Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[Rymi64]

That's why I feel it was both smart and worrying that they've moved away from job quests, and removed getting skills from job quests almost entirely. On the one hand, it allows them to rework a job extensively if the gameplay is found lacking, or disliked by the playerbase.

...but then we run into problems like htf is Demi-Pheonix tied to Summoner? At least Demi-Bahamut was explained, but job abilities 71+ just... have no in-game Lore to them at all.

Bahamut and Phoenix are tied together because both of their aether is around because of the calamity. Without phoenix we would have had to wait more years for the next astral period

[WhiteArchmage]

Bahamut and Phoenix are tied together because both of their aether is around because of the calamity. Without phoenix we would have had to wait more years for the next astral period

I know Phoenix is a thing and we fought him in T12, but the ability to summon Demi-Phoenix isn't explained from lvl 72 when we get Demi-Phoenix. There's no SMN job quest until lvl 80 and THAT focuses on Arenvald and Fordola. The HW SMN quests went out of their way to provide justification for summoning Bahamut with the whole "the Calamity's aether reached far beyond Eorzea", and for a 1.0 player who didn't finish coil (yeah, I know, that'd be rare) then you were never exposed to Phoenix's aether because Louisioux sent you to the future BEFORE turning into it, and you are returned 5 years in the future. We can headcanon the ability to suddenly go from Summoning Demi-Bahamut to summoning Demi-Phoenix, but the story doesn't even blink at HOW you figured it out.

Job skills tended to have a lot of Lore tied to them, and now they don't, or they outright contradict them like AST cards. Which speaking of AST, THEIR job quests will have to be rewritten to explain whatever the change to Nocturnal Stance is, since their lvl 50 quest has a nod that it's the shielding stance. (Or not, they didn't bother to rewrite the nod that Ewer is supposed to give you magic)

[Kuroka]

Job skills tended to have a lot of Lore tied to them, and now they don't, or they outright contradict them like AST cards. Which speaking of AST, THEIR job quests will have to be rewritten to explain whatever the change to Nocturnal Stance is, since their lvl 50 quest has a nod that it's the shielding stance. (Or not, they didn't bother to rewrite the nod that Ewer is supposed to give you magic)

I miss that too... sure you can handwave a "we come so far we start to create our own stuff" but still...

Thank God. I didn't want to give them a view.

Select questions and answers in spoiler, along with my thoughts.

I wish SE would check here on the forums more than Twitter.

"Packs"? That's at least 6 years planned!

FFXIV players hated that.

So, making content easier is not just an issue with the community not being able to complete it, but the devs not having enough playtesters; playtesters at a competent level?

Doubling down on housing plots, as is, rather than better, instanced housing then?

Unfortunate. Very unfortunate. It's the same problem from earlier. Not enough playtesters, or battle designers to create this content. This was probably the best aspect about Bozja.

Thanks, Yoshida!

The problem isn't exp gain though. It's the sheer amount of quests required to reach endgame, not level 80.

same i just kinda hate him lol.