Leaked 4.0 Preliminary Class changes

Appearently a Square Enix employee did not take account security very seriously. Japanese Patch Notes abount incoming class changes have found their way to the internet and I tried translating them to the best of my ability(which ist not very good sadly =/). As we all know, this is SEs attempt at keeping class skills at a comparable amount to what we have now, while also making their core mechanic more tolerant towards failures. And from what I can tell, this is not nearly what I would have expected.

Blackmage
We felt Blackmages were forced to move out of Area of Effects too often, leading to a higher degree of damage lost than we initially intended.
- Ley Lines will now link Blackmages to their current target, significantly reducing damage taken from those targets.
- Fire has been reduced to a single spell, dealing increased damage in relation to the caster's mana spent.
- Casting Thunder while under the effect of Umbral Ice will now result in electrocution and cause paralysis for 10 seconds.

Ninja
- Mudras are now subject to global cooldowns. This is to prevent evil rabbits from showing up too often on newer players.
- Both posions now leave a damage over time effect on their targets. Hitting a target suffering from Kiss of the Wasp posion while using Kiss of the Viper, will now result in increased damage, and vice versa. We felt poisons were not implemented very well, so our new poison swap mechanic will compensate for that.

Dragoon
- Dragoons will get 2 new tiers to their main combo chains which will trigger randomly. Both new tiers do exactly the same thing, they do have different positional conditions however, the same way Fang and Claw and Wheeling Thrust work. We ran out of new ideas for Dragoons, so instead we built upon our most popular Heavensward Dragoon mechanic, going more in-depth with it.

Monk
We felt Monks were feeling too stationary in combat. To compensate, we increased the amount of positional conditions specifically for this class. Other physical damage dealing classes ramain unaffected from this change.
- Added inter-cardinal direction positionals, up to a total of 6 possible striking positions. One position for each of the Monk's main skills.
- Missing a positional condition will result in Greased Lightning wearing off.
- Greased Lightning no longer has a duration timer.

Machinist
Yes, we heared you! Gauss Barrels will no longer clumsily deform your weapons. All Machinist weapon skinns have been replaced by uniform-looking Gauss Barrels.
- In order to reduce the amount of skills required, Slug Shot and Clean Shot have been removed from the game.
- Split Shot now has a 50% chance to trigger Bullet Hell, increasing the amount of damage dealt by the next Spit Shot to 200% and removing it's casting time.
- Reaload and Quick Reload were removed from the game, since the new Machinist weapon does not require ammunition.
- Wildfire no longer has a duration. Instead it now automatically waits for invincibility frames before triggering.

Astrologian
- To make handling cards more manageable, Bole, Balance, Arrow and Spear have been removed.
- Collective Unconscious now also includes the effects from Synastry, Time Dilation, Lightspeed and Essential Dignity. The respective skills were removed.
- Malefic and Malefic II were removed. Stella has always been intended to be Astrologian's main spell for dealing damage.

Warrior
- when under the effect of Uncontrollable, Inner Beast or Berserk, Warriors become dominated, attacking random enemies or party members.

Paladin
- Flash now takes a screenshot

Scholar
- The effect of Cleric Stance has been implemented into the classe's core, and can no longer be removed. To compensate the amount of healing lost, AI of fairy companions has been greatly improved and automatized.
- Healing and supporting spells are now integrated into Eos' and Selene's arsenal of spells.

Bard
- Mage's Ballad, Foe Requiem and Army's Paeon now correctly root bards in place and activate /songbird.
- We felt bards in Heavensward were still too mobile in comparison to other ranged classes. Casting times and damage dealt have been increased by 150%.

Whitemage
- To increase feeling of elemental closeness, Stone I-III can only be cast in areas where actual stones are available.
- Light effects and sound volume of Holy have been increased by 200%.

Summoner
- Broil has been removed from the game
- Carbuncles can now be summoned in up to 16 million different color styles!
- Summoning spells have been removed. Carbuncles and Egis are called by typing /summon "Carbuncle Name" in chat.
- Each Carbuncle color variation has to be given an individual name for summoning purposes.
- Summoner's Auto-Attack has been renamed into Broil.
- Pets now randomly switch behavior types during combat.

