's the assistant director?

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

Sorry about the question but, What's the name of the grey-haired guy presenting the Letter?

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I believe his name is Toshio Murouchi. More likely known by his forum handle Foxclon.

As far as I know, he's a community manager for the Japanese players of FFXIV. Think Bayohne, except more... japanese. :p

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Originally Posted by Raminax

I believe his name is Toshio Murouchi. More likely known by his forum handle Foxclon.

As far as I know, he's a community manager for the Japanese players of FFXIV. Think Bayohne, except more... japanese. :p

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Thank you!!

Dinosaurs ...... what the heck?

Its new mob models! Embrace it!!

Looks like I'll be celebrating the launch of 3.1 by playing Fallout 4.

Yeah, that release date is pretty unfortunate and what most, if not, all potential Fallout 4 players feared...

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Originally Posted by Magnesium02

Dinosaurs ...... what the heck?

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Its the Brachiosaur from FF6. It was an incredibly powerful random encounter that used Meteor, Ultima and Snort.

Its likely one of the HNM in the exploration missions.

Someone is doing a live translation here on their twitter, giving the jist of the messages that Yoshida is speaking about that isn't on a slide or video.

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

Its the Brachiosaur from FF6. It was an incredibly powerful random encounter that used Meteor, Ultima and Snort.

Its likely one of the HNM in the exploration missions.

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No, dude, it's a dinosaur...from real life.

lmfao@ not needing to clear bismark ex to do ravana

You need to unlock flying every time you enter the Island, why do they have to make everything tedious?

To explore, not everything has to be rush rush rush

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Originally Posted by Xairos

To explore, not everything has to be rush rush rush

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The aether locations aren't exactly going to be randomized, it will get old after the 10th time, especially since you can go every 2 hours.

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Originally Posted by Colorful

The aether locations aren't exactly going to be randomized, it will get old after the 10th time, especially since you can go every 2 hours.

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It's a 30 minutes cooldown, the translator heard incorrectly.

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Originally Posted by Doudousteve

It's a 30 minutes cooldown, the translator heard incorrectly.

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My bad, thanks for the correction.

A BABY TWINTANIA MINION:D

Nothing is new after the 10th time, does that mean everything should be shortcut? Not really
this is like running dungeon, those are the same everytime no one gripes about that.
I understand wanting to jump into the action everytime but this is just a new style of dungeon. Rinse and repeat

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Originally Posted by Xairos

Nothing is new after the 10th time, does that mean everything should be shortcut? Not really
this is like running dungeon, those are the same everytime no one gripes about that.
I understand wanting to jump into the action everytime but this is just a new style of dungeon. Rinse and repeat

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I take it more as a race, first goal being able to fly and then hunting before the other teams get to the monster. There will be a lot of competition, and I welcome this new aspect but at the same time I understand how people can find this problematic.

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Originally Posted by DefendPopPunk

No, dude, it's a dinosaur...from real life.

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Either you are being sarcastic or you didn't follow the link I posted. FF6 had a two "dinosaur type" dragon designs Tyrannosaur (based loosely on the Tyrannosaurus Rex) and Brachiosaur (based loosely on the Diplodocus). The monster's color pallet (tan top, pink underbelly) match up with the coloration used for the Brachiosaur in game.

I like the live letter so far , lots of new stuff to do yay :D

Ugh, Anima Weapons in 3.15?

<Watches Trailer>

Never mind!

Seems like the game is not going in a direction that I like.


New raid, 1 Extreme trial, 2 instances.


While in other patchs we had something like, new raid, 3 extremes, 3 instances.


Yeah, I know that there's other things, but that's what I like. In fact I woud be happy with some lvl 50 instances adjusted to level 60 plus 5 trials and a new raid, or something like that. But just 1 trial...................:(

https://scontent.ftpa1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...06&oe=562F4A0A

Whatever this is, I need it.

https://scontent.ftpa1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...8c&oe=562F0B08

I NEED IIIIT.

