New things from German interview with yoshida

[Quintessa]

TLDR
Short answer to all questions: No.
Reaper has 3 types of actions, scythe, avatar, joint scythe+avatar
Its sounding like a burst dps

Fixed, also:

Reaper: SMN+SAM+DRG = SSD.

Could someone explain to me their whole clipping argument?

Hrothgar: The hair is part of the head mesh. The head mesh is the problem. To fit helmet on the head means the hair will poke through. I think due to the hair sharing the mesh, they can't "zero" it out(hide it) like the hair for other races which are detached as that would mean the head gets hidden.
Viera: The ears are part of the head mesh. The ears is the problem. To fit helmet on head means tickering with the ears. To my fellow viera players, I know this doesn't explain why they haven't made new hair(even unique to the race).

I'm having to remember how skinning and rigging works and stuff as I type this. Also deformation is one of the harder things in 3D modeling.. it was for me at least. Some dresses/waist capes/capes have au ra and mi'qot tails clipping.. You'd think making a simple "hole" would be an easy fix, but they must account for the bones associated with the tails and it's swinging and swaying during certain animations. You have to deform the mesh to account for all that movement.. It will look perfect if the character is standing still not moving. Then the character starts running, and here we go....

Also, they wish to avoid retroactive fitting(I might be wrong here because it's clear they use base templates for all the gear in this game, judging by how much the same models gets recycled), i.e. having to go and edit all the ARR gear and stuff.

Finally, this is all just a best guess of mine, I don't work at SE so I can't possibly know what really is the issues they have.