Discussion for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX

[JonBigwood]

The impression I got was that you can level ALL of the crafts to 60 but your specialization choices unlock extra skills for those classes. Effectively you will be able to craft basic stuff with every craft but you will only be able to craft the particularly difficult stuff with three of them. As much as some people will bemoan this we needed it desperately to stimulate the economy a bit. As it stands at the moment there is far too much supply for everything and prices plummet far too quickly.

I understood that the idea is making things easier than now. Now you need all the classes to top level, to have all the cross-class skills to make the most difficult items. In the future, you may skip levelling all classes to the top level by specialisation, so you wil have the option to go one way or the other to be able to make the most difficult recipes.

[TruebladeNuke]

I think the party loot is only available with full premades, hopefully. if not this can be pretty easy to abuse.

I would certainly hope it's only a side option for pre-made parties. I really don't like the idea of it being a thing in random DF parties where people could easily abuse the new system to hog everything for themselves.

Anyway, I liked what I saw today. Now I'm even more hyped! Heavensward can't some soon enough... Roughly 2 and a half months more to go...

[Zfz]

Seems to be some misunderstanding in the thread.

Alexander Normal: loot lockout is handled like Crystal Tower. Period.

Primals: everyone gets a token each time, and for the designated number of tokens, you can buy any one of the available weapon.

Master Loot: in premades, if you tick this option, all loot will drop directly into a special window which only the Party Leader can operate and designate what loot goes to who.

All Greed: everyone can only greed, nobody can need. Also for premades.

Pass-after-greed: yes, you will be able to retract on your GREED rolls once and pass it instead.

They said it was for NEED and GREED... so if you rolled either, you can still do a "take-back"...
Exactly how that take-back works is unknown.

[Tsukino]

Did they not say when the benchmark would be released?

[qivis]

Disappointing that it is only 50 hours for all quests in 3.0. Means everyone will have all level 60 jobs within 3 months again..... It disappoints!

It is 50 hours for Main Scenario only. That means side quests like job quests are additional to this 50 hours.

[Wildsprite]

Pass-after-greed: yes, you will be able to retract on your GREED rolls once and pass it instead.

I'm 99% certain they came back and said it will be pass after any type of roll. but we could use come confirmation.

[Velhart]

Did you even see how tired Yoshi was? That man needs sleep, yet instead he's working his ass off to keep things moving along. I believe everyone can survive a missed Q&A. The most important thing is for the expansion to hit on schedule with minimal issues, and, even though we are paying customers, we must also exercise a degree of consideration for the team of developers that service us instead of acting like a complete tool.

I have a very tiring job also, it doesn't give me an excuse to half ass it.

[Nekodar]

I'm 99% certain they came back and said it will be pass after any type of roll. but we could use come confirmation.

They said it was for NEED and GREED... so if you rolled either, you can still do a "take-back"...
Exactly how that take-back works is unknown.

[Ramien]

The impression I got was that you can level ALL of the crafts to 60 but your specialization choices unlock extra skills for those classes. Effectively you will be able to craft basic stuff with every craft but you will only be able to craft the particularly difficult stuff with three of them. As much as some people will bemoan this we needed it desperately to stimulate the economy a bit. As it stands at the moment there is far too much supply for everything and prices plummet far too quickly.

Sounds more like it's the exact opposite from the translation Bayohne provided. Specialization will make it easier to make the items in your speciality without needing all other classes at 60 as well. People with all classes maxxed should still be able to make the items, but they'll have to wait until they're all maxxed.

[Hyrist]

Since it's SquareEnix these days, I've got this tiny little hope that the new DRG LB will be the Nibelung Valesti attack from Valkyrie Profile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmsRQ-NehY

Here, let me help out with a more modernized version of that attack:

"It shall be engraved upon your soul!"

They'd have to speed it up significantly to fit within the same animation window of My Final heaven.