Thread: New interview from Famitsu Connect-On Magazine Aug.2011

Originally Posted by DurtiMonkeyToe

The Dev Team that promised you content in September is gone.

Uhh... What the hell are you talking about? September is the end of summer is it not?... which is the deadline Yoshi-P set not more than a month ago.

Originally Posted by JayvirDeforte

Uhh... What the hell are you talking about? September is the end of summer is it not?... which is the deadline Yoshi-P set not more than a month ago.

I misread your post. I thought you meant the content that Tanaka's team promised last September.

Originally Posted by giftforce

Siiiigh.

I swear on my life FFXIV has one employee.

Short life then.

Originally Posted by Amsai

"The Materia system will allow you to make the best gear, and for those interested in the best gear; the materia system is balanced in a way where attaching/adding materia to crafted gear will have better results then attaching them to NM dropped gear."

I apologize if my translation is not 100% correct, but it does literally say that Materia enhanced crafted gear will show better results then Materia enhanced NM dropped gear. Kristina also included this information " [materia buffed gear] > [NM dropped gear]" just not a word to word translation. So thank you again Kristina for the translations and the new information.

If this is accurate potrayal of the final plans involving NM and Crafted gear in regards to Materia enhancement, then I have a big problem with it. I suppose it depends on how cut and dry this is. If it is the exception and not the rule, as in super rare for someone to get lucky enough to have a second materia attached to gear, then that would be fine. It would be like people having Ninurta's Sash vs Speed Belt or along those lines.

However, if this is not the case than I have a serious problem with it. In my opinion, it defeats the purpose of NM dropped gear to a certain extent. If I work hard to get a rare drop from a NM, then I enhance it with the best possible materia it makes sense to me that it would be better than a materia enhanced crafted gear. At the very least, it should be equal in terms of what is the best or have trade offs. The only way this would be acceptable to me is if as I said before its either equal with trade offs or if its a very very very rare occurence. Speaking specifically of trade offs: Maybe something like materia enhanced crafted gear makes the best "Class" armor and materia enhanced NM dropped gear makes the best "Job" armor?

We'll need to see how it plays out.
Simplifying to raw numbers for a working example:

Crafted sword has an attack of 200.
NM drop sword has an attack of 220.

Crafted sword with materia becomes sword with an attack of 230.
NM drop sword with identical materia becomes sword with an attack of 240.

So, it is entirely possible for NM gear that is more powerful than crafted gear to remain more powerful if materia is applied to both. It's also possible that your fears will be accurate.

The leveling comment could be a great thing for XIV. A focus on tactics for battles rather than just leveling up to a certain point and brute forcing your way through an area or boss/mission would be great.

I think the talk surrounding bard is that, well its the odd duck of the list. Every thing else has a pretty logical corresponding host class to mesh with.

I would laugh my rear end off if it was crammed into mrd and buffed the party by singing sea shanty's and playing a squeeze box. Yo ho ho and all that.

Thank you for the translations! Very excited for the Ifrit Battle Quest, Quest Hub Encampments, the Job system, Achievement Rewards, Beast Tribe Lairs and more! Especially happy to hear about the Chocobo/Mount System again from them!