Live Letter LXXXVI 86 Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/live/fydpys-...PFQzTyv_sOzRxI

What's your opinion on upcoming content this patch? I'm always excited to see what QoL improvements are on their way.

Here's also the Trailer for 7.2 if you missed it.

https://i.ibb.co/20zd3d4M/Screenshot...-14-053301.png

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In my opinion, 7.2 will once again offer NOTHING that actually gives us something to do.
Everything is being postponed until 7.2x, and that pisses me off. After many years, I've reached the point where I'm just angry at how they're starving FF14 players while simultaneously draining their money.

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Originally Posted by Heavenchild

In my opinion, 7.2 will once again offer NOTHING that actually gives us something to do.
Everything is being postponed until 7.2x, and that pisses me off. After many years, I've reached the point where I'm just angry at how they're starving FF14 players while simultaneously draining their money.

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Remember when they said they will "SPARE NO EXPENSES" into FF14?

What a flat out lie lmfao.

The studio does nothing but lie in their live letters and interviews.

They always throw out some lie like "improved encounter design" to hook players with copium.

The new Arcadion gear looks really cool! People looking for classic fantasy gear will be complaining again xD

So far, the raid tier is mainly around the combat and it is too early to tell whether they live up to the 'improved encounter design'. This is something we will need to see for ourselves.

They have also just gone over PvP and Borderlands Secure. How the map is going to play out in practice is yet to be seen, however, the addition of role actions is intriguing, especially with comet, being a cast time which cannot be interrupted. A real risk Vs reward. Yoshi did hover over the action and I did briefly see 20,000 as a number, which can safely be assumed to be the damage.

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Originally Posted by Kunzite_Lockhart

The new Arcadion gear looks really cool! People looking for classic fantasy gear will be complaining again xD

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Ironically, just after yo posted this they revealed the tomestone gear, much more fantasy inspired.

The tome gear looks to be FFIX-inspired, to varying degrees, though WHM gets very classic WHM robes and I don't recall any of the characters having those. Sadly it seems to have been used as the base for casters as well and just recoloured to kinda-sorta Vivi instead of actually giving us a Vivi outfit.


(will update with pictures in a moment) ...never mind, looks like Discord has stopped making the URLs findable.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

... though WHM gets very classic WHM robes and I don't recally any of the characters having those.

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Likely in reference to Garnet very early on using WHM robes as a disguise.

That said, now Square has no excuse when it comes to AF gear being something sacred that other jobs can't have; now all healers have WHM AF gear.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

The tome gear looks to be FFIX-inspired, to varying degrees, though WHM gets very classic WHM robes and I don't recall any of the characters having those.

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The closest you get is at the beginning of the game, Garnet has the robes which resemble the classic WHM look whilst she is trying to escape the castle. That is, until Vivi sets them on fire accidentally and they are ditched.

Anyone notice that the astral fire timer is gone and the cast time of fire 4 is now shorter than its recast

That’s a massive difficulty nerf for BLM

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Originally Posted by TheDustyOne

That said, now Square has no excuse when it comes to AF gear being something sacred that other jobs can't have; now all healers have WHM AF gear.

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They have been using the classic WHM red-and-white colour scheme as generic healer colour scheme all along, though I'm trying to think if there's anything quite so blatantly WHM-styled.

Meanwhile, everyone else seems to be stealing what should be perfect RDM gear. First the Rinascita DPS design, then healers in Yuweyawata, now the ranged tome gear is taunting us.

Wow.

Does someone just used weaponry at distance to specifically attack the WoL instead of vainly trying to defeat them in a fight ?

Are we going to get the most intelligent (or least moronic) antagonist to date ?

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Anyone notice that the astral fire timer is gone and the cast time of fire 4 is now shorter than its recast

That’s a massive difficulty nerf for BLM

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Booooooooooo.

Square, I like that BLM was the long cast time job, don't ruin that identity.

7.0 ruined BLM anyway, but still, don't ruin it further.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

They have been using the classic WHM red-and-white colour scheme as generic healer colour scheme all along, though I'm trying to think if there's anything quite so blatantly WHM-styled.

Meanwhile, everyone else seems to be stealing what should be perfect RDM gear. First the Rinascita DPS design, then healers in Yuweyawata, now the ranged tome gear is taunting us.

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They've always had them WHM-coded for lack of a better term, but they never used the red triangle strips outside of AF gear from memory. This is as blatant as it's been.

