FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV

[Ultimatecalibur]

Seems like the game is not going in a direction that I like.


New raid, 1 Extreme trial, 2 instances.


While in other patchs we had something like, new raid, 3 extremes, 3 instances.


Yeah, I know that there's other things, but that's what I like. In fact I woud be happy with some lvl 50 instances adjusted to level 60 plus 5 trials and a new raid, or something like that. But just 1 trial...................

This is an odd number patch and those are traditionally catch-up patches. Most patches only introduce 1 "true" extreme, 2.1 was an odd ball with 4 of them and all 4 were done in response to community demand for harder content. Also they often do not reveal all of the trials before patch day.

[Elvin]

2.1 is the only patch to introduce three Extreme Primals and one Minstrel Ballad fight, 2.2 introduced 2 EX Primals and then it has been one EX Primal up until Heavensward (2.5 didn't have an EX Primal). All patches have only introduced one raid (odd numbers were Crystal Tower, even numbers were Binding Coil). We're getting two dungeons, plus Airship Exploration (assuming that's the trade off, I'm fine with it, especially as it seems you get Esoterics from it).

Aye, your are probably right. I just miss those patches xD

I feel that they are putting to much effor in content that has no value to me, like this verminion thing.

And I'm not very thrilled about Airship Exploration, I have the feeling that it will end being like fates xD

[Alleo]

Sadly I was not able to watch the complete livestream. Other than the shield in the trailer was there any other mention of Haurchefant?
Did they show his minion or something like that? We seem to get more minions so I hope that they would not push back his release over those

Oh and that knife in that persons body hopefully that will not be deadly.

@Oh its still going on O_O thought its over after I had no screen at twitch

[Nestama]

And I'm not very thrilled about Airship Exploration, I have the feeling that it will end being like fates xD

Well it will have one thing in common with FATE's. Mobs being immune to Provoke (I think that was confirmed?). NM's and HNM's were confirmed to be in it, so we can probably expect Hunt/Dungeon type mechanics and there's a choice of Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty.

[Xairos]

The provoke thing is that you can just use flash to get credit. Only damage gets credit for killskills

[Nalien]

I'd worry more about Sky Exploration being more like Hunts, although from what I've gathered a finite number of people enter? That right there is a huge improvement IMO, add to that the fact that some might go off Gathering, and we've got A Ranks (regular trash), S Ranks (NMs), and SS Ranks (HNMs) in the area for fairly standardized groups to take on over 90 minutes, rather than "S Rank is up, summon the entire server". Hopefully they implement some form of force popping as well, though it sounds like it'll either be a race to get to the serious stuff all the same, which is disappointing. They can balance the HNMs to require teamwork though, I imagine.

Still, sounds like an improvement on Hunts IMO, not that that would have been hard to achieve, Hunts are terrible.

[Xairos]

The provoke thing is that you can just use flash to get credit. Only damage gets credit for killskills

Can't my bad I meant can't

[Craiger]

I'm really hyped up about 3.1 now, especially Airship Exploration, but...

No relics until 3.15 -_-

3.15 won't be out until December, might even be late December with their scheduling as of late...

[Nalien]

Oh my...

That materia change sucks for Tanks, and anyone who melds Piety (is that anyone?), but materia on tomestone/raid gear? Awesome. Stronger crafted gear? Finally.

[Eidolon]

Ugh.... They're adding NPC outfits---

As cash shop items.

That's disgusting.