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General
In order to increase the value of parry, all other stats have been removed from tanking gear.

You almost had me for a minute there.

I actually like the sound of the Ninja poison swap mechanic ....

Isn't Broil a sch skill? O_o

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Originally Posted by Xelanar

Paladin
- Flash now takes a screenshot

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This made my day xD

A guy in a similar thread made a google doc with "new patches" perhaps you could collaborate with him :D
You flash on gave me an idea- "Flash now requires an update to display content".

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Originally Posted by Xelanar

General
In order to increase the value of parry, all other stats have been removed from tanking gear.

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To increase the value of Parry, we removed Accuracy from all tanking gear!

April Fool...? Summoner and Paladin made it super obvious. B3 I-I wasn't fooled by the rest, h-honest...! ;u;
*Cries in corner*

"Flash now removes all clothing and makes you run uncontrolled across the screen."

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Originally Posted by Ransom

"Flash now removes all clothing and makes you run uncontrolled across the screen."

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http://i.imgur.com/uRAr49L.gif
Like that? ^

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Originally Posted by SpiritMuse

Isn't Broil a sch skill? O_o

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Yes, it is ^_^.

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Originally Posted by Ignnis

A guy in a similar thread made a google doc with "new patches" perhaps you could collaborate with him :D

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Sadly I noticed that one too late. I would have posted there instead, had I known earlier /.

Yoshi lied, Battle System Changes are actually a bigger change than we expected.

FFXIV 1.0, then FFX|V 2.0 and 3.0 but with the newest expansion we've decided to bring back a Roman Numeral that was replaced with a |. Introducing FFXI(-V) Battle System 4.0.

Roles have been changed and certain jobs removed completely, as we explain it we hope it becomes clear as to why these changes were made.

-Summoner will now be able to Summon a multitude of Primals however they will all share the same 1min ability cooldown.

--Because these abilities are so powerful a SMN's "Rotation" has been reduced to pressing 2 buttons. One for the Primal and two to use their ability.

-Machinist are now Corsair, using guns and cards and "pets" have been removed, because of this Astrologian will be removed from the game and any players who have leveled Astrologian will have their xp given to Corsair **If you are already 60 MCH(COR) the xp will add up and you will start at a higher level as long as you have the 4.0 expansion enabled.

-White Mage is now the only "Support" class and all other jobs with healing abilities will play the role of "support support"

-Scholar will no longer have pets, replaced with Light Art/Dark Arts giving them access to all Conjurer or THM skills under lv 30 depending on which stance they are in

-Dark Knight is now a DPS but due to these changes their Main Arm "Great-sword" has been replaced with a Scythe and they will no longer be able to equip said Main Arm

-Red Mage job being introduced in 4.0 will be like SCH, with a sword, but the sword itself won't be of much use in a majority of party content

-Samurai is still a DPS

-Paladin is now the only "Tank" class and all other jobs that can tank will play the role of "Support Tank"

-Ninja is now a Support Tank but they no longer have access to Rogue abilities. Rogue abilities will be placed on the job Thief and be a new DPS job.

-Warrior is now a Support Tank, they can still take a hit but all means of personal damage mitigation have been removed.

-Dragoon's will be given a pet but due to time constraints they will borrow's the pet model of the SCH's pets until a proper Dragon Welp is made.

--The pet is just a motivational speaker, to make the Dragoon feel better when they KO in combat or jump into an AOE. Please focus on what your pet says rather than the party for a better gaming experience

-Monk relic will now be a belt (There are currently no plans to make visible "waist" models)

-Black Mage will now have access to all 6 elements

--Their effects will all be the same and there are no plans to change the current elemental system in PVE

-Bard job will only learn songs from their 30+ quest line which will need different instruments in their secondary in order to use.

--You can't change gear during combat so choose wisely which secondary you equip before combat!

This concludes the changes to FFX|V which will now be refereed to as FFXI(-V) in order to prevent any further confusion we will now show the roles of each job in the game.

