What info do hope to see/hear from the PAX east announcements?

[EdwinLi]

I'm hoping for the removal of base classes... fingers crossed

I'm still in the zone that they are only removing base class for future jobs like DK, Mach, and Astro while keeping the current Base classes like GLA, ARC, ROG, and PUG.

[Exodus-E]

I'm hoping for the removal of base classes... fingers crossed

I *really* doubt they will without doing some major re-writes to the overall lore and setting of the game (everyone else that's *not* the PC uses classes).

If anything, it's more likely that we won't rely on base classes anymore post-Lv.30 than removing them outright ...

[Nominous]

An ilvl "compression" a couple of you mentioned would be really lame imo.

iLvl 'compression' would have no effect on the damage that we do, just the item level we see on equipment. From 50-60 you'll still see improvement due to many other influences. Unless they change the stat allocation system, you'll have some extra points to spend. You'll have new traits, and new skills. New gear will be powerful, 'compression' or not. The argument behind it is (as far as I know) so that the item levels don't get too out of control as the game goes forward.

Also, because when you are leveling from 1-40, item levels don't jump around too much. Imagine on expansion though. 1-50 gear would be relatively tame. Then you hit 50, and you'd experience a roughly 70-80 item levels difference from the previous character levels. They'd either have to not give any relevant gear until 60, or they'd have to do some major tuning, in order to keep the same item level trend from 50-60.

[Nominous]

Also, on topic...

I want them to reveal so much, but it's not a live letter. If they treated it like one, then I'd definitely hope for some good info, but I think they'll just be talking about more simple things. That being said...

Release Date (With a surprise of being like... in April)
Benchmark
Maybe a clutch new Job reveal during a new trailer?
New Trailer with ambiguous showings of new skills from all the Jobs.

[Starlord]

I can see at this point, being near spring and all, that we could see a CGI trailer of Heavensward.

[Meier]

Spring is only two weeks away ^^ hoping for a new trailer.

[Drakkaelus]

Probably already been said but if I can just get a release date and some info on the Dark Knight, I'll be happy.

[Nalien]

I'm hoping for the removal of base classes... fingers crossed

Why? That would have pretty much no impact on gameplay in the slightest, since we don't use them anyway, and as such would only really be a waste of development time, since they'd have to go back and re-write much of the lore and throw away many of the existing quests. It would really be quite a lot of work for no real benefit whatsoever.

I'd much rather see them give us a Freelancer system for Classes to boost them into relevance should people want; Players get their Thief, their Carbuncle, etc.

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

Also, on topic...

I want them to reveal so much, but it's not a live letter. If they treated it like one, then I'd definitely hope for some good info, but I think they'll just be talking about more simple things. That being said...

Release Date (With a surprise of being like... in April)
Benchmark
Maybe a clutch new Job reveal during a new trailer?
New Trailer with ambiguous showings of new skills from all the Jobs.

YoshiP has already said that there won't be any new fourth job, so don't bother getting your hopes up about something that won't happen.

[Chiramu]

Spring is only two weeks away ^^ hoping for a new trailer.

If you go by the seasons, Spring is already here . It's March, the start of Spring ^^.