Special Letter from the Producer (featuring special guests!)

[Jess72]

Yoshida here

Fantasia potions are now available on the Mogstation

Enjoy!

[Heat]

Greetings everyone.
Yoshi-P here.

I got lots of requests to involve FATES in every thing the games has to offer, i know how you love these FATES, so we the Dev. team decided the following:

1- when you log in you have to do 10 fates or you cant play.
2- each quest you do that dose not have FATE in it, you have to do FATE after you finish the quest or you dont get reworded,
3- we decided to include FATE in coil.
4- crafting and gathering classes have new FATES to do.
5- we are changing the name of the game to FFXIV A Realm ReFATES.
5- and you cant log out unless you have done 100 FATES.

thanks all and stay toned for new FATES to come

[Talamasca]

Greetings FFXIVers Yoshi-P here!

Due to constant speculation, and despite our previous denials I'm finally letting the cat out of the bag.
Eorzia is indeed part of the world of Ivalice!

We apologise for constantly misleading you in our efforts to avoid spoilers for our upcoming content, but have decided to yield to demands in hopes it bolsters players excitement.

Look forward to hearing more in the near future!

[Altonfenri]

We are raising atma drops from 1% so ppl don't play 3 days without getting one!

[Seiryuukishi]

Greetings Everyone, Yoshi-P here!
I previously announced that Fantasia potions were on sale via the Mogstation. As an added bonus we are giving you one free Namingway Token to change your character name if you wish. Please look forward to it!

[Steffie]

Greetings FFXIVers Yoshi-P here !

Had you guys ever wondered if you are the warrior of light, why do you need adventurers to help you out in dungeons and in beating the primal. Well the answer is this, I didn't finished the combat system. I am very sorry but the combat system you all have been playing was a temporary substitute. Now you get to experience the power of the Warrior of Light. I present to you Patch 2.9000+. If Vegeta ever see this gameplay, he will truly say "It's Over 9000"

Here is just a teaser of two class's change

- Each member in a party will receive their own limit break meter and each job have their own limit break tailored to their lore and skillset
- You may now queue a dungeon solo. It will be hard but with skills you will prevail.

Paladin Armor now have piety stats bonus.
Fast Blade now grant you haste.
Rampart now also reflect some of the damage taken back to the enemy
Savage Blade lower the target's slashing resistance
Fight or Flight renamed to Fight or Fight. In additon to damage bonus, all paladin's skill will deal pure damage, unmitigated by enemy's resistance.
Flash now deal damage comparable to that of White Mage's Holy, while healing other members around the paladin. Damage and heal scale off Piety and Flash will be renamed into Holy Nova.
Convalescence now also increase your maximum hp and the healing bonus will now scale off Piety
Riot Blade now also restore health along with mana. Health / Mana restoration now scale off Piety
Shield Lob's range increased to 25 yard. Double tapping Shield Lob will cause the shield pull the target to you.
Shield Bash no longer effected by global cooldown
Provoke will now cast the enemy to mindless attack you for 5 second and will feature actual taunt by the voice actors.
Rage of Halone will now affect enemy behind the target just like how the animation shows. The reduced strength from the enemy will be given to you. Multiple debuff on enemy STACKS.
Shield Swipe no longer effected by global cooldown
Having sword oath on will now result in swords of light raining down on your target on every auto attacks. Sword of Light damage scale off both Piety and Strength. Can activate both Sword and Shield Oath
Awareness now increase dodge chance to 100%
Cover now summon an image of you to take the damage for your ally. The damage won't be transferred to you.
Sentinel now make you immune to damage
Shield Oath now put blind debuff on enemy facing you and constantly damage your target. Can activate both Sword and Shield Oath
Tempered Will will now cure every debuff.
Spirit Within no longer scale off health, instead it scales off Piety.
Bulwark now results in you blocking every enemy attack.
Circle of Scorn now pull in all enemy in combat to you before damaging them.
Hallowed Ground now roots all enemy around you and damage heavy damage to them. Damage scales off Piety.
Paladin Limit break is now called Bath in the Light. Heals the entire party to full health, and also resurrecting all dead players and make them immune to damage for 10 second.

