Samurai and Ala Migho

[Velox]

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Actually, other than the egi thing, they said no to special stats from the get-go due to the balancing nightmare. Add-ons are still inbound. Odin is an open-world primal and you see how much a shit-show that is. Open-world fights are overrated, as they will ALWAYS turn into zerg-fests (part of the reason I prefer instances in MMO to curb people's stupidity).

Also if I remember correctly, Yoshida said there would be only 1 job per expansion from this point forward. The reason why the last 3 were messes was because the team didn't have enough manpower to balance 3 entire new jobs and fine tune them before launch. He said they would limit it to 1 job and that way it won't get released as an unholy mess.

[kiraan]

Also if I remember correctly, Yoshida said there would be only 1 job per expansion from this point forward. The reason why the last 3 were messes was because the team didn't have enough manpower to balance 3 entire new jobs and fine tune them before launch. He said they would limit it to 1 job and that way it won't get released as an unholy mess.

I don't recall him mentioning they would limit to 1 job only. What he said was they won't release 3 at once. Meaning 2 is still possible.

[Kazrah]

I don't recall him mentioning they would limit to 1 job only. What he said was they won't release 3 at once. Meaning 2 is still possible.

There was the whole thing about how it takes a year to make a job and that with Heavensward, they had to do triple the work in that time. They said that between that WHILE making Rogue/Ninja, they said all of that was something they never wanted to do again.

Given that they've had more than that much time to come up with new job details (one year for 3.x v. almost two for 4.x) and that they likely have some sort of template for job design by now (at least tanks and healers) that it seems HIGHLY unlikely that we'll just get two jobs unless they put far too many resources into something else.

[Shippuu]

I don't recall him mentioning they would limit to 1 job only. What he said was they won't release 3 at once. Meaning 2 is still possible.

They never even said 3 was impossible to do, only that it was a lot of work and the comments came while they were also referring to releasing ninja in 2.4 so the context is a bit muddled on if they were referring to technically developing 4 jobs at once or not. Even then his comments were not definitive saying they'd never release 3 jobs during an expansion, only that they wouldn't do a mid-cycle job release again like ninja.

Then during the 14 hour broadcast he supposedly almost gave away the number of jobs to be added in 4.0 and it had to do with the moonfire faire (3 rangers = 3 new jobs likely). So even If it's hard I believe they would be adamant to keep the quality up and release 3 new jobs, one for each role at 4.0.