Question for the Devs; will Heavensward include a new STARTER City-State?

[kaynide]

Honestly, in my opinion I would like them to do away with the home town concept entirely. As I feel, I am some random adventurer who just happened to wander into Gridania and adventure it up. I then went to Ul dah and took up Gladiator. Finally I settled in at Limsa and am in Maelstrom... Outside of quests I have not spent any meaningful time at Gridania so I really don't identify as bring Gridanian...more it was somewhere I worked for a bit.

Also, @polyphonica, as I understand it Dark Knight will be played just like any other class from level 1. I got the impression basically that YoshiP did not like the job and class system and just wanted it to be straight Dark knight from start to finish, no secondary nonsense. I got this from the London live feed.

Again, that is what i think YoshiP means by playing DRK right away... It is Drk from level 1 and not level 30.

[LeCard]

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Also, @polyphonica, as I understand it Dark Knight will be played just like any other class from level 1. I got the impression basically that YoshiP did not like the job and class system and just wanted it to be straight Dark knight from start to finish, no secondary nonsense. I got this from the London live feed.

The real question should be what will the skills menu look like. Will all of your skills be under the job tab as a DRK or would there be some new tab just for the new job style? will the jobs appear in the "Class/job levels" list in the row of classes or jobs. and if they appear alongside the jobs will they just continue out past the class list the way smn/sch have? how will its cross class skills work? Can you cross class anything until level 30 or will it be restricted to two "select" classes (because there wont be any real basis for what two)?

[kaynide]

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Honestly, I think DRK will be a class from the start with 2 classes to pick from. It's just my opinion, but I think those classes will be MRD (some tanky skills) and SMN (and not THM). Again, just me, but I think DRK's mechanics will be in debuffing hte enemy to mitigate damage, rather than overwhelming defense or massive HP. Things that slow the target or reduce their damage output and SMN's miasma/bio stuff fits that bill.

[polyphonica]

Also, @polyphonica, as I understand it Dark Knight will be played just like any other class from level 1. I got the impression basically that YoshiP did not like the job and class system and just wanted it to be straight Dark knight from start to finish, no secondary nonsense. I got this from the London live feed.

Again, that is what i think YoshiP means by playing DRK right away... It is Drk from level 1 and not level 30.

I guess you could take what was said at London Fanfest either way. What they basically said is that there was no base class and you'd be able to play right away after you buy the expansion. That said, they also made it sound like it wasn't 100% finalized yet, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.