And as a RDM, yeah it hurts seeing everyone get better feathered caps than us.

Aha, found the URLs for the tome gear, though they'll probably stop working in a day or two.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...20b52c00bddde&

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Arcadion gear:

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Anyone notice that the astral fire timer is gone and the cast time of fire 4 is now shorter than its recast

That’s a massive difficulty nerf for BLM

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Huh, yet another nuking other jobs rather than just nerfing the 1 outlier, the great stupidly of "balancing" in CBU3 strikes again!

I have to leave soon for work, but so far it seems neat
I'll have to give everything a closer watch when I'm available to but that gear is nice
Is it confirmed to be the tomestone gear? We are getting a new dungeon, I believe, so I thought it would be from there

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Originally Posted by Hanayumi

Huh, yet another nuking other jobs rather than just nerfing the 1 outlier, the great stupidly of "balancing" in CBU3 strikes again!

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They have already stated that that they are nerfing Pictomancer, assuming that is the job you mean.

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Originally Posted by CVXIV

Is it confirmed to be the tomestone gear? We are getting a new dungeon, I believe, so I thought it would be from there

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According to unofficial translations from the Reddit discord, they are the tome gear sets.

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Originally Posted by Fagotura

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Don't forget to call them "Left Swing" and "Not Left Swing" because samey names to f with players on a kindergarten level are also part of the PvE (TM) Mechanics (C).

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Originally Posted by CVXIV

Is it confirmed to be the tomestone gear? We are getting a new dungeon, I believe, so I thought it would be from there

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The Discord translation channel says it's the tomestone gear and seems to indicate that Yoshida referred to it as tomestone gear, so probably yes, although I do agree that having it come from the dungeon would make sense. I guess it's all Alexandria one way or another though.

The usual pattern for patch cycle dungeon gear would suggest we'll be getting recycled dungeon gear since it's an even-numbered patch and they have new designs being added elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Mikey_R

According to unofficial translations from the Reddit discord, they are the tome gear sets.

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Thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

The Discord translation channel says it's the tomestone gear and seems to indicate that Yoshida referred to it as tomestone gear, so probably yes, although I do agree that having it come from the dungeon would make sense. I guess it's all Alexandria one way or another though.

The usual pattern for patch cycle dungeon gear would suggest we'll be getting recycled dungeon gear since it's an even-numbered patch and they have new designs being added elsewhere.

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Yeah now that you mention it I forgot that's what they typically do, and we got unique sets last time. Considering where we're going in the dungeon, I thought it'd make sense to have them drop there but you're right

I waited all this time for Cosmic Exploration only to be glorified levequests? Great. AND you're making me wait another month for it, and then another month for the field exploration zone? There is legitimately zero reason for me to come back to the game until June at this point. What an absolute joke. Five crappy MSQ quests and a raid tier I will only complete once, is not worth an iota of my time right now. It is sad my love for this game just continues to get replaced with more frustration and hate. It is really getting to the point where it's time for me to make my exit permanent. Like actually delete my character of over a decade and have no reason to be tempted to return.

The special site got updated as well:

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/dawntrail/patch_7_2/

• The new Loporrit character in the Cosmic Exploration screenshots seems to have been coloured based on the Namingway minion.

• There's a picture from the dungeon of players fighting the boss, wearing what is presumably the dungeon gear -- it seems to be a recolour of the Lost Allagan sets (available from the Stormblood Centurio vendor) -- and unfamiliar weapons that I'm going to guess are new crafted gear. The equivalent picture for 7.1 has them using Archeo Kingdom crafted weapons.

• I'm not sure where Gerolt is supposed to be, but it's giving me Bozja vibes more than anything. Have we seen that emblem in the top-right background before? It feels familiar but I can't say where from.

Relevant screenshots:

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...ACdxkyCSzQ.jpg

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...Peca6_lmrw.jpg

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

I waited all this time for Cosmic Exploration only to be glorified levequests?

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What else were you envisaging within FFXIV's crafting system? It doesn't seem capable of much beyond some variety of [craft thing] > [hand in thing].

So, they have added to cosmic exploration one of the things people have wanted in Eureka for ages. Level syncing.

I think Yoshi's skirt just glitched out while fighting the Goobbue, a bug I wanted to report for years but could never properly recreate... It has something to do with battle animations, happens all the time on BLM, basically never on WHM...

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

I waited all this time for Cosmic Exploration only to be glorified levequests? Great.

