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[Pride]

I mean... We're almost two months away from a release and we have yet to receive any kind of specific information concerning the expansion.

What are the actual abilities of these new jobs?

What are the new abilities for current jobs?

Are we getting a dungeon akin to Crystal Tower again?

What exactly are the new rules for the new version of Frontlines?

Why did the class system get dropped for the new jobs? Will it be dropped completely in the months coming?

What are the new crafting abilities and what kind of implications does "specializing" have?

What are the new LB3s for each of the jobs?

What are their current plans for housing as far plots and wards go? Do they plan to add more to meet the high demand?

What exactly are "high level levequests" - what makes them different from a normal levequest?

What have they learned from 2.0 - 2.55 about FATE design and how is it improved in 3.0 from the total zerg fest that it once was?

What other primals, if any, are to be introduced with the expansion?

Will we be able to join one of the four great houses of Ishgard?

What exactly are Grand Companies for, aside from Frontline teams? Will they be expanded upon in 3.0 and how?

I can't be the only one asking these questions, and it's not like they have to tell me everything all at once, but maybe a heavier stream of information might help. I'm incredibly excited for the expansion, I just wish I could back up my claims as to why.

Most of my conversations go like this;

Me - "Hey guyz, did you hear that FFXIV is getting an expansion?! I'm super excited!"

Friend - "Oh really? What all are they adding?"

Me - "New jobs! Flying mounts! And they're even increasing the level cap!"

Friend - "Oh cool! What do the new jobs do?"

Me - "I don't actually know, one tanks, one does damage, and the other heals."

Friend - "Oh, that's cool. What about the flying mounts? What kind of mounts are they adding and what level can I ride one?"

Me - "Uhhhh... There's a Griffin if you buy the collector's edition, and I saw a dragon. And I don't know what level you can ride one or what you have to do actually..."

Friend - "Ah, okay, well what about the new level cap? What cool abilities is everyone getting."

Me - "... No idea..."

See? There's a lot of topics that I want to talk about and tell people about, but I have nothing to keep the conversation going. It's like gnawing on a chicken bone. Sure, you can kind of taste the chicken, and it feels like you're eating something; but you're not, because there is no real meat to chew on. GIVE ME SOMETHING TO CHEW ON DARN IT!

[Skeith-Adeline]

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...dude, you said it yourself. There is 2 months remaining. MORE THAN ENOUGH time to spill out much of this. Besides...

"What other primals, if any, are to be introduced with the expansion?"
I supposed you hadn't seen Bismark...? Or Ravana? There was another, outside of Alexander, but I don't remember the name.

[Pride]

...dude, you said it yourself. There is 2 months remaining. MORE THAN ENOUGH time to spill out much of this. Besides...

"What other primals, if any, are to be introduced with the expansion?"
I supposed you hadn't seen Bismark...? Or Ravana? There was another, outside of Alexander, but I don't remember the name.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I know about Bismark and Ravana, but outside of those two, we have heard nothing, nor how they will function in the game. We were told a name, and given a beast tribe with a couple little photos and that's really about it.

[Omegakiyohime]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I know about Bismark and Ravana, but outside of those two, we have heard nothing, nor how they will function in the game. We were told a name, and given a beast tribe with a couple little photos and that's really about it.

That's pretty much all you are going to get. I wouldn't expect anymore nor any actual specifics like a skill list or anything outside of a blurb about the new FL rules

[Starlord]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I know about Bismark and Ravana, but outside of those two, we have heard nothing, nor how they will function in the game. We were told a name, and given a beast tribe with a couple little photos and that's really about it.

There are just somethings need to be left up to "surprising" you at launch. They can't tell us EVERYTHING lol. I am sure they will have a Live letter special about a month before launch ( next month they have 1 scheduled to talk about the battle system and more. Then there's E3, where they will most likely drop the bomb of info there.

[Skeith-Adeline]

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#TeamXaela

[BristolRuss]

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While I can't answer all of your questions, I will answer these ones:

"Are we getting a dungeon akin to Crystal Tower again?"
Yes. The new 24 man raid will be coming in patch 3.1

"What are the new LB3s for each of the jobs?"
Unknown at this point. But the new Dragoon LB3 will be shown in the Heavensward benchmark which will release later this month.

"What are their current plans for housing as far plots and wards go? Do they plan to add more to meet the high demand?"
Housing will be added to Ishgard eventually. It won't be at launch however.

"What other primals, if any, are to be introduced with the expansion?"
They have already shown off Bismark and Ravana, who will both be getting a Normal and Hard Mode encounter. It is unknown if there will be more in the game that haven't been revealed yet.

[OMEGA_HACK]

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Welcome to the world of Square-Enix expansions. They did this same stuff back when XI was hot stuff. That being said don't worry about a month to two weeks before launch they will drop a butt load of information, and about a week before launch they will get the nitty-gritty information in our hands.

[Zumi]

I mean... We're almost two months away from a release and we have yet to receive any kind of specific information concerning the expansion.
GIVE ME SOMETHING TO CHEW ON DARN IT!

Why do you want the whole game spoiled for you before it even comes out? I am fine with only knowing a little about it and I get to see what happens when I actually play it.

[SongJoohee]

I mean... We're almost two months away from a release and we have yet to receive any kind of specific information concerning the expansion.

Like others have said, we're 2 months away. Disks haven't even been printed yet. They will likely be working on Heavensward until the week it comes out. They've already said more specific details will be released as we get closer to release.

What are the actual abilities of these new jobs?

Details are scarce as they are probably being fine tuned and finalized. We know Machnist uses attachments which lock him in place in exchange for higher damage, as well as drones he can spawn which can buff allies or do even more DPS. Astrologian can do both jobs of healing and shielding. Dark Knight is our most unknown job at the moment.

What are the new abilities for current jobs?

Already stated to be coming in a video nearer to release. As above, they are probably still tweaking stuff.

Are we getting a dungeon akin to Crystal Tower again?

Patch 3.1.

Why did the class system get dropped for the new jobs? Will it be dropped completely in the months coming?

Yoshida has never liked the class system. He has stated future jobs won't use classes but the current base classes will not be dropped or changed in the future.

What are the new crafting abilities and what kind of implications does "specializing" have?

We heard a tonne about specialization in the PLL. Not sure what else you want.

What exactly are "high level levequests" - what makes them different from a normal levequest?

Likely actual challenges rather than the tutorial fights levequests in ARR were, or an introducting to new mechanics in Heavensward.

What other primals, if any, are to be introduced with the expansion?

None until after Patch 3.1

Will we be able to join one of the four great houses of Ishgard?

Likely Story spoilers.

Me - "Uhhhh... There's a Griffin if you buy the collector's edition, and I saw a dragon. And I don't know what level you can ride one or what you have to do actually..."

We know 6 out of 7 flying mounts.

1) Personal Chocobo
2) Black Chocobo
3) Main Story quest Dragon mount
4) Pink Dragon mount seen in Benchmark
5) Single Rider Airship
6) Griffin