Letter from the Producer, XVI (08/15/2011)

[Anty]

"development of unique motions and effects for certain weapon skills" - very nice but: what about the mages?
they have the worst animations/spell animations i can think of, and still no change? Are they gonna touch mages before 2.0 or ever? If i missed something in the letter please tell me . It's not just the animations though, but it would be a start.
AM still is a joke and 99.9% useless. I would like to have some information about these issues and IF they are gonna get improved/fixed at all.

[Sephr]

R30 Ifrit battle....does this means we get to fight Ifrit BEFORE he appears on the main quest? That feels weird.

They condensed a bunch of missions down in the last patch, hopefully they're going to do it again with the Ifrit one being somewhere before/at R30. That would perfectly lead into the battle vs. him there.

Hopefully it'll be sort of like XI, which had two versions of the avatar battles, except this time it would be 4-man at 30 and 8-man at 50.

[nibelunc]

Sounds great!
Can't wait for chocobos and like the open dungeon thing. Im only a bit sceptical about the new claiming system and monster groups.

But this patch will be great!

[KitCat]

Looks pretty cool. Lots of content in this one. I was expecting strongholds to be open world as well but I guess we'll have to make due.

Airships and chocobos, woo!

[Kibo]

Chocobos and airships WUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT

Come back to bed, all is forgiven

[MeowyWowie]

95% WIN patch. Some parts I strongly disagree with, though. We will see how it all pans out in September.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

"development of unique motions and effects for certain weapon skills" - very nice but: what about the mages?
they have the worst animations/spell animations i can think of, and still no change? Are they gonna touch mages before 2.0 or ever? If i missed something in the letter please tell me . It's not just the animations though, but it would be a start.
AM still is a joke and 99.9% useless. I would like to have some information about these issues and IF they are gonna get improved/fixed at all.

I agree here. I like how in FFXI there were different magic types and different casting motion/animations associated with each. In this game its 'hold-hand-to-head' purple power ranger motion. Hope they spice it up. Maybe you should make a thread with DEV tags and try to get reps to bring it up to devs.

[Cairdeas]

M still is a joke and 99.9% useless. .

See: Major revisions to Damage Algorithms.

Also, Please note...


There are atleast 4 Dungeon raids talked about being added.

1 Low Level Dungeons
3 Strong Hold Raids.

[Akira]

Abolition of physical levels -NEW-We will implement a system whereby players can voluntarily allocate attribute points to each class in patch 1.20. This will take place alongside class balance adjustments
looks like were stuck with not customizable stats till 1.20 sigh was looking forward to customizing them how i see fit

[Zion_Cross]

another long month ahead.
Meanwhile, start your engine ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUE32J43_wg

Hmm I like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4AgvupLeE more... It's more calm and nicer to ride on. I find the ffxiv version to be spastic.