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Player shocked to learn that the crafting and gathering zone consists of crafting and gathering.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

• I'm not sure where Gerolt is supposed to be, but it's giving me Bozja vibes more than anything. Have we seen that emblem in the top-right background before? It feels familiar but I can't say where from.

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The mossy stone walls in the background seem to match the ones from Crescent Isle so he's most likely somewhere there, especially since the weapon quests are tied to the zone.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

What else were you envisaging within FFXIV's crafting system? It doesn't seem capable of much beyond some variety of [craft thing] > [hand in thing].

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What would you like to see changed about it? Hopefully not bringing back the gold saucer minigames

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

Player shocked to learn that the crafting and gathering zone consists of crafting and gathering.



The mossy stone walls in the background seem to match the ones from Crescent Isle so he's most likely somewhere there, especially since the weapon quests are tied to the zone.

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I understand it has that, but it could have been a little more involved. Nothing about what they've shown looks engaging at all. And what's with your nasty attitude? Someone crap in your cereal this morning?

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Originally Posted by Exmo

What would you like to see changed about it? Hopefully not bringing back the gold saucer minigames

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They should add expert crafting during an Any Way the Wind Blows style event. How long you have to finish crafting the item is entirely based on RNG.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

I understand it has that, but it could have been a little more involved. Nothing about what they've shown looks engaging at all.

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But that is what they are asking you. What would be considered 'more involved' to you? What did you expect to see?

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Originally Posted by Exmo

https://www.youtube.com/live/fydpys-...PFQzTyv_sOzRxI

What's your opinion on upcoming content this patch? I'm always excited to see what QoL improvements are on their way.

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Felt very underwhelming. They have shown nothing of interest that will come in 7.2 proper. Occult crescent is in 7.25 and Cosmic Exploration in 7.21.

I already had nothing to do for the past 6 months, and it seems I will also have nothing to do for at least another month... Very disappointed.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

I understand it has that, but it could have been a little more involved. Nothing about what they've shown looks engaging at all.

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It probably is. You saw a preview, not the entire content from start to finish.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

And what's with your nasty attitude? Someone crap in your cereal this morning?

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

What an absolute joke. Five crappy MSQ quests and a raid tier I will only complete once, is not worth an iota of my time right now. It is sad my love for this game just continues to get replaced with more frustration and hate.

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Project much? lol

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Originally Posted by Espon

They should add expert crafting during an Any Way the Wind Blows style event. How long you have to finish crafting the item is entirely based on RNG.

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ngl that would be fun :D

I think they completely turned FF around with this.

They just went all in on Cosmic Exploration and Occult Sanctuary, the raids dont even look like much for glam or mounts, it really feels as if side content became main content.

The biggest issue, AS PER USUAL, is the freaking Schedule.

7.2 Release -> 03/25
Arcadium Release -> One Week Later
Cosmic Exploration -> 04/22
Occult Crescent -> 05/27

ONE WEEK of ONLY MSQ as content. Something people clear in a couple of hours.
And then 20 DAYS with only Arcadium as content, again, content you clear in a couple of hours per week and give weekly lockout.

And then you get Cosmic Exploration, a casual content for Gather/Crafters, something that makes you be engaged for more than a couple hours per day. Just a little bit.
After 30 DAYS after that, you get the combat content for players to grind and spend their time at.

This habit of splitting their content and giving it in small spoonfuls is upsetting because it renders the player unable to genuinely play the game because the content they give lasts a couple hours at best.
Some things need to be released together to keep engagement, stop with this awful spread of schedule, no one like those mini-patches and it cripples the whole sensation of joy and wonder a patch has, because all you make for them to enjoy is ONE OPTION, until they can finally get their whole plate of food MONTHS LATER RELEASE.

So.. if I am reading/seeing things right.. we aren't getting any good content til May?

I was really looking forward to a Bozja-like situation because I enjoyed Bozja and it actually gave me something to do.
I am hanging on by a thread here.
MSQ takes 2 days max then raids are whatever for a once a week thing.. so where is the content?

I can craft, and guess I'll do it, but sitting down and hitting 2-3 macros to watch your character make the same things over and over really isn't sustainable content.
Why was the biggest selling point of 7.2 -- the field operation -- pushed so far out??

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Originally Posted by Pyrrus

Why was the biggest selling point of 7.2 -- the field operation -- pushed so far out??

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By the size of it I can only think that Dawntrail released too early. The sheer amount of content that's packed into Crescent is insane, I came out of that thinking that is basically Dawntrail