Famitsu interview with Yoshida after NA's FanFest

[Leigaon]

...Our best bet, both for people who level with potd/fates and people who level boost, is that they go forward with the hall of the intermediate, and maybe make it mandatory.

That might be the best option is making it mandatory. The tools for teaching new users is already there and is very helpful but can be avoided if someone chooses to. Tooltips / Guildhests and all the things you've stated about guides / talking with people and have some general urge to learn will have people go far. Though, it's making them or trusting the users to do it that is hard.

I'm very interested in the job UI they talked about, and the additional skills to be shared between roles. It would depend on how they adjust the skills out there and how they can be combined to jobs to help them out. Personally I adore debuffing and party enhancing. So being able to customize it to an extent is exciting.

[RukiaFae]

So who said there was 2 monks again?

Yep I thought that part was interesting. Can't wait until we find out more.

[FJerome]

Level jump potions are very likely to be added and will jump to 60.

A request to the devs;

If you're going to make the previous story skippable do it in the way that you did for relaunch, where everyone who started at 2.0 started later in the narrative than the 1.0 players. That way all the previous stuff still happened and you don't reduce how epic it was by truncating it, the player just decides that they weren't around for it (it still should be an option to play from the beginning of 2.0 if they really want to, though).

It would also let you open up using the later cities, like Ishgard and Rhalgr's Reach, as starting cities, since by the time 4.0 adventurers picked up their weapons those cities would be lore-compliant-accessible.

Plus it would let you finally expand the time-bubble.

[Zojha]

Doesn't matter if you're not in a NA server, the point stands that we need a better tool to teach players[...]

No we don't. The issue is not that we lack tools, it's that people aren't using them. A decent rotation can be figured out by applying common sense and basic math to tooltips, but people are not doing that. So the only thing you can do there is to give people the solution sheet (Full Rotation), tell them to learn it by heart and then gate them behind tests until they do it flawlessly (Which probably is what people think Hall of the Intermediate would be). And you'd still get people only spamming 3 buttons the moment they passed the test out of sheer laziness.

We could use better tools to optimize the rotation afterward, that is true. Doing the math on when exactly to use blood for blood in your rotation or how to align cooldowns in general is fairly complicated. But I don't think that's the level of play we're talking about.

[Beskar]

To be honest, it will be getting to a point where the potions will be needed or some form catch up mechanic to level. Look at WoW for example, that games has 110 levels now and people get bored if it before they even hit max level due to the vast amount of time it takes to level. With Final Fantasy, they could easily get around this by having the Echo show the Major past events going on with default Warrior of Light and treat this as a new adventurer type thing.

Reading through other things..Nice to see them want to finally add Alert type effects. It is sorely needed.

Please allow hotbar switch on stances too.. The technology is there pretty much with mounts and items already applied for it. It'll clear the clutter up so much.

Parry and Accuracy have a very high chance of being removed too?! Gimme Gimme Gimme.

[RosaLunaCelestia]

Put level up potion very expensive SE if u add it ...put them really expensive...15$ just 1...

[Kyuuen]

So who said there was 2 monks again?

A lot of people did, as well as I. But remember he also didn't confirm that it was dancer either...

[alimdia]

A request to the devs.

A more likely thing to happen is an unskippable long cutscene summarizing the story so far. What you're proposing would cause issues with the story moving forward, too many branches.

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Everything you said can be done after you boost, and I already mentioned tooltips above.

[FinalWolf]

A lot of people did, as well as I. But remember he also didn't confirm that it was dancer either...

I never mentioned dancer though

[ErdrickLoto]

A lot of people did, as well as I. But remember he also didn't confirm that it was dancer either...

I mean.

If he said "she isn't a monk" (can't confirm for certain, can't access Reddit right now) then I'm not entirely certain what else she could be, if not a dancer.