New Grand Company Gear (04/23/2012)

[Rokien]

i grow tired of your crying. After 1 year you should have learn this is just filling content, and no whine could change it.
come 2.0 you can have all your long-time goals you can handle, but not now, so for once stop it

good thing i'm not really crying.

[Rokien]

I don't get why people complain stuff looks to 'cartoon'-ish. What's bad about that? This is Final 'Fantasy'. If I want more realistic stuff, I'll probably play other games...
I'm happy we finally get some funny looking weapons/gear!

Thing about final fantasy, they go for a more realistic approach. That's why I like them.

[Felis]

yes i can think of some, can you?

edit im guessing you cant, mosshorn scale mail...

Mosshorn Scale mail should be meldable

[syntaxlies]

Mosshorn Scale mail should be meldable

moogle box says it is meldable...

Anyways if these crafted items are meldable then im guessing they will be junk. Se would be to scared of them being op and nerf the base damage stat. Id rather them be blue/rare crafted not meldable then just be more crafted junk.

[KiriA500]

Thing about final fantasy, they go for a more realistic approach. That's why I like them.

I know, totally realistic! I run into things like this in reality all the time!

[syntaxlies]

Thing about final fantasy 11, they go for a more realistic approach. That's why I like them.

fixed it for you

[Felis]

Anyways if these crafted items are meldable then im guessing they will be junk. Se would be to scared of them being op and nerf the base damage stat. Id rather them be blue/rare crafted not meldable then just be more crafted junk.

Why should they been junk. Just put in 2 or 3 materias

[Elexia]

fixed it for you

Some people seriously play stupid lol, it's quite obvious by "realistic approach" it feels more like a real world than unicorns spewing rainbows everywhere like plenty of other RPG series in the earlier days.

[syntaxlies]

Why should they been junk. Just put in 2 or 3 materias

Materia wont make up for awful base damage stats

[Kiara]

Did anyone else notice that it says:

Then the producer's letter

So these weapons are only for classes then? Probably trying to separate the classes from jobs even more and trying to make them more useful.

Hi All,

This is a great point from Dawiichan.

At first I was wondering also, about how they might balance these new Grand Company / Crafted Weapons and Garuda Weapons.

So what we've heard so far from Yoshida-san is:

In order to deliver the patch to you in time for Golden Week, I’m afraid we’ve had to postpone a number of things. These include job-exclusive weapons, chat log reforms, and other content I touched on last time. With regards to hamlet defense, only Hyrstmill will be ready for 1.22; the remaining two hamlets will go live in 1.22a, which is scheduled for May 10. We also have plans for a patch 1.22b, which is expected to follow shortly thereafter. You can rest assured that we will maintain our pace even after 1.22 is released!

So these Weapons aren't the Job-Exlusive Weapons (although I still wonder how they'll eventually balance them compared to Garuda / Ifrit / Moogle Weapons).

And as Dawii and a few others have pointed out, the English terminology does seem to point to the fact that these "Grand Company Equipment" might really be *Class*-Exlusive instead of Job-Exclusive (which would help to make Classes something appealing for certain players / situations). And they're Crafted, by Disciples of the Hand, so these might be the next "tier" of Crafted Weapons to make them more competitive with Primal Weapons?

Patch 1.22 will see the addition of new weapons and armor available for crafting by Disciples of the Hand...

* New weapon recipes planned for patch 1.22 are for gladiator, pugilist, marauder, and lancer classes only. Weapons for other classes are planned for release sometime after patch 1.22a.

And in Yoshida-san's Letter from Producer XXVI, he mentions both Job-Exclusive Weapons *and* Class-Exclusive Recipes... so I think there is a distinction (and that there really will be Class-Exclusive Equipment (i.e., not just a translation error)):

1.22 -NEW-
High-level recipes -NEW-
Addition of class-exclusive high-level recipes
* Planned to be highly challenging synthesis.

Ultimately, we'll find out this week! (I can't believe the next major patch is coming this week already!) Joy~