Discussion for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX

[Felis]

• The Au Ra are split in two tribes like the other races of Eorzea. The Raen are close to the Domans, and have a culture similar to Japan. The Xaela are a nomadic tribe.
• You can level past 50 without any particular quest or unlock if you have the expansion.
• The speed of flying mount on the ground is 0.9 according to the development team’s internal speed measurements. In the air the speed is 2.0.
• There are no enemies in the sky, so it’s safe to fly around.
• Buddy chocobos gain the ability to fly after fulfilling a certain condition in the expansion.
• You’ll need to gain the ability for each area in order to fly in it. Conditions for that haven’t been revealed yet.
• There’s no flying in Ishgard.
• The new Scrip system allows crafters and gatherers to exchange the tokens for items. That will remove the need to meld equipment in order to craft the best items. Crafters that still want to meld to be even better will be able to do so.
• Scrips also allow to change crafting specializations, that will be available for up to three classes after level 55. Specialization allows to learn special actions.
• “Regional folklore” will be the endgame for gatherers.
• The basement required for the free company workshop can be acquired with gil, and it will be necessary to craft advanced housing items and airships.
• Airships will be crafted by combining four elements: sail, hull, bow and stern. Changing the combination will change the stats of the airship, and each free company will be able to have multiple airships. The content related to airships will be updated with each major patch.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/04/11/359998/

[VirusChris]

^Sweet! Liking what I hear about the Live Letter soon far!

Quick question, do you think we'll see more "modern" equipment in the future? I like to have something akin to sneakers, baggy Cargo shorts and a short-sleeve sweatjacket/hoodie for my character or something similar to Sora's outfit from Kingdom Hearts 2. I like to have more clothing options to glamour with to make my desired look for my character.

Also did the explain how much the three new jobs will work? I remember Dark Knight will use MP for its skills but not much beyond that.

[Belhi]

Reworking old systems usually actually takes a lot more work than is obvious. Note that they have said that just adding a new Job takes a year. Now obviously a rework isn't going to take that long but while your not starting from scratch you do have to deal with the fact that your going to be screwing around established systems that my not have been designed to be screwed around with. Things like that can add a lot of time to the process.

I think they would love to come back and streamline their current structure if they had the time but any time they spend on that effects development of new stuff. Reworking just the SCH/SMN thing could push back the next Job to become available a year. Generally new jobs are going to interest players more than modified old ones.

[JohidenWolf]

Can you add something to allow TP to be seen by party members?

And no I don't want to download a freaking ADD-ON just to see it.

[Wildsprite]

Can you add something to allow TP to be seen by party members?

And no I don't want to download a freaking ADD-ON just to see it.

they already said they plan to during one of the 2014 Fan Festivals

[Ladon]

Extending the current tomestone system in 3.0 is a huge disappointment for me.

Honestly I don't think I can put up with any more tomestone grinding and weekly caps. This really, really drains my excitement for the expansion.

[Wildsprite]

Extending the current tomestone system in 3.0 is a huge disappointment for me.

Honestly I don't think I can put up with any more tomestone grinding and weekly caps. This really, really drains my excitement for the expansion.

its a time sink thing, while I agree they should find a better way they seem to think this is a good idea

[Ladon]

its a time sink thing, while I agree they should find a better way they seem to think this is a good idea

Of course it's a time sink, but they have managed to develop one with zero excitement and lacks anything that resembles a good risk:reward ratio.

I mean another whole expansion of killing bosses for completely intangible, static rewards until a number in one of the menus is high enough to exchange for a piece of gear though another menu? Ughhhhhh.

I mean, would it kill them to have dungeon boss directly drop gear I'm going to actually use for once? Or hell, at least make some kind of salvaging mini-game that has you collecting actual drops from dungeons to convert into the better gear and randomize the yield a bit so I don't have to do the same number of runs every week for something. They are really starting to lose the concept of playing a game for this quest to make a 'zero stress' MMO.

[Jamein]

I mean, would it kill them to have dungeon boss directly drop gear I'm going to actually use for once? .

Erm, they do? I mean don't get me wrong I find tomestones as boring as the next guy, but you have raids that drop the same ilvl gear so you have the option.

Dungeons drop subpar gear, because dungeons are ridiculously easy and spammable, so they have gateway gear that helps you get up a little more into the higher content that then drops better gear and the tomestones that also give you better gear.

SE can't win in this one.

Raids drop the best gear, not everyone likes raiding.
Tomestones allow you to get equivalent ilvl gear, not everyone likes grinding
Dungeons drop shitty gear, but if they raised the dungeon difficulty and increased the rewards then people would complain they are too hard and if they wanted to do harder content they would do end game raids.

So the game has options for raiding for drops or grinding for gear.

[Felis]

Extending the current tomestone system in 3.0 is a huge disappointment for me.

Honestly I don't think I can put up with any more tomestone grinding and weekly caps. This really, really drains my excitement for the expansion.

People wanted more tokens (see the anti-RNG threads)