Lore Book Preview Spotted on the 14-Hour Broadcast

[Anonymoose]

So～♪

Who's exci～ted?

[Bloody]

I want.....

[Claire_Pendragon]

Id be worried about spoilers, but I do want it.

[Enkidoh]

WANT

*opens empty purse as dust blows out and cries*

Ah well, I guess I better start saving for it.. on top of everything else I've been meaning to get but neglected due to money being needed elsewhere (HW artbook, HW OST, 2.55 OST etc)....

[Nalien]

That elemental wheel makes me sad it has no real gameplay presence... I get why it wouldn't work in the traditional sense, but I think it could make a great Job mechanic for something like Red Mage... Most Jobs have rotations, might as well make one that adheres to the elemental wheel... Lord knows looking at that wheel hurts my sensibilities with regards to the elements Black Mage and White Mage throw out...

Did they just have some odd pages from it, or did they hold up the actual book? I want a sense of how big this'll be...

[Anonymoose]

I think it could make a great Job mechanic for something like Red Mage

Agreed. You know how Ninja spins through mudra? There's no reason a mage couldn't spin through enspells (and not even necessarily off the GCD; it could be part of the main rotation). When you're building up combinations or rotations, it's just mechanics wearing a dress, you know? I've always imagined XIV!RDM as a front-line INT-based jack-of-all-mages and master-of-none that could combine and/or rotate elements to achieve different effects. Mostly DPS, sure, but they could combo up certain debuffs that are worth the lost rotation to manage a longer fight, or to take down a big pull quicker, or sacrifice outgoing DPS entirely for a moment to clutch a buff or heal-assist. I've already written it off as a lost pipe-dream, though.

Did they just have some odd pages from it, or did they hold up the actual book? I want a sense of how big this'll be...

Oda-san had some loose sheets and held up what you see there as they were chatting about who everyone was and what recent events were. There's a good chance that the sheets he's holding are 1:1, right? So imagine roughly 300 of those compiled into something that would pass as a "blunt instrument", and scale slightly for what-if sizes.

[Nalien]

I've already written it off as a lost pipe-dream, though.

Pipe-dreams are my specialty! To this day, I'll stick to Musketeer => Scholar; Why else did Merlwyb have a display case with a pistol and book in her office?! Battlefield medic with a pistol for DPS, with Scholar adding a book for Stratagem style buffs! We've had Scholar for years now, but gosh darn it! Musketeer => Scholar was perfect...

Oda-san had some loose sheets and held up what you see there as they were chatting about who everyone was and what recent events were. There's a good chance that the sheets he's holding are 1:1, right? So imagine roughly 300 of those compiled into something that would pass as a "blunt instrument", and scale slightly for what-if sizes.

Hmm... Something similar to the art books then?

You know... I think I'd prefer something smaller, something closer to a regular book, rather than a text book... Almost certainly not a cost effective way to produce this thing, but damn... Can you imagine having several lore tomes? A book on magic, another on martial arts, another on history, and so on...

Guess I'm going to need to shuffle up my shelf either way... Stone and Steel was a bad enough squeeze...

[swiss_Momo]

Shut up and take my money already!

[Cilia]

I can haz advanced aetherology? For science?

[WhiteArchmage]

...well, guess going to visit the boyfriend will have to wait even more <_<