Predictions for tomorrow's Live Letter

[soliquidsnake]

Also, if you don't salt at least once tomorrow. What the heck are you doing with your sub?! Lol

[Airikay]

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New Skills:
Shell: (White Mage Only) Like Protect, but for Magical Damage (acquired at the level Protect was formerly acquired).
Dia: (White Mage Only) A Damage Over Time skill (acquired at the level Cleric Stance was formerly acquired).

Shell is already part of protect. It use to be a trait for WHM but they rolled it altogether for 3.0. It use to be SCH only had physical protect.

[soliquidsnake]

To be fair, while I think SE does the best job of any MMO company out there. They ARE tossing around some pretty casual things. I will wait until I see how they're implemented. Running dungeons with your free company squad has me a bit on edge, I won't lie. That seems REALLY stupid to me.

Now if they're like "you can now run Castrum / Ultima weapon" with your squad, I'll breathe a big sigh of relief.

Do you mean Grand Company? I think the way that could work is if anything before Stormblood is able to be used with the Grand Company squad. New expansion content will be a no go for such until the next expansion. That cuts queue times for new players and they can have a more fun time leveling instead of doing PotD. They're in for a rude awakening when they reach 4.0 content though.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

My predictions:

BRD/MCH will be disappointed when they find out Minuet/Barrel weren't removed.

SCH will cry bloody murder when they find out Cleric Stance now reduces the fairy's healing by the same percentage as their own healing.

I will be disappointed when I find out RDM requires just as many finger gymnastics, and is just as complicated to perform acceptably with, as all the other DPS jobs.

And everyone will be disappointed when the so-called combat revamp addresses much less than they were expecting of the issues with their favored jobs and cross class skills.

[ErikMynhier]

A Paladin skill with the word "Emblem" in its name....

New traits from lv 50 on to 70 if we are lucky....

Most if not all the new PLD offensive skills will be AoE...

[Keridwyn]

Rivers will boil, the land will heave, clouds of salt will darken the skies...

But in all seriousness I'm just hoping to get firmer word on these healer mounts I keep hearing whispered rumors of and to see if WHM gets any support utility abilities. Mostly I predict that whatever happens to Cleric Stance someone will not be happy about it.

[LunaFaye]

Let's not get all excited, we all know how it's going to be, if the last live letters were any indicator we'll be getting less and less information with each of them. The question we should be asking is why, but maybe we're doing that another time. Here's whats going to happen:

hour long intro
some "unknown" music plays
some clips of "unknown" area's will be displayed
couple new dungeons will be shown
couple new armor will be shown
maybe if we're lucky a couple of new skills will be shown (I wouldn't count on that one)

That whole block will be wrapped up as a 15 minute slide show without commentary

Now we are moving on to, well that's right housing, glamour, Q&A of old ARR content

This will take 45+ minutes

We're now at the point were someone needs to remind us what's coming, and that will be the old slide show presentation all of us already know, and that's posted on the pre order webpage as well. Making sure that the release day is mentioned a couple of times (would be bad if someone forgets june 16th/20th), the pre order bonuses will be shown again (because everybody should be on the hype train by now right, even tho there were no information presented)

After that we all want more information and dying of excitement, because that's human nature, but then you'll see all these bloggers and youtube channels as well as twitch, announcing unrevealed information they secretly gotten from somewhere, or hidden and magical things we might have missed throughout the 30 second videos, just to push their agenda - more subscribers yada yada.

Please look forward to it.

[RaizeGraymalkin]

People will expect far too much and be disappointed. Keep your expectations in check and everything will mostly be fine.

[Greedalox]

My predictions:

BRD/MCH will be disappointed when they find out Minuet/Barrel weren't removed.

Why would MCH be upset about that? It's ugly as sin but functionally it works for the class. Anybody who says it causes you to turret or lose mobility needs to spend a bit more time with the class me thinks.

Can't speak for BRD though, but next to summoner they complain the most out of anybody so who knows.

[ErikMynhier]

People will expect far too much and be disappointed. Keep your expectations in check and everything will mostly be fine.

They will be to busy with the "death" of Balmung.