On a scale of 1 - 10, how disappointed are you so far with Stormblood news?

[Reynhart]

For all I can speculate, maybe they really did want to put Ala Mhigo but to attract more fans and more "japan aficionados" from the west, they went full Eastern-look, and considering the number of subs is decreasing this new direction might lead to new players wanting to try, just because of that "amazing japanese scenario" and playing as the cool Samurai Dude. We already have a Ninja and not many MMORPGS allow you to be either a Samurai or a Ninja, at least not directly one

Doma was always said to be an eastern-type of place, and we could assume to go there at one point. And maybe "not many MMO include Samurai and Ninja", but those two jobs are part of Final Fantasy for a long time, it's no wonder we got both.
Besides, there is only one region around Ala Mhigo. How do you think they'll give us lots of map to explore with only Gyr Abania ?

[Ruenis]

1 - not dissapointed at all. The new region reveals actually make me curious on how they will presents Meracydia, when we eventually go there. Will SE put paralels to oceania regions ? I hope so.

[Dyvid]

5 or 6. Honestly I'm not seeing anything in the announcements that actually "expands" the game outside of the normal updates. 2 new jobs, a few new zones, and swimming...... Is there going to be new game systems? Deeper character customization? Deeper armor and weapon systems? Changes to the current games problems like broken linear progress? Are we finally going to see a bigger focus on open world content rather than instance?

[Shurrikhan]

Yes, but it wouldn't be the only choice.

Tomes are not a "content". They are a reward spread out across a breadth of content. As such, even if tome gear remains up necessary, at least you're able to do a variety of things (PvP, hunt, daily, so on and so forth) in order to gather those tomes, rather than being limited to gear grind dungeon spams. What you're suggesting leaves tomes as a viable choice only until weekly cap, and then forces a entirely singular grind upon anyone who wants to be competitive. The only choice it adds is "am I satisfied with retaining my sanity with only 5 hours of grinding, or should I do all 40 hours now so I can join a progression static and clear on opening week (unless less gear-cheesable mechanics are present)?" True uncapped (and non-tapering) acquisition is as painful on the hardcore as on the midcore or casual playerbase, especially when the grind really is that dull; they're just more accepting of the masochism.

Are you another person who mistake "uncapped" for "un-upgraded" ? In 3.0, you could farm Law Gear with leveling, trials and lvl-50 roulettes, meaning you didn't even have to tackle lvl 60 content. There's no reason to weekly cap or use savage-tier content to farm gear of the same ilvl.

You do realize that the uncapped tomestones are currently 15 ilvl beneath grindable dungeon gear, right? Sorry if I was mistaken in assuming you meant something that would be more, not less, useful than is currently the case.

[Araxes]

10. All my excitement died when i heard about Samurai being DPS. Everyone i know and a lot of other people thought it would be a Tank since it would be a total stupid idea to put only 2 DPS jobs into a game with already long dps queues.
BUT Yoshida invisioned SAM as a DPS.. so they just made it DPS. Its not about what the Fans want.... its about what yoshida wants.

[Senn]

Its not about what the Fans want....

I wanted samurai to be a dps class, so I'm very happy.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

10. All my excitement died when i heard about Samurai being DPS. Everyone i know and a lot of other people thought it would be a Tank since it would be a total stupid idea to put only 2 DPS jobs into a game with already long dps queues.
BUT Yoshida invisioned SAM as a DPS.. so they just made it DPS. Its not about what the Fans want.... its about what yoshida wants.

What about all the fans that wanted SAM as a DPS? Sounds like this is about what YOU wanted, not what the fans wanted.

[Araxes]

Seems i triggered all the Main DPS players here.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Seems i triggered all the Main DPS players here.

I've been a PLD longer than you've been playing the game. Just sayin.

[Senn]

Seems i triggered all the Main DPS players here.

Seems more like you're getting defensive to me. :^(