New Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LVI

[Jennah]

Anyone understand what they're saying well enough to hear if the Borzja Citadel thing is an actual Relic weapon, or just Eureka 2.0?

[KageTokage]

I'm not looking forward the ranking aspect of the restoration as everything seems to suggest it's going to just be a straight brainless grind of spamming collectables which entirely favors people using bots as I feared. The "expert" recipes actually further encourage their usage as bots can adjust for the quality changes whereas a macro can't.

Only one dungeon per patch also means we're likely not getting hard modes from any SB dungeons, which is a bit disappointing since I liked getting a new twist on familiar places.

Everything else sounds good, though.

[Listrella]

this was quite a good live letter, got more information than I was expecting with some surprises like the high sea fishing and crafter and gatherer relic gear. 5.2 shaping up to be quite a patch.

[Rufalus]

I took some notes.

Patch 5.18 arrives on 12/24.
This is the usual end-of-tier nerf patch which removes the weekly restriction on Savage loot and allows you to buy the weapon upgrades outside of Savage by using a Yohra coin.

Patch 5.2 title is Echoes of a Fallen Star. Coming mid-February.

• Sidequest: The Sorrow of Werlyt
• Trial: The Ruby Weapon
• Trial 2: ???
• Dungeon: Anamnesis Anyder
• Beast Tribe: Qitari (Qiqirn, DoL)
• Raid: Eden's Verse (includes Ramuh remix)
• Bozja Weapons: The new 'relics'
• Skysteel Tools: DoH/DoL get upgradeable quest tools too
• Diadem: DoL content, no battles, don't need fuel tanks
• Fishing: Ride a ship out to join new Ocean Fishing challenge
• MSQ and Ishgardian Restoration continue

System Changes

• Equipment is no longer destroyed when converting spiritbond into materia.
• Can meld materia without specific class reqs, only need to lv one DoH class to meld on all types of gear.
• YOU WILL NO LONGER NEED A DOH PARTY FOR FC PROJECTS, can finally complete building projects solo.

[HakaseNyan]

mogmog57 does live translation on twitch

[Krokov]

More content, that may either be successful or be dead on arrival, and less dungeons! 2 expansions out and we'll be settling for dungeons only being given during odd number main patches.

I might be misunderstanding but the notes said "Moving forward one dungeon will be added with every patch" not just odd number patches.

[Listrella]

I might be misunderstanding but the notes said "Moving forward one dungeon will be added with every patch" not just odd number patches.

I think they're saying that's probably is what's going to happen in the future.

[Rasikko]

I took some notes.

Patch 5.18 arrives on 12/24.
This is the usual end-of-tier nerf patch which removes the weekly restriction on Savage loot and allows you to buy the weapon upgrades outside of Savage by using a Yohra coin.

Patch 5.2 title is Echoes of a Fallen Star. Coming mid-February.

• Sidequest: The Sorrow of Werlyt
• Trial: The Ruby Weapon
• Trial 2: ???
• Dungeon: Anamnesis Anyder
• Beast Tribe: Qitari (Qiqirn, DoL)
• Raid: Eden's Verse (includes Ramuh remix)
• Bozja Weapons: The new 'relics'
• Skysteel Tools: DoH/DoL get upgradeable quest tools too
• Diadem: DoL content, no battles, don't need fuel tanks
• Fishing: Ride a ship out to join new Ocean Fishing challenge
• MSQ and Ishgardian Restoration continue

System Changes

• Equipment is no longer destroyed when converting spiritbond into materia.
• Can meld materia without specific class reqs, only need to lv one DoH class to meld on all types of gear.
• YOU WILL NO LONGER NEED A DOH PARTY FOR FC PROJECTS, can finally complete building projects solo.

Thanks for this.

Not thrilled about the savage change. Still means you need to do it to get the i460 wep but that's just a personal gripe of mine.

That very last one is good for smaller FCs who don't have more than 3 active crafters/players with craft classes unlocked.

[purgatori]

Anyone understand what they're saying well enough to hear if the Borzja Citadel thing is an actual Relic weapon, or just Eureka 2.0?

Bozja is a smouldering crater where a city used to be.

[monk-dps]

Thanks for this.

Not thrilled about the savage change. Still means you need to do it to get the i460 wep but that's just a personal gripe of mine.

That very last one is good for smaller FCs who don't have more than 3 active crafters/players with craft classes unlocked.

what? Did they change how savage work? I totally missed the live letter as I have work in the morning. D: