Translations (JP to English)

[Orophin]

Is it ever unique to the class? No, at best, it was SWTOR with class-specific storyline. It probably will be where you will have to fetch 14 ash arrowheads for every job and redo the same areas over and over again. Also, think about how long they have had to remake this game. You really think a tight timeline is conducive to unique, fun, well-thought quests for every class? Doubt it.

Hence my deathly fear of quest-grinding.

I wasn't implying that each class should have unique quests to level up, rather, once you level a class to 50 you can go back and somehow repeat those same quests to level another class to 50. While it can get pretty stale seeing the same quests over and over, this has been the method decided for progression in 2.0. If you can only do the quests once EVER, that kind of contradicts it. You're back to leve or mob grinding once you get your first 50.

[Felis]

How I understand it the level 1-10 quests are mainly tutorial quests.
And don't overlook this:

Y: There are lots of contents to choose from so we have it set where the obtainable EXP isn’t good just by doing one. For those who want to gain EXP efficiently I think it’s best to do different stuff equally.

So, doing quests alone is not the best way.

[Akujin]

"For each monster the balance is set where you can defeat by using about 5 weapon skills so, if you think of it as time it’s set so it’s done in about 20 seconds."

So looks like we will not be getting longer fights... just more trash mobs.

I'm sure they're referring to monsters that are on par with your level, not something that's ten or more levels higher, or better yet, Behemoth. XIV is moving away from monster battles being the drive, the story of the game is the drive. So whats wrong with them designing it so monsters that shouldnt take very long, dont take very long to lay down.

I'm more curious about the regeneration of the TP itself, if you start a battle at full tp, then does TP regenerate per attack/damage received as now, or naturally as MP does. Or are they designing it so that when your claimed mob dies, your TP bar is refreshed completely to begin on the next target. Thats the question.

[Evangelus]

a new one : http://www.famitsu.com/news/201208/17019805.html

[Madrox]

How I understand it the level 1-10 quests are mainly tutorial quests.
And don't overlook this:
So, doing quests alone is not the best way.

I have a feeling itll be loke many other mmos..
Quests are quick and beneficial until no more for level range, leves or grind or do content to finish level until more quests are available.

[Reinheart]

a new one : http://www.famitsu.com/news/201208/17019805.html

Reading through it seems the questions are exact same as 4Gamer so I think they were interviewed at same time as I recall them saying their will be multiple media's on some interview sessions. Only part I saw different was the last part about the PC specs

4Gamer interview translation link : http://goo.gl/t5zcF

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Mr. Yoshida in the end started playing with the Core i5 laptop.
Y: This is low rendering settings. The frame rate is lower but the texture remains. It's something like this. In the further trees shadow there is actually a secret where when you approach you can see detailed features, when further away it displays with lower resolution. Can say this for Playstation3 version as well but when looking at a still state you won’t be able to tell the difference between the High and Low quality. When you concentrate while moving you may say “Oh the LOD (The polygon changes depending on distance) is different” but that’s about it. We are also making adjustments so the LOD naturally changes. Textures resolution may drop but is most likely equal.

Wouldn’t be hard when lots of players gather for stuff like popular content?
Y: For me I have it set to High Quality at all times but it’s possible to turn off other players shadow to make it lighter or or for myself keep the high model but setup for everything else to LOW or nearby settings to middle or low to make it lighter. We made it so you don’t have to go out to title screen to do this and can make adjustments on that spot. Also lots of contents are instanced in FFXIV 2.0 so when encountering contents such as large scale PVP there might be times where it gets heavy for a bit but not to a point where you get fed up with. Right now the the settings are made so even if you drop the quality or frame rate of nearby characters to preserve your graphics at same time to show as much players possible, so you don’t need to replace your PC.

Mr. Yoshida playing with the PC. Per Mr. Yoshida this PC is actually the one project manager is using in reality.
Will it run with onboard graphics card?
Y: It will depend on the onboard card. However the requirement for graphics chip isn’t that high, if you can turn off different settings it will run, that is the concept. But lots of players will take screenshot of them as Final Fantasy so I don’t want the quality of the images to be lower than what Final Fantasy should be so I’m keeping that in mind.

So the environment doesn’t require Core 2 QUAD or GTS 250 like current?
Y: I will announce the lowest operating environment before the alpha test so please wait until then. We will also prepare a new benchmark software where you can feel the game. We will show more drastic images so please look forward to the updates.

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[Evangelus]

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...17_553623.html

[HiirNoivl]

Thank you for the translation, and all the others, from the bottom of my heart. This is really great news.

You really deserve a hug from all of the community. If it weren't for you we wouldn't have any information beyond English dev posts.

[Munba]

Evangelus is the king of the interviews finding lol °.°

Thanks Reiny, as always.

[Bharata_Senka]

lots of contents are instanced in FFXIV 2.0

inb4 100 threads with title "OMGEVERYTHINGWILLBEINSTANCED!!!!!"