Translations (JP to English)

[Jennestia]

It would just be like FFXI again. Before shield blocks were rare but negated all damage, now they're very common (and automatic) and negate x amount of damage depending on the shield size. So it wouldn't be "insanely powerful", it would be insanely useful in the long run.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

For the record, I think it lame THMs have shields... They are not RDMs...Plus who would grab a shield then grab a WAND? Nonsense.

/rantoff

[Reinheart]

For the record, I think it lame THMs have shields... They are not RDMs...Plus who would grab a shield then grab a WAND? Nonsense.

/rantoff

I see nothing wrong with mage having a shield; seen several games in the past that had mage with shields so nothing new to me here. + If you think of it this way... wand + shield is for solo when you need more defense while you're casting + getting hit by the mob, on the other than two-handed staff would be better during party where you have a tank protecting you and the staff has better stats for spell casting.

Anyways if you want to keep talking about the shield please start a new thread on it Thanks.

[Griss]

Remember what they said about actions purely governed by stamina after the change? That's right guard falls into that category. they will be timer based. it all depends on the cool down clock they add to it.

[TirionCrey]

I as a GLA and considering tanking is my main focus, I prefer Guard staying manually triggered. Otherwise they would have to re balance all over again and make "Guard" a proc chance instead of a steady buff. And with that all balancing for mobs and dungeons and whatever would have to be redone.

I like hitting it manually, cause it adds to my "feel" as a tank and improves my immersion.

[Reinheart]

Monmon started a thread about where all the surplus exp/points is going when it is being removed in 1.18. In the past the old dev team said in a interview that they 'may' include some type of system where they reward the hardcore players that kept on playing even in surplus/fatigue mode. Rep has responded to that thread so here goes,

Original Thread Link: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/15272

こんにちは。
Hello,

疲労度の廃止に伴ってこれまで蓄積していた潜在値も廃止されますが、これに合わせて何かしらの還元を行うことは予定していません。何とぞご了承ください。
Please acknowledge that along with fatigue system being removed the surplus will also be removed and we are not planning any type of return.

There you go, the surplus exp is got sucked into a black hole which we will never see. We fed the black hole and the black hole gained exp/ranks and now it's shooting out a dark cloud that is going to take over the world of Eorzea and going to eat all of us. Damn all of you hardcore players!

[Reinheart]

pons started a thread about how our characters just stand still and there is no live feeling to the characters so if it was possible to add motions when you're in stand by mode (when you're just standing and chatting to friends, LS, or AFK). Also comment was made if there was auto emote system where it detects certain words from your chat message and performs the animation... like for example you type in party
"Hey this sucks, NM didn't drop anything" it detects the word sucks and performs animation for that.

Original Thread Link: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/16185

皆さん、こんばんは。
Good Evening Everyone,

待機中のキャラクターにエモートを組み合わせて自動実行してくれる機能を、というご意見について開発チームと話をしてきました。
I have brought the suggestion to the dev team about adding a feature where you can add emotes to characters that are in stand by mode.

まず、リテイナーが棒立ちになっていることについては定型のアニメーションを複数用意し、任意のアニメーションを設定できるようにする仕組みを検討しています。それにあわせて、プレイヤーキャラクターにも同様のことを適用できるよう検討してみますとのことでした。
First, we will prepare several animations for the retainers and looking into a system where you can optionally set the animations for them, along with that will see if this can also be applied to player characters.

実装時期についてはすぐでありませんが、お待ちいただければと思います。
There is no set date on this but if you could please wait.

This is something I wanted and responded also so glad they had ideas for this

[Reinheart]

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New info from YoshiP:

Red = Translation (not 100%! Best I can translate for you to understand)
Blue = My own comments.

First part is off topic so i explained what it was about but not going to translate that one. Trolls will always be Trolls.

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。
Yoshida Producer/Director here.

ちょっとスレの方向が変わってしまいましたね。
全文掲載でも、文章丸ごとコピーでもなく要約なのでギリギリかなあとは思います。
（個人感想と報告という意味で）
吉田が推奨することではないので、これ以上は避けますが、今後は問題と判断すればクローズします。
Marcさんの善意を強く感じますので、Marcさんはこれ以上極端に気にはなさらずに。
(Some people were complaining on the JP forum side that what Marc did was wrong since he almost copied all the information from the magazine, which in a way looks like copyright violation or something similar and trolls started ganging up on him on that issue, so YoshiP is just saying it's not for him to decide but if situation gets bad in future he will close the thread. He understands Marc's good will so don't worry to much; don't think this part needs direct translation.)

少し前のスレの流れに「どのクラスがどのジョブに～」というお話しがありました。
明確に今仕様をお話しするのは、調整の観点から時期尚早なので方針だけ。
仕様公開可能になれば、バトルシステム側へポストしますが、
ジョブの実装はクラスバランスの根本調整後になるので、今しばらく時間がかかります。
（パッチ1.20以降を想定しています）
A while ago in the thread there was a talk about which job will be for what class.
It's too early to talk about this right now; so just the plan for now.
Once the information is set and allowed to be announced, I will post post on the battle system side.
Implementation of the job will be after adjustments to the class balance, so it will take some more time.
(Planning [supposed] post 1.20) //ADDED forgot this part, sorry

松井、権代、吉田で方針を作っていますが、初期ジョブは「パーティバランス」を前提にしています。
つまり、
Making the plans with Matsui, Gondai and myself, but for beginning jobs we are going by Party Balance, which means.

・Tank 壁役
・Attacker　近接ダメージ役 (Close Range)
・Damage Dealer(Nuker)　遠距離ダメージ役（MAXダメージ）(Long Range)
・Healer/CCer　回復役（兼足止め役）
・Buffer/CCer 補助役（兼足止め役）
(He put the English himself so no need for me to translate here.)

が揃うことが前提です。
これは根本であり、もちろん「それしかできないわけではない」です。
これに当てはめて色々考察して頂けると、良いかなーと思います！
This is the root and doesn't mean this is the only thing you can do.
If you can use this as general idea would appreciate it!

EDIT: Forgot the last part about the 1.20 in one section. Jobs will be post 1.20

[Kallera]

Monmon started a thread about where all the surplus exp/points is going when it is being removed in 1.18. In the past the old dev team said in a interview that they 'may' include some type of system where they reward the hardcore players that kept on playing even in surplus/fatigue mode. Rep has responded to that thread so here goes,

Original Thread Link: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/15272



There you go, the surplus exp is got sucked into a black hole which we will never see. We fed the black hole and the black hole gained exp/ranks and now it's shooting out a dark cloud that is going to take over the world of Eorzea and going to eat all of us. Damn all of you hardcore players!

Level 5's Dark Genie is going to pay us a visit?

[Sorel]

There you go, the surplus exp is got sucked into a black hole which we will never see. We fed the black hole and the black hole gained exp/ranks and now it's shooting out a dark cloud that is going to take over the world of Eorzea and going to eat all of us. Damn all of you hardcore players!

Level 5's Dark Genie is going to pay us a visit?

I was more thinking Rapthorne, the Dark Lord from DQ8.