Quote Originally Posted by TenraiNagi View Post
I would like to put a simple translation I made of the talk show that happened during the Final Fantasy 25th event in Japan.

Battle

  • Combos as well have been modified. Since in PvP it is going to be very difficult with the positioning requirements, players will feel like they are being punished for doing combos. So only the first move will require positioning (not sure about magic) while the rest of the combo will only require TP/ MP to be executed.

Arcanist and Summoner
  • Summoners will not have carbuncle as a pet, but they’ll be using the primals as their source of power. However, not the primals themselves but they’ll use only a part of a primals strength. “A pet that the primals power dwells in” are Matsui’s exact words if I wasn’t mistaken.
  • The summoners will be able to borrow the power of 4 primals (this is what is planned till now, and could be expanded later on). The ones that are confirmed right now are Ifrit, and Garuda.

Thank you very much and hope you enjoyed it
Hi Tenrai,

Thanks for the info! Lots of great tidbits in here. A few thoughts:

  • While I understand why they made the Positioning Changes to Combos, I'd say I'm a bit bummed. Having to move around and hit an Enemy from the Left or Right, or from Behind made things interesting and made battle more dynamic than just standing from anywhere and just mashing your Weaponskills.

    I understand for PvP this would make things very difficult (if they kept our current Positioning Requirements), but at the same time, I wish they could keep the Position Requirements for the Regular Game, but disable them for PvP Colosseum Mode.
  • I'm really glad to hear about Summoners being able to use the "essence / borrow the power" of Primals.

    I was worried Summoners might get stuck summoning sad things like... Fire / Ice Elemental, or some strange replacement for the famous Final Fantasy Summons. But hopefully now, we'll still get the ability to summon the "Power of Ifrit" or the "Power of Shiva"! etc.

2.0 / A Realm Reborn is looking fantastic and this Talk Show just adds more excitement to it all! Can't wait!