Tank: Paladin

Support Tank: Warrior, Ninja

Support: White Mage

Support Support: Scholar, Red Mage, Summoner(If you cross-class skills)

DPS: Corsair, Bard, Black Mage, Monk, Samurai, Summoner, Dragoon, Dark Knight, Thief, Warrior, Ninja, Scholar, Red Mage

The following changes have also been made to party composition in Duty Finder Content:

8-person content has been change from 2 Tanks, 2 Support and 4 DPS to 1 tank, 1 Support and 6 DPS

24-man content has been changed from 1 Tank, 2 Suppport and 5 DPS to 1 Tank*, 1 Support* and 6 DPS.

*Tank and Support will only be for Party A, Party's B and C will be "Support Tank" and "Support Support".

hahahahaha

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Originally Posted by Soge01

http://i.imgur.com/uRAr49L.gif
Like that? ^

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Exactly like that.


Only naked.


And preferably female.



Bard: The dragon Smaug can now be killed only by bards. Bards with 1000+ acc can now one-shot Smaug.

Dragoon: The command '/canyoudig it?' has been added. When active, all players in a range of 20 yalms will hear the 'Shaft' theme.

Summoner: Egis may now be glamoured as characters from 'My Little Pony.'

Ninja: Character will now randomly /shout lines from 'Naruto.'

Machinist: Turrets now display the Autobot symbol. "Truck Not Monkey!!!"

i was fine up until the paladin one, and then i completely lost my mind

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Originally Posted by Xelanar

Astrologian
Malefic and Malefic II were removed. Stella has always been intended to be Astrologian's main spell for dealing damage.

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All I want is for Stella to be useful. It such a beautiful move

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Originally Posted by Soge01

April Fool...? Summoner and Paladin made it super obvious. B3 I-I wasn't fooled by the rest, h-honest...! ;u;
*Cries in corner*

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Blm thunder made it obvious from the start for me...he talks about how blm has to move alot and that ley line with bind to them and because they have to move, they lose dmg, but then he talks about when you're in umbral form, if you cast thunder, you get paralized for 10sec..

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Originally Posted by Cellenseres

This made my day xD

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I was fooled until I read that xD

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Originally Posted by Airget

Snip

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Don't talk to loud... People in this forums still think this game should be FFXI-2 or turn into a clone of FFXI...

OP where muh Dark Knight leaks?

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Originally Posted by Bloody

OP where muh Dark Knight leaks?

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Right there! ^_^

lol nice Notes :D

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Originally Posted by Xelanar

Paladin
- Flash now takes a screenshot

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This makes the joke too obvious. You shouldn't have put this in.

Is this real?

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Originally Posted by Rin_Sato

Is this real?

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"Flash now takes a screenshot."

That is so obvious, it completely reveals the deception.

Saw something different for Monk...

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Monk has gained the skill [Auto-Battle]. While active, based on stance and position, the Monk will use the appropriate skill. For instance, when opening in base form, [Bootshine] will be used regardless of position; from (improved) Opo-opo form, [Dragon Kick] will be used from the side and [Bootshine] from anywhere else; in Raptor, [Twin Snakes] will be used if on the flank and [True Strike] if anywhere else; in Coeurl, [Snap Punch] will be used from the flanks and [Demolish] from anywhere else. Another relevant weaponskill may be queued at any time to override Auto-battle for the given GCD, and Auto-battle may be turned off at any time.

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Actually, that really wouldn't change anything...

Correction:

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Monk weaponskills have been simplified into Light, Strong, and Special attacks that combo continuously in a 3-part cycle. All consecutive skills carry a combo bonus on or until the next attack allowing for, respectively, brief additional movement and reach, an added interruption modifier, and added evasion during the attack animation in addition to the individual skill's effect, per any of three choices per the three cyclical combo-steps. Monk may now be played with a reticle based interface and is known to have actually fluid and sensible animations.

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I'm looking forward to these changes. Especially Warrior's "uncontrollable" buff making them literally uncontrollable. :D

And stone spells requiring nearby stones gave me a good laugh.

Good stuff.
(your ideas were better than mine)

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Originally Posted by Xelanar

Paladin
- Flash now takes a screenshot

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It took me that long to figure out this was an April fools joke. Good one!