A Quick Summary of the recent JP Articles

[Norack]

In ARR we will have the current 3 dungeons revamped, plus Toto-rak (and possible Shposhae) upgraded to endgame, the new Lake Dungeon, the Crystal Tower, and 4-5 Primals, as well as hamlet changes, new beastmen lairs, quests, Castrum Novum (maybe?), Skirmish, New Quests, A new main storyline, and undoubtedly more stuff they haven't even announced yet.

I completely agree with all you said except the 4-5 primals. Thats not really content you can do is it? cause didn't they say the primals are just gonna be kinda of a lottery spawn you might find it and when u do u better make sure u kill it so u can get the ability for your grand company to summon it? or am i still getting it wrong?

By content you can't do I mean like if you wanna do a dungeon u just get a party together and go to the dungeon and do that dungeon. But you can't get a party together and go kill the primal cause theoretically you don't know where the primal is and if its up or not even.

[xXHalloweenTrixXx]

I completely agree with all you said except the 4-5 primals. Thats not really content you can do is it? cause didn't they say the primals are just gonna be kinda of a lottery spawn you might find it and when u do u better make sure u kill it so u can get the ability for your grand company to summon it? or am i still getting it wrong?

By content you can't do I mean like if you wanna do a dungeon u just get a party together and go to the dungeon and do that dungeon. But you can't get a party together and go kill the primal cause theoretically you don't know where the primal is and if its up or not even.

Hmm I was hoping they would at least keep the instanced primals differently from the ones that roam in the open world. =( Because if its just one of each primal roaming... not many would even get a chance at one or even to see one. Because I'm sure more of the elite LS groups will have the primals on lock if that is the case.

[Gokulo]

Doesn't really matter how it works, it's still content ^^;

[Babydoll]

This is amazing news, thanks so much for translating!!

[Cynthis]

I'm pretty sure this is in reference to new players. They mentioned how the armoury system was going to be locked until you finished the starting series of quests that would get you to about level 10 on the class you picked to start as. It only makes sense for you to be in the city that the guild is in. I'm willing to bet that the starting quests differ based on the class you start as... at least to a small degree.

Also, they had mentioned that the GC you chose later on would essentially represent your city-state affinity, not where you started. So essentially right now if someone started in Limsa but is part of the Immortal Flames, their character data shows exactly that. In ARR however, they will only be affiliated with Ul'Dah's Immortal Flames. No throwback to Limsa just because that character happened to start there.

I started a discussion about something related in LS the other day. Where will all the 1.xx players end up in the new world? Will we all teleport to the same place and make our way into the world from there, will we end up in our originally chosen city or just randomly appear somewhere on the map with certain limitations to not trap some poor adventurer behind a L99 mob. I would hope to arrive in AAR in my adopted hometown.

[alexhatesmil]

I started a discussion about something related in LS the other day. Where will all the 1.xx players end up in the new world? Will we all teleport to the same place and make our way into the world from there, will we end up in our originally chosen city or just randomly appear somewhere on the map with certain limitations to not trap some poor adventurer behind a L99 mob. I would hope to arrive in AAR in my adopted hometown.

I imagine we'll start off in our home cities.

[nibelunc]

Thank you! I totally love the most of this news.

Changes to cities is nice, more things to discover!
Titan from start is NICE so they make sure we get some great stuff from the beginning.
one of the many leveling dungeons in 2.0 sounds very good too! But I need to know what they mean by "leveling" dungeon. If I have to repeat a dungeon again and again just to gain EXP - that wouldn't be very nice
Hamlet changes to open-type HELL YES! what a great change! Everything "open" is a nice improvement imo.
Raid bosses always giving a drop makes me happy.

Now I am looking forward to ARR even more...

[mbncd]

I started a discussion about something related in LS the other day. Where will all the 1.xx players end up in the new world? Will we all teleport to the same place and make our way into the world from there, will we end up in our originally chosen city or just randomly appear somewhere on the map with certain limitations to not trap some poor adventurer behind a L99 mob. I would hope to arrive in AAR in my adopted hometown.

I kinda figured we'd have a cutscene after going to a shielded area, see Dalamud hit and game over sort of thing; then we'd still be in the same place once 2.0 arrives and get a little cutscene of coming out of the protection and just observing the mess left behind and then the game starts. Main storyline or minor quests might involve taking care of the aftermath of that at the start, etc.

[Biggs]

Hmm I was hoping they would at least keep the instanced primals differently from the ones that roam in the open world. =( Because if its just one of each primal roaming... not many would even get a chance at one or even to see one. Because I'm sure more of the elite LS groups will have the primals on lock if that is the case.

Yoshi said in an interview that you could still obtain the same primal weapons that are in the game now by fighting the primals, but the fights themselves would change. I would consider it content.

[Felis]

I'm pretty sure we've already seen the Grid Aetherits in the middle of buildings and they also said something like they wanted to make it easier to get around or something so not surprised by this at all.

If you mean the place during the gamescom video, it was camp bentbranch

It looks like chocobos don't get to benefit from our armoury system o.o

I hope we can raise a set of many different chocobos ^^
And I hope we can use All-purpose Dyes on them later

I started a discussion about something related in LS the other day. Where will all the 1.xx players end up in the new world? Will we all teleport to the same place and make our way into the world from there, will we end up in our originally chosen city or just randomly appear somewhere on the map with certain limitations to not trap some poor adventurer behind a L99 mob. I would hope to arrive in AAR in my adopted hometown.

Yoshi said that we don't log in at launch were we logged out at 11/1.
I guess we start in the chars starting city.