Stormblood trailer talk!

[Seku]

I'm thinking RDM and BLU, both as DPS or Healer / DPS are going to be the new jobs. Reason being the translator made mention of Captain America: Civil War with that Scarlet Witch shirt on. The shirt points to RDM. Looking at Civil War you've got Tony Stark in his Iron man suit that is mostly red and then you've got cap who is in mostly BLU. Last years event in the secret room showed them also fighting which would be coming out between the two as well. I get the feeling that later on in the expansion cycle, if everything is going well they may then drop SAM.

I don't believe that Dancer was in the trailer, but rather is just a monk. All of their moves are monk related and look comparable to the styles we've already seen. That and I don't see a dancer trading blows bare handed with a Monk that causes the very earth to shake from a statue.

[Nezerius]

housing spoiled for 4.0 that, by all rights, was literally stated to be coming in 3.0 as of the /last/ fanfest, to a picture of expanded inventory still showing the max 100 feature currently enabled

Do you mean Ishgard housing? That was never confirmed to be added in 3.x. Besides, they didn't go into detail on what the new housing area is, as it'd spoil the upcoming MSQ.
Why do you need to see the exact change to the inventory? It's obviously a feature that they're still working on, they just wanted to confirm that it's actually going to happen in 4.0.

I mean granted, the /almost/ 20 years bit could be seen either way, I mean I'm still curious how long 2.x and 3.x have taken up to this point, aside from the statement of "the period of 2.55 - 3.0 being 2 weeks, storywise" to... yeah 1.x taking all of a year, then ya got the part about ala mhigo falling 15 years before the events of 1.x, then the time skip of 5 years after 1.x to 2.0, so sure, sorry if I'm nitpicking, but it's been a good 21+ years....

The image about the amount of years said two decades, not almost 20 years. They probably went for simplicity instead of writing "two decades and x years"
There's also the lore panel on Saturday, so it might be mentioned then.

More bothered by what these folks might deem useless skills given how these are the same folks that keep trying to buff astrologian for balance... yeah... that's fair.

One of the abilities shown was Feint, the most useless ability for DRGs. In my years of maining a DRG, I've never had a reason to use that ability.

[Alleo]

Well like I already wrote in another thread I liked the landscape in the trailer and the fighting scene. I am a little sad that derplander looks like that now. People change and get older but even in HW you knew exactly who that male is and yet here I did kinda needed some time to get that he is the WoL. If they don't change much of the ingame aesthetic than the CGI derplander will look quite different to the ingame model. I also did not get much of a feeling that this was FF14. If it wasn't for the chocobo at the end I could have mistook this for a different series.

At the beginning I also thought that this would be Yda but now I really hope that she is someone else. It would be way too obvious right now and she does not feel much like Yda anyway. (Her clothing style, her movement..)

[Aeliott]

Yda has a sister; it could be her.

Also, let's not jump the gun(blade) on the big bad looking Samurai-like. While it could certainly still be one of the new jobs, I'm not putting too much stock in this guy's appearance being a hint at it, nor what role it will fill if it is in the game. Antagonist NPCs have never been job hints before.

[Cilia]

Antagonist NPCs have never been job hints before.

Hey, remember that smug Lalafell Yellowjacket chick who antagonized the Rogues' Guild for nearly the entire 1-30 quest? And called guns a much more civilized weapon than daggers? Yeeeeeeah...

(Granted she ended up not being the ultimate villain of the story. Still antagonistic up until nearly the very end though.)

Admittedly, Samurai is just wishful thinking for now. Red Mage is all but confirmed; anything else is only at the "Well, maybe..." stage.

[Aeliott]

Well, I meant large-scale enemies like Gaius :P
We didn't get a gunblade job. And while this new guy does wield a Katana-like blade, his weird....multi-sheath-probably-also-gun-related-thing is definitely not something the WoL will get his hands on.

[Cilia]

Well, I'm not expecting to get the gunsheath like yae Galvus has. That's just asking for too much. But it was stated that Samurai was in the running for 3.0's tank class, and the only reason they didn't add it was because they had introduced NIN in 2.4 and didn't want to put in another Eastern cultured Job so soon after that. All we need is some Doman refugees to come and drop it on us, really.

Anyway, what struck me about yae Galvus wasn't his weapon, but his overall design. All of the legates we've seen have had very clean, streamlined designs. His is rather asymmetrical in comparison; he's got that sash and big-ass gunsheath on opposite sides. It's a different look for a legate. Curious.

[rosythorns4]

I wouldn't be surprised if Musketeer is dead for good. Coral Tower in Limsa is now Marauder's Guild and then there's MCH.

Iunno.. you still see the man standing with a pistol right outside the coral tower, aside from the one wielding an axe, there was the one npc in the rogue questline, wielding both a cutlass and a gun, then the same with the mch questline with the roegadyn that seems to change from using mch skills and gladiator skills based on the needs of the mission. Sure that doesn't really say much for what could be suggested, I mean we still have the single pistol users at the basement of the "marauder's guild", a place that still bears the flag at the staircase for Musketeers. Between a whm housing a city with whms, a gld housing a city with the gld guild, and arena, and really, the whole idea of pirates only being ax swinging marauders... really seems to be missing the mark.

[rosythorns4]

Do you mean Ishgard housing? That was never confirmed to be added in 3.x.

A: We'll be increasing the number of plots for existing housing areas in Patch 3.3. After we expand those areas, we'll add apartment-style housing in Ishgard areas afterwards

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/278439

To be fair I'm still waiting for the item increase discussed there, but not holding my breath on it either.

I mean, sure, I remember when yoshi mentioned, jokingly, who would want to live in a house where dragons land on your roof... then ya also gotta realize... we've kinda made peace with the beasts, at least the more bigger named ones... Still doesn't sound so bad...

[rosythorns4]

One of the abilities shown was Feint, the most useless ability for DRGs. In my years of maining a DRG, I've never had a reason to use that ability.

Eh... you're right... the slow effect to it, much like with shadow flare, doesn't really lend itself to useful given most enemies don't truly show an effect from it, but it kind of feels more as if this lends itself more to a retooling of mechanics needed as opposed to just chopping off skills... granted, shadow flare just has some decent damage.