Your predictions for 4.0!

[Omegakiyohime]

My Predictions:

FFXIV will finally get it's "Jeuno" in the recaptured city of Ala Mihgo, giving us a high level end game hub (tome vendors, market boards, inns etc.) in a multizone city as opposed to Mor Dhona/Idyllshire.

Samurai will get 1- 3 named Katanas and then go the way of Ninja with elaborately designed blades.

I also don't believe battle system/skill changes are going to be major and the battle system will more of less function as it is now. I don't see them going NGE when what's in place has more or less worked for them.

[Keiko_Kumiko]

I think,

To keep the game interesting, RDM as DPS, BLU as tank, and DNC as healer.
Our inventories will be doubled.
When going from lvl60 to lvl70 each job gets 5 new skills.
An elemental wheel will be introduced, and skills of every job adjusted accordingly.
Finally, maybe an upgrade of the waving of things.

$60.00 for something like this? Maybe. We'll see.

[Teryaani]

* We get Red mage with a dps stance and a healing stance - Players say that it sounds great until loads of people queue as healer and then run the whole content as dps.
* We get samurai with a dps stance and a tanking stance - see above.
* Blitzball happens because it's a water expansion (....in a desert...) and it would be a nice addition.
* The wPVP server that was announced happens. Someone will complain that even though they had to agree that they reaaaaaaaaalllly meant to go there that they didn't realize that open world pvp meant open world pvp
* The halloween haunted house is added to the gold saucer as a gate because square loves us.
* Housing stays pretty much like it is because now is too late for them to change it. Except for apartments - those expand so every player can get one.
* We lose more main characters because it adds weight to the story but will eventually get tiresome.
* We get a small bump in inventory space, but nowhere near enough to handle new glamours and housing stuff. Square promises glamour and housing collections in 5.0.
* They fix the movement physics of the roe and elezen and give all of us more character creation options. (Please)
* They add in a Wow-like pet battle system (Please - leave the RTS pet battles thing because some people like it, but this was what I really wanted for pet battles).

[Jandor]

Red Mage will be a pure dps caster with a melee style combo system, it will be 99% ranged with at most half a dozen melee skills & very little support, forum rage will be ridiculous.
Blue Mage will be announced as a tank, apart from a few job quests it doesn't learn monster abilities permanently, it just picks them up in duties and forgets them once they're used, forum rage will be insane.
Samurai will not be announced, the SAM files that were found will be revealed to have been short for sample, they were just trolling dataminers by leaving them in, forum rage will incredible.
Dancer will be nowhere to be seen, SE won't even mention it, in fact Yoshi will do an interview saying he hates Dancer and it will never be in FFXIV, forum rage will be ridiculous.

[ErikMynhier]

From the few I've seen I bet the new AF will all be gender-mixed ffxiv looking gear based on the jobs of FFT.


Story wise I'm betting the Ala Mhigans in Gyr like the empire and will be mad at us for bringing war to their land.

[Teryaani]

Story wise I'm betting the Ala Mhigans in Gyr like the empire and will be mad at us for bringing war to their land.

HA!

Scion - "we're freeing you from tyranny"
WoL <nods>
Ala Mhigan - "Are you insane? We have indoor plumbing now, aren't starving, and can vote for local leaders"

[ErikMynhier]

HA!

Scion - "we're freeing you from tyranny"
WoL <nods>
Ala Mhigan - "Are you insane? We have indoor plumbing now, aren't starving, and can vote for local leaders"

Exactly, here in the west we have this romantic feeling about the noble resistance fighter. Sure sometimes they are fighting tyranny like the french in ww2, but sometimes the resistance is the Taliban.

I was in the sandbox, sometimes folks don't feel liberated, sometimes they feel invaded.

[Dragon_Sanders]

Well I doubt there's anything unexpected (amazing).
The jobs----I already have 3 battle jobs and 7 crafting jobs of lv50-60. When it comes to 4.0, max lv grows to 70, I'll want to die. As for new jobs, Alisaie might be key NPC of red mage.
The MSQ, I'm more certain that the red-dressed girl is Yda. She changes a lot after her great...loss.
I forget the guy's name who followed Ilberd's order to set the weapon to kill the mass of people. Probably he'll turn back to help WoL (and finally die to pay for his misdeed).
the Garlean Empire should also play an important part but it's hard to explain why SE must creat new characters to do that...

[Lexia]

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$60.00 for something like this? Maybe. We'll see.

Well if don't count the physical or digital CE, then the expansion by itself is only $40 for those that don't get a CE version.

[Khalithar]

I've thought long and hard about stormblood and what we're getting and I'll tell you what I think we're going to get.

A main story quest from 60-70.

A few dungeons to do from level 61-69.

A dungeon needed for the main story at 70.

Two dungeons at 70 for the ex roulette which will get moved in to a level 70 roulette once we get the next two dungeons for the ex roulette.

Three 24 man raids following a storyline.

An 8 man raid with 4 turns to supplement gearing up while farming new tomestones that cap at 450 a week and will cycle as we get new tomestones. In addition the fourth step of the raid will require clearing it 7 times over 7 weeks to get a weapon. They will also have a Savage mode variation to clear.

2-3 initial primals that are part of the main storyline and have an EX mode that drop weapons and mounts. 2-3 new primals added in a side storyline with an optional EX mode.

More hildibrand quests.

Some new sidequests and stories they decide to add.

A new relic weapon.

Do you see what I'm getting at here?