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Originally Posted by Elvin

While in other patchs we had something like, new raid, 3 extremes, 3 instances.

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2.1 is the only patch to introduce three Extreme Primals and one Minstrel Ballad fight, 2.2 introduced 2 EX Primals and then it has been one EX Primal up until Heavensward (2.5 didn't have an EX Primal). All patches have only introduced one raid (odd numbers were Crystal Tower, even numbers were Binding Coil). We're getting two dungeons, plus Airship Exploration (assuming that's the trade off, I'm fine with it, especially as it seems you get Esoterics from it).

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Originally Posted by Elvin

Seems like the game is not going in a direction that I like.


New raid, 1 Extreme trial, 2 instances.


While in other patchs we had something like, new raid, 3 extremes, 3 instances.


Yeah, I know that there's other things, but that's what I like. In fact I woud be happy with some lvl 50 instances adjusted to level 60 plus 5 trials and a new raid, or something like that. But just 1 trial...................:(

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This is an odd number patch and those are traditionally catch-up patches. Most patches only introduce 1 "true" extreme, 2.1 was an odd ball with 4 of them and all 4 were done in response to community demand for harder content. Also they often do not reveal all of the trials before patch day.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

2.1 is the only patch to introduce three Extreme Primals and one Minstrel Ballad fight, 2.2 introduced 2 EX Primals and then it has been one EX Primal up until Heavensward (2.5 didn't have an EX Primal). All patches have only introduced one raid (odd numbers were Crystal Tower, even numbers were Binding Coil). We're getting two dungeons, plus Airship Exploration (assuming that's the trade off, I'm fine with it, especially as it seems you get Esoterics from it).

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Aye, your are probably right. I just miss those patches xD

I feel that they are putting to much effor in content that has no value to me, like this verminion thing.

And I'm not very thrilled about Airship Exploration, I have the feeling that it will end being like fates xD

Sadly I was not able to watch the complete livestream. Other than the shield in the trailer was there any other mention of Haurchefant? :)
Did they show his minion or something like that? We seem to get more minions so I hope that they would not push back his release over those :(

Oh and that knife in that persons body :eek: hopefully that will not be deadly.

@Oh its still going on O_O thought its over after I had no screen at twitch

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Originally Posted by Elvin

And I'm not very thrilled about Airship Exploration, I have the feeling that it will end being like fates xD

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Well it will have one thing in common with FATE's. Mobs being immune to Provoke (I think that was confirmed?). NM's and HNM's were confirmed to be in it, so we can probably expect Hunt/Dungeon type mechanics and there's a choice of Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty.

The provoke thing is that you can just use flash to get credit. Only damage gets credit for killskills

I'd worry more about Sky Exploration being more like Hunts, although from what I've gathered a finite number of people enter? That right there is a huge improvement IMO, add to that the fact that some might go off Gathering, and we've got A Ranks (regular trash), S Ranks (NMs), and SS Ranks (HNMs) in the area for fairly standardized groups to take on over 90 minutes, rather than "S Rank is up, summon the entire server". Hopefully they implement some form of force popping as well, though it sounds like it'll either be a race to get to the serious stuff all the same, which is disappointing. They can balance the HNMs to require teamwork though, I imagine.

Still, sounds like an improvement on Hunts IMO, not that that would have been hard to achieve, Hunts are terrible.

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Originally Posted by Xairos

The provoke thing is that you can just use flash to get credit. Only damage gets credit for killskills

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Can't my bad I meant can't

I'm really hyped up about 3.1 now, especially Airship Exploration, but...

No relics until 3.15 -_-

3.15 won't be out until December, might even be late December with their scheduling as of late...

http://i.imgur.com/RNDEnY0.png

Oh my...

That materia change sucks for Tanks, and anyone who melds Piety (is that anyone?), but materia on tomestone/raid gear? Awesome. Stronger crafted gear? Finally.

Ugh.... They're adding NPC outfits---

As cash shop items.

That's disgusting.