Benchmark Trailer

Our first look at new equipment and skills in Stormblood, anyone else a bit excited?

WAR getting a gap closer is really nice. Will PLD get a similar utility? DRK looked like it's getting something similar to Cover too. And BRD and NIN's new DPS skills looked pretty cool. Frog summoning Jutsu!

You beat me to it. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ual_benchmark/



https://clips.twitch.tv/ShyAltruisti...StoneLightning


These skills look cool. Look at SCH.

That machinist flamethrower though!

That feeling when the NIN's frog summon looks more like a classic FF summoning than the egis. XD

WAR dash
NIN frog
SCH fairy link itself?
SAM LB

Anyone notice that titan-egi had legs?

Edit: Actually it doesn't appear to be anything new.

http://i.imgur.com/2wTa0dA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jw6RNfR.png

This is literally gonna be awesome..
Also the minimum spec raises are quite heavy, also the recommended ones

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Originally Posted by ZhaneX

WAR getting a gap closer is really nice. Will PLD get a similar utility? DRK looked like it's getting something similar to Cover too.

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Paladin looks like it is getting a mini-Holy cast. The Dark Knight getting the ability to shield others is a good thing as it allows them to design fights where Cover can be expected.

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

Anyone notice that titan-egi had legs?

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And was larger.

Looks like a fairy cover? I'm curious about the WHM ability too. I can't wait to level to 70.

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

Anyone notice that titan-egi had legs?

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Shut up. Where?

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Originally Posted by RukiaFae

Shut up. Where?

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During the Monk focused section of the benchmark. During the big battle a Lala summoner was using a Titan larger than him.

wonder if the new BLM skill was Burst the ancient lighting spell that we are missing

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

During the Monk focused section of the benchmark. During the big battle a Lala summoner was using a Titan larger than him.

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I looked back. I hope this comes true. He is bigger. But I'm afraid if getting my hopes up.

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

Paladin looks like it is getting a mini-Holy cast. The Dark Knight getting the ability to shield others is a good thing as it allows them to design fights where Cover can be expected.


And was larger.

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Eh.. The Smn was a lala, so saying it looked larger is about on par for size of the lala. Looked normal to me, but ill be watching this over and over again later.

It looks like AST is getting two new cards: A Dark Red one and a White one :B
And is DRK getting a Cover ability? >o>

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

And is DRK getting a Cover ability? >o>

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I suspect it is getting a Rampart/Shadowskin style defensive buff that it can apply to others. This allows them to design content where Cover/this ability can be used to protect targets.

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

Anyone notice that titan-egi had legs?

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Titan always had legs. I think they just had him hovering closer to the ground in the video so it seemed more apparent.

Is the benchmark available to be downloaded somewhere? I couldn't find it.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

Is the benchmark available to download somewhere? I couldn't find it.

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They announced that 90 mins from that marker, so 30 mins more until release.

Sound only command for emote binds when? I want a keybind to laugh while swinging around that flamethrower attack.

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Originally Posted by Anzaman

They announced that 90 mins from that marker, so 30 mins more until release.

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Nice! I'm hoping my potato can handle it :D

With those system requirements, will the PS4 take a hit and become the new PS3?

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

Anyone notice that titan-egi had legs?

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I may have gotten ahead of myself with this comment. I logged in to verify that I was seeing things correctly and upon closer inspection, I believe I was mistaken. I think the only difference is that it's just closer to the ground.

http://i.imgur.com/2wTa0dA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jw6RNfR.png

There's something different about Titan egi.

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Originally Posted by Mature

There's something different about Titan egi.

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The textures probably look better since it seems like it played in DX11 instead of 9

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

Titan always had legs. I think they just had him hovering closer to the ground in the video so it seemed more apparent.

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Truthfully I had forgotten about those little stubs. I still suspected that something was different though since the angle in the video made it look like they had been redesigned, but from what I can tell that isn't actually the case. I suppose I'm glad because if they had taken the time to change the model I would have preferred something more substantial.

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Originally Posted by Anzaman

They announced that 90 mins from that marker, so 30 mins more until release.

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oh that would be cool XD

oooh

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/download/

XD

Anyone willing to do a current lala/titan-egi size comparison?

Those classic Final Fantasy VI monster tho

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Originally Posted by Khemorex

oooh

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/download/

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Neat! Also for those that just want to watch the footage, it's been uploaded to YouTube.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark Trailer

Hmm, was that an AoE damage skill on Paladin? It also looked defensive too.. Defensive Damage :3?

Jealous of the gap closer but maybe that holy skill is pretty cool.

Bunch of other interesting things to note, and of course we have to wait but I just want to @lol for the Ninja skill XD. I want to level them just to be able to slap a toad around sometimes haha.

The work gone into making the settings easy to understand in the benchmark is pretty cool, I liked it was highlighting, exampling and stuff.

I'm more curious if there are any obvious graphical quality improvements to HW.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Hmm, was that an AoE damage skill on Paladin? It also looked defensive too.. Defensive Damage :3?

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My first thought was an upgraded Flash or, more probably, a replacement for Flash if it becomes a Cross-Class skill rather than a Job/Class skill.

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Originally Posted by Vexander

My first thought was an upgraded Flash or, more probably, a replacement for Flash if it becomes a Cross-Class skill rather than a Job/Class skill.

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Yeah maybe, I would like to not touch flash that much but I do see it being useful for the other jobs to have still - especially for lower levels. Like running out of TP, circle radius grab, slight damage reduction, also we could consider making it unique over the other aoe damage enmity spells in that it might have even more radius - making it a really good first grabber skill for all levels, then use your damage aoe for holding and managing large group hate.

I'm not opposed to it existing, but not being able to spam an aoe damage spell like the other tanks makes me feel like a peasant lol.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Yeah maybe, I would like to not touch flash that much but I do see it being useful for the other jobs to have still - especially for lower levels. Like running out of TP, circle radius grab, slight damage reduction, also we could consider making it unique over the other aoe damage enmity spells in that it might have even more radius - making it a really good first grabber skill for all levels, then use your damage aoe for holding and managing large group hate.

I'm not opposed to it existing, but not being able to spam an aoe damage spell like the other tanks makes me feel like a peasant lol.

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Yeah, I agree. Though in all likelihood its probably a new 60-70 skill since those seemed to be what were being showcased in the video. Really curious to see if that BLM spell will be Burst or something else.

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Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

I'm more curious if there are any obvious graphical quality improvements to HW.

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More number of actors and placeables per scene but no new options.

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Originally Posted by Vexander

Yeah, I agree. Though in all likelihood its probably a new 60-70 skill since those seemed to be what were being showcased in the video. Really curious to see if that BLM spell will be Burst or something else.

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It looked like those eye attacks the enemies do - specifically Diablos's (well a little), so you have to make sure they're looking towards the center. It also looked a bit like a demi/gravity/ExDeath sort of thing. Burst would be more lightning aspected right?

Directional for mages... haha. Ss-s-s-STOP MOVING THE MONSTERS, FACE HIM TO MY EYE.. damn Paladin.. I don't actually think that is what it is but lol.. its what it looked like to me. If I had to make a less joke guess I'm going back to the demi/void/gravity stuff.

I'm curious how they'd fit in a new burst spell without it being a oGCD/its own longer cooldown. Maybe connected to thunder procs (but it doesn't look like lightning aspect to me)?

The SCH skill to create a tether between the receiver and the fairy and not the SCH interesting

Are we ignoring the fact that Yojimbo and Daigoro were revealed in that new primal fight? And it looks like the typical add phase for a primal.
http://imgur.com/a/V94Hh