TIME: Interview with Yoshi

[Duelle]

If red mage enters the game as a melee DPS, then that will likely become my new main job, almost guaranteed. I'd keep paladin respectably leveled up though.

Ditto. Been waiting for a melee DPS that I can stand playing for a long time. Fists, spears and daggers do nothing for me. Bring in the fencing swords and magic. :O

That wouldn't be bad provided that there are opportunities to re-spec when you want to. I just wouldn't want a character to be locked into one specialty.

Respeccing is a double-edged sword. It opens the option of undoing choices but also makes it part of the routine. It wasn't that bad in WoW until dual specs came out, though.

[Altanas]

To be honest, shifting the Armoury System back into focus like how it was in 1.0 is a bad idea. Hybrids are just a jack of all trades with nothing special about them. In 1.0 you cross classed the same skills regardless of what weapon you had equipped..

WoW, SWTOR, ESO, all use talents now and its so refreshing going deeper into a specific job with specialisations.

Having an advanced merit point system would be enough to go deeper. For example, talenting shields and heals for bigger heals, faster tics, or longer duration, that's enough to cover different play styles.

[AzraelX]

So im definitely becoming a samurai when it comes out. Red Mage sounds cool so my understanding is that a red mage uses magic- based physical attacks. My questions what weapon would red mages use? I feel we got every weapon in the book.

With samurai and red mage coming..i'll never be done with ff14...so much to do..which isn't a bad thing at all

[Lorielle]

"For hardcore MMORPG players, this may seem boring (and admittedly this is an actