about announcement, personal thought

[MilkieTea]

I'm autistic, and the trailers made me happy-stim so much that I bruised my knuckles on the desk.

[linayar]

I kinda disliked the branding "Sage" though. To me a Sage feels like the old wizard archetype, like Tellah or Strago and doesn't quite resonate with the aesthetics. I'd rather have a completely new branding, like Gunbreaker.

The word "sage" refers to some kind of wise person. It fits well with scholar and academician being Alphinaud's new job. And since the technological-like aesthetic is already well-established in the world of FFXIV (that's why Nier is not out of place in FFXIV aesthetically speaking), it fits with this version of sage as well.

[Takamorisan]

It was ok, but I was expecting some sneak peak in whatever new systems they plan or what they plan to do with classes in general. It seems they are striving for healer identity and adding Barrier Healer based and Pure Healers, are they going to give the same love for tanks or keep us the same mostly?

[wereotter]

It was ok, but I was expecting some sneak peak in whatever new systems they plan or what they plan to do with classes in general. It seems they are striving for healer identity and adding Barrier Healer based and Pure Healers, are they going to give the same love for tanks or keep us the same mostly?

Shadowbringers they had talked about making them more specialized to main tank and off tank roles, but ultimately decided not to go that route, it seems.

[Takamorisan]

Shadowbringers they had talked about making them more specialized to main tank and off tank roles, but ultimately decided not to go that route, it seems.

Honestly I hope the healers don't get further tank treatment where basically all the healers besides the new class has 0 identity.

[linayar]

I think the interesting thing about the healer distinction (as opposed to the proposed tank distinction) is that they say it will be reflected in the raid finder. Now, I do not know what that means as I don't do high end duties, but if they really want to "encourage" the healer distinction, they could add the distinction to the party-wide bonus for having the "right" composition.

[wereotter]

I think the interesting thing about the healer distinction (as opposed to the proposed tank distinction) is that they say it will be reflected in the raid finder. Now, I do not know what that means as I don't do high end duties, but if they really want to "encourage" the healer distinction, they could add the distinction to the party-wide bonus for having the "right" composition.

IT means that for hard content you'll be able to set regen and shield healer roles separately when recruiting for a party. Not much of a change from now since you can already set one healer role to WHM/AST and the other to SCH/AST. As I understand it, it will be optional to set roles that way too. Mainly that talk is just a quality of life improvement to make it easier to recruit players for high end duties.

[linayar]

IT means that for hard content you'll be able to set regen and shield healer roles separately when recruiting for a party. Not much of a change from now since you can already set one healer role to WHM/AST and the other to SCH/AST. As I understand it, it will be optional to set roles that way too. Mainly that talk is just a quality of life improvement to make it easier to recruit players for high end duties.

Uh, isn't recruiting done in party finder? That seems like a party finder change rather than a raid finder change unless I misheard or they misspoke.

[wereotter]

Uh, isn't recruiting done in party finder? That seems like a party finder change rather than a raid finder change unless I misheard or they misspoke.

Sorry I misspoke (I'm not normally the one going into this with my friends)

Raid finder is part of duty finder not party finder. Raid finder is used to effectively queue into harder content, currently this is how you get into the latest tier of Eden savage raids, the unreal fight, emerald weapon extreme, and the ultimate raids. So it seems that when randomly pairing up people, this will allow for parties to be constructed with one shield healer and one regen healer as opposed to two random healers of any variety

[linayar]

So it seems that when randomly pairing up people, this will allow for parties to be constructed with one shield healer and one regen healer as opposed to two random healers of any variety

Ok, so if it's really a change in raid finder, it will mainly only affect people playing on Japanese servers?