The Waiting for "More info" Stage

So still 3 months away from Stormblood and we continue to wait for the usual Benchmark for expansion, 4.0 Relic Armor and new Relic/Anima Weapon info, New 4.0 Skill info, and extra 4.0 info.


When do you think each of these may be released as we wait for June 16th for early access?

My guess is all this stuff is released all at once in May just to have one massive hype month in May leaving June as the "Please Look Forward to it" waiting month where people are just very twitchy to log in on the first second of 4.0 release.

Then have the servers explode and complain Early Access days are wasted due to Servers Exploding from the Flood of players :p

(Still waiting for 3.6 either at the end of this month or early April)

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

So still 3 months away from Stormblood and we continue to wait for the usual Benchmark for expansion, 4.0 Relic Armor and new Relic/Anima Weapon info, New 4.0 Skill info, and extra 4.0 info.


When do you think each of these may be released as we wait for June 16th for early access?

My guess is all this stuff is released all at once in May just to have one massive hype month in May leaving June as the "Please Look Forward to it" waiting month where people are just very twitchy to log in on the first second of 4.0 release.

Then have the servers explode and complain Early Access days are wasted due to Servers Exploding from the Flood of players :p

(Still waiting for 3.6 either at the end of this month or early April)

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Relic armor was confirmed? Can you please post a link to this? Or are you talking about artifact armor?

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Originally Posted by Laerad3993

Relic armor was confirmed? Can you please post a link to this? Or are you talking about artifact armor?

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Artifact Armor but that just another way of calling it Relic Armor considering they are just iconic job theme gears. It is a habit as I have been calling it Relic Armor since 2.0 due to how the theme being Job Exclusive armor based on old FF arts and characters.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

Artifact Armor but that just another way of calling it Relic Armor considering they are just iconic job theme gears. It is a habit as I have been calling it Relic Armor since 2.0 due to how the theme being Job Exclusive armor based on old FF arts and characters.

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All good. I was just going to be surprised I had actually missed anything Relic themed as I thought I was staying on top of it all. No worries :)

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Originally Posted by Laerad3993

All good. I was just going to be surprised I had actually missed anything Relic themed as I thought I was staying on top of it all. No worries :)

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SE is concidering armor to go with the Relic weapon from what I heard.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

SE is concidering armor to go with the Relic weapon from what I heard.

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I remember hearing this too. Especially considering we are getting eureka?

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

SE is concidering armor to go with the Relic weapon from what I heard.

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I mean I'm all for that. I usually have 3/4 of my time left before a new patch after finishing a relic step. I'd love to actually be able to dedicate another month and a half to Relic armor as well.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

SE is concidering armor to go with the Relic weapon from what I heard.

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That is a interesting info but I am concerned about how the quest for it and development of the armor may be handled.

They can make it simple and just make the Relic Weapon and Armor the same quests.

Gonna be the 3 longest months ; ;

To be frank I'll be extremely surprised if they reveal anything substantial before Stormblood's release, other than the usual vague throwaway statements when directly asked something.

"There might maybe be something like this possibly and we'll maybe look into it in future", is the most we'll get

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Originally Posted by Connor

To be frank I'll be extremely surprised if they reveal anything substantial before Stormblood's release, other than the usual vague throwaway statements when directly asked something.

"There might maybe be something like this possibly and we'll maybe look into it in future", is the most we'll get

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Yeah this. Honestly it's not even worth reading the interviews...its just a buncha vague stuff with "maybe in the future" I just wait until patch notes to see what is coming...after all, look what happened to the Ultima fight. D:

We should get a job action trailer in May at some point if they do anything like they did with HW. This also showed ingame footage of AF2 gear. So there's that at least. HW Job Action Trailer

I dont think anything will be revealed and they will leave it all a surprise. There may be a few things here and there but other than that nothing special.

I'm not familiar with the schedules, but not until at least a couple of weeks after the release of Part II of 3.55 is my guess.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

So still 3 months away from Stormblood and we continue to wait for the usual Benchmark for expansion

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Do you have a link to verify that we are getting a new bench mark or just hoping, as I have yet to hear SE say anything about adding another bench mark for 4.0?

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Originally Posted by Nghthawk

Do you have a link to verify that we are getting a new bench mark or just hoping, as I have yet to hear SE say anything about adding another bench mark for 4.0?

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They confirmed a Benchmark for 4.0 on their pre-order stream but did not give a release date.

If I have to guess they're holding it back until near 4.0 release since by then they can start cutting PS3 support and thus get players to test their system so players can adjust their graphics for 4.0.

Current Minimum requirements are not the actual minimum requirements as stated on the Stormblood page and is just "default" info until Benchmark is released and they can actually start testing 4.0 new graphics.

Expect the Minimum requirement Info to be reduced to lower requirements later once 4.0 Benchmark is released.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

So still 3 months away from Stormblood and we continue to wait for the usual Benchmark for expansion, 4.0 Relic Armor and new Relic/Anima Weapon info, New 4.0 Skill info, and extra 4.0 info.

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Don't hold your breath for relic weapon, new 4.0 skills and all 4.0 related gameplay stuff . The fact they don't talk about it speaks volumes.

They already said they'll talk about the new job skills and the whole revamp more in detail around May. My guess is we'll hear about how debuffs will work and potential confirmation on stat retools (Parry and Accuracy) sometime in April.

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Originally Posted by Kit-Kat

Gonna be the 3 longest months ; ;

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I think this sometimes, but then i remember the 5ish months we waited for 3.1 and i think i'ma be okay.

I hate the vague answers that we always get. I'd rather SE did what Blizzard does, that is to say tell us absolutely everything ahead of time. Zones, quests, abilities, combat changes, what dungeons we're going to get, the bosses and their mechanics, and even what the raids we're going to be getting are. I hate surprises and I'd rather know exactly what I'm getting in to way ahead of time.

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Originally Posted by Averax

I think this sometimes, but then i remember the 5ish months we waited for 3.1 and i think i'ma be okay.

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The 5 months waiting for 3.1 wasn't that dragged on for me since with 3.0 release it provided me plenty of things to do during that 5 month wait at a slow pace. Of course now in 3.55 time frame most players would have finished mostly their main tasks they wanted to finish by now thus it is more of wating game by this time.

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Originally Posted by Khalithar

I hate the vague answers that we always get. I'd rather SE did what Blizzard does, that is to say tell us absolutely everything ahead of time. Zones, quests, abilities, combat changes, what dungeons we're going to get, the bosses and their mechanics, and even what the raids we're going to be getting are. I hate surprises and I'd rather know exactly what I'm getting in to way ahead of time.

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Sarcasim like this is why I bring Popcorn to the forums. It human nature to feed on "Hatred" (insert Evil Laugh here)

Jokes aside, I don't want them to spoil everything but I am just discussing about the basic info reveal similar to when 3.0 was near release and SE began releasing the 3.0 Benchmark for graphic testing and the trailer showing 3.0 Job Skills and Relic Gear.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

Then have the servers explode and complain Early Access days are wasted due to Servers Exploding from the Flood of players :p

(Still waiting for 3.6 either at the end of this month or early April)

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This always bothers as they know it's gonna happen but never prepare for it.