Roaming Primals?

[Deli]

i think there are 2 different system in plan.

• weapon primal, you go to instance and fight for weapon drop
• summoning primal, LS can claim them...spawn with time slot. only 1 in a world. if LS use it, then its free again after helping LS. despawn after certain time no use too

*LS or free companies
2nd one will be open world...

primal this name should only give to the beastmens god i think, so that's why Odin shouldn't be primal. some of the lore forum veterns can explain better...


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JPGAMES.DE, Frederick: What about the primal and the summoning?

Yoshida Naoki: The summoning system of FINAL FANTASY XIV is quite different from what you know from other classes, like the summoning classes or the beast master classes. It’s totally different, because to me the primals – Ifrit, Titan, Leviathan or Moogle – are all gods in the game and I don’t want to have several mini-Ifrits on the battlefield, because that doesn’t make sense. *laughs* I really want just one Ifrit in one world and the free company that defeats him gets the license to summon this primal. If that company summons or calls Ifrit, on the whole world the weather will change, so everyone will realize that someone called Ifrit. The world will be like in flames. To me, this is really FINAL FANTASY-like.

For example, if they defeat Ifrit, they have one chance to summon. But once they summon Ifrit, it goes away and someone else needs to defeat him to have another go at summoning him. We will give you more details, but this is how it looks like at the moment – so be excited!

found another article by accident

Another iconic aspect of Final Fantasy games, Summons, or Primals as they are called in Final Fantasy XIV, will provide new content for players in version 2.0. Primals, such as Ifrit and Shiva, will appear throughout the game world and can be fought by groups of players and then captured. Upon capture, the Primal will be unavailable on that particular server until it is used in combat. Once called to battle, the Primal will be released from the player’s control and will reappear elsewhere in the world so it may be captured again.

[Blackpearlguy]

i think there are 2 different system in plan.

• weapon primal, you go to instance and fight for weapon drop
• summoning primal, LS can claim them...spawn with time slot. only 1 in a world. if LS use it, then its free again after helping LS. despawn after certain time no use too

*LS or free companies
2nd one will be open world...

primal this name should only give to the beastmens god i think, so that's why Odin shouldn't be primal. some of the lore forum veterns can explain better...

If that's the truth every FFXI fanboy is jumping for joy right now. Myself included.

[Myranda]

he cap at a level but it would be to the point that only the top players can take him on. But that the point of this primal is to give top players something fun to fight and drop awesome loot.

As long as he caps I'm cool with it, it's a neat idea. A difficult fight is good, but if it got harder without bound, it just takes a single LS/FC to crank it up to the point where only they can challenge it (or maybe not even them anymore...)

i think there are 2 different system in plan.

• weapon primal, you go to instance and fight for weapon drop
• summoning primal, LS can claim them...spawn with time slot. only 1 in a world. if LS use it, then its free again after helping LS. despawn after certain time no use too

*LS or free companies
2nd one will be open world...

primal this name should only give to the beastmens god i think, so that's why Odin shouldn't be primal. some of the lore forum veterns can explain better...


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add in the proof & real interview

Yeah I remember that idea about primals being a special 1-time group summon after defeating it open world from fairly early on in ARR's development. One just has to wonder how closely they're sticking to that.