Monk armor now also have dexterity stat bonus and monk will have increased skillspeed from dexterity too.
Bootshine now disable enemy during the animation.
True Strike now never miss and is always a critical hit.
Feather Foot will now make you dodge every single attack.
Snap Punch's animation will be made faster
Second Wind now also restore TP
Haymaker now also stun the enemy for 3 second in addition to the slow.
Internal Release now make every attack a critical hit in it's duration
Touch of Death no longer deal damage over time, it put Doom debuff on enemy.
Twin Snake's buff will also allow double strikes of all the skills and auto attacks in it's duration.
Fist of Earth now imbue you with the power of Titan. Turning all auto attacks into Titan's Mountain Buster
Arm of Destroyer no longer silence, it stuns enemy.
Demolish now disable enemy during it's animation.
Rockbreaker now have the effect and power of Titan's Landslide.
Fist of Wind now imbue you with the power of Garuda. Turning all auto attacks into Slipstream.
Shoulder Tackle now shoves all enemy along the way to your target.
Steel Peak's stun duration now increase to 6 second.
Fist of Fire now imbue you with the power of Ifrit. Turning all autoattacks into Incinerate
Mantra now heals everyone to full health along with the increased healing effect.
One Ilm Punch now steal the buff instead of just removing it.
Howling Fist now have the power of a Rank 1 Damage Limit Break
Dragon Kick also disable the enemy during it's animation.
Perfect Balance now make you an avatar of Rhalgr The Destoryer himself. Tripling player's damage and all skill will teleport the player to the target in it's duration.
Monk's Limit break is now called Omnipunch dealing the damage of Rank 3 Limit Break while reducing the target's resistance.


Please look forward to more class's epic changes

[Synra]

Greetings, Yoshi-P here!

You may have noticed that there were no class balance changes in the recent 2.2 patch and I wanted to shed some light on that. After seven months of data we have determined we need to make a few important changes, that were not ready to go live in 2.2.

In 2.25, we will be removing the CNJ, WHM and SCH classes/jobs until further notice. We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but we do not foresee any balance issues with removing these classes/jobs at this time. This is only temporary, I assure you we plan to return these classes/jobs to the game along with our first expansion pack.

Another important change we will be making is to address lag issues. In an effort to improve overall user connections, in 2.25 we will be minimizing our network activity by adjusting player positioning updates from the current once every 0.1 seconds, to once every 5 seconds. Once again, we foresee no serious balance issues with this.

[Merle]

Monk armor now also have dexterity stat bonus and monk will have increased skillspeed from dexterity too.
Bootshine now disable enemy during the animation.
True Strike now never miss and is always a critical hit.
Feather Foot will now make you dodge every single attack.
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Monk's Limit break is now called Omnipunch dealing the damage of Rank 3 Limit Break while reducing the target's resistance.

Holy...

I want this. NOW.

[VampiricPadraig]

Greeting everyone.

We have acknowledged the issues surrounding certain instances (eg. Aurum Vale) that is preventing people from continuing with their Relic quest. We apologise and we will whip the developers until the issue has been resolved. Please look forward to it.™

For a limited time, All gear that can be obtained from The Second Coil of Bahamut, will be made available for free through the vendor in Mor Dhona. We will have a announcement coming soon. Please look forward to it.™

And finally, the most important news that I have been able to bring to any Letter.......We will be releasing FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN on Linux - Please click here to find out about our Linux version - http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/linux/

That is it from this Letter of the Producer. Our next Letter from the Producer LIVE will be at the end of the month showing some 2.3 content including Personal Housing and Chocobo Racing from FINAL FANTASY XIII.

Yoshi-P

[Mattlex]

[QUOTE=DarkStar;1994414]Second off, yes, I do in fact drink the tears of every player who comes to the forums to complain. They are quite delicious~.

Anyway,QUOTE]

Omg I laughed so hard at this!