Ethys Asher's Crystarium tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2YkcQmQL-o

I really like all the Amaal'ja (or whatever they'll be called on the First) around here. ;) I hadn't even considered if the Lalas/Dwarves being considered a beast tribe would go the other way and we might have some Eorzean bast tribes be counted among the spoken races on Norvrandt. I wonder what else we'll see.

I was surprised to see Amalj'aa present on the First, as well as their being apparently the general Chocobo/Amaro porters and stablehands. I wonder how they differ on the First, such as whether they have the same distaste for water as on the Source.

Something else I was wondering about was something Ethys didn't cover in that video, though. I noticed it when the maps of the First zones were being shared on Discords and Reddit, but given the existence of Amalj'aa, I suppose this might have much the same possibility:

https://i.imgur.com/427SeGJ.jpg

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Originally Posted by YianKutku

I was surprised to see Amalj'aa present on the First, as well as their being apparently the general Chocobo/Amaro porters and stablehands. I wonder how they differ on the First, such as whether they have the same distaste for water as on the Source.

Something else I was wondering about was something Ethys didn't cover in that video, though. I noticed it when the maps of the First zones were being shared on Discords and Reddit, but given the existence of Amalj'aa, I suppose this might have much the same possibility:

https://i.imgur.com/427SeGJ.jpg

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If there is one constant amongst the Source and Hydaelyn, its Moogle Mail. Also across certain other titles.

I'll need to rewatch the video I somehow completely missed the Amalj'aa there. Though I'm not too surprised given all the player races and moogles are represented.

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Originally Posted by Dualblade

If there is one constant amongst the Source and Hydaelyn, its Moogle Mail. Also across certain other titles.

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Yeah, given stuff like Opera Omnia, Brave Exvius, Kingdom Hearts, and more recently Monster Hunter World, interdimensional Moogles should probably not be as surprising to me as it was.

Ooo! A sneak peak at Veena names! I wonder if the First will have different naming conventions?

Okay we see an Amalj'aa from the first pretty early on (its what I get for using it as background learning while doing other stuff for not seeing this sooner) and is that fur part of the Amalj'aa itself or is it armor? Cause thats still a rather large departure from out current versions of them that have them all mostly looks the same outside of some simple color changes. Actually has me pretty excited for the beast tribes to finally start having some good differences within each tribe.

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Ooo! A sneak peak at Veena names! I wonder if the First will have different naming conventions?

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All the races had different naming conventions from what I saw.

Some examples were Philline and Yalana for female Raen Au Ra and Mei-Tatch and Qeshi-Rae for female Seekers of the Sun.

Someone in the comments section spoted this : https://imgur.com/a/U09wz93

I wonder if we will get to use some of the WoD's special abilities from the trailer? Like the one where their Conjurer enchanted the Ranger's arrow with fire energy (1.0 CNJ used to have access to all 6 elemental magicks, including En-spells, like Enfire).

I also wonder if Vrtra/Azdaja fled from, or were captured and brought to The First, by Allagans. Given there are Dragons on the First and Midgardsrmr, the father of all Dragons came to the Source after the 13 shards split.

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I wonder if we will get to use some of the WoD's special abilities from the trailer? Like the one where their Conjurer enchanted the Ranger's arrow with fire energy (1.0 CNJ used to have access to all 6 elemental magicks, including En-spells, like Enfire).

I also wonder if Vrtra/Azdaja fled from, or were captured and brought to The First, by Allagans. Given there are Dragons on the First and Midgardsrmr, the father of all Dragons came to the Source after the 13 shards split.

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As Ethys speculated in his Il Mheg Tour, those 'dragons' seem more like 'winged Lizards' evolved from scalekin rather than the sentient species that exist on the Source. An example of convergent evolution perchance.

well remember, amaljaa were actually allied with uldah before whatever falling out that labelled them as 'lesser' happened, so maybe in the first 'beast' tribes arent as stigmatized as it is on the source and those tribes may be a bit more insular but still able to interact with the cities peacefully?

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I wonder if we will get to use some of the WoD's special abilities from the trailer? Like the one where their Conjurer enchanted the Ranger's arrow with fire energy (1.0 CNJ used to have access to all 6 elemental magicks, including En-spells, like Enfire).

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I really can't remember the name of that feature but it was present in FF14 V1. With ARR they removed it and we got the Limit Beak instead.

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I really can't remember the name of that feature but it was present in FF14 V1. With ARR they removed it and we got the Limit Beak instead.

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Battle Regimens. Almost positive that's what the CGI trailer was referencing and not any Enfire—which I honestly don't remember being a thing for players in 1.X for all my time there.

The basic gist of Battle Regimens, if memory serves, was you stopped all action (since you know you had to hit a button and consume stamina for every action including what would be considered an "auto-attack" nowadays!) and entered a sub menu to queue up an action. When every party member finished queuing the action they wanted, in the order they wanted, it unleashed a devastating attack that often times had other potent enfeebling effects.

I was worried that the development team would struggle to make a city even more impressive than Kugane, though my concerns have been alleviated. The Crystarium looks incredible!

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Battle Regimens. Almost positive that's what the CGI trailer was referencing and not any Enfire—which I honestly don't remember being a thing for players in 1.X for all my time there.

The basic gist of Battle Regimens, if memory serves, was you stopped all action (since you know you had to hit a button and consume stamina for every action including what would be considered an "auto-attack" nowadays!) and entered a sub menu to queue up an action. When every party member finished queuing the action they wanted, in the order they wanted, it unleashed a devastating attack that often times had other potent enfeebling effects.

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I think WHM and BLM had access to En- spells at some point, but I'm not positive.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

I think WHM and BLM had access to En- spells at some point, but I'm not positive.

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Having played both Conjurer and Thaumaturge and later WHM & BLM when they were introduced in 1.20, I am almost certain this is not the case. My memory is obviously fallible, but I also can't find any evidence of it on the internet (albeit, it's difficult to find good sources for 1.0-1.19).

Thaumaturge primarily dealt Umbral and Astral damage, with a weird set of buffs (including a sort of "reflect" in Sytgian Spikes, a heal+regen combo with Sacrifice [which also might've been the lowest level heal too!]) and cast in a conal AoE. They also got a few enfeebling effects and absorption spells, as well a few interesting abilities that copied enfeeblements on them to their target or copied their target's elemental resistances, etc. The latter one in particular, iirc, was how Thaumaturge was able to solo many of the NMs when they were added—Dodore in particular comes to mind. In 1.20, all of this changed as it became closer to ARR's interpretation of THM/BLM; the biggest change in ARR was Fire being the "strongest" spell in 2.0 and not Thunder.

Conjurer could cast any of the six elements, and cast in a circular AoE. They primarily had much of the WHM kit we know from ARR onward; Cleric Stance, Stoneskin, Protect, Shell, specific status removal spells (Paralyna, Blindna, etc.). They also got the elemental DoT series of spells as well as Ancient Magic with names taken from FFXI. They had higher tier of Raise spells, that I honestly don't remember what they did and had other utility such as rendering a target neutral to all elements, pulling corpses toward you, or casting spells with no cast time for a short period (and casting while moving!). Of course, in 1.20 when WHM was added, this was slimmed down into the kit we know today—Stone, Aero, Cleric Stance, Protect, Repose, Shroud of Saints (now named Lucid Dreaming for us). Oh, and cure spells, of course. Conjurer was the one who got the "Cure" line of spells.

Man I miss Sacred Prism's ability to turn any spell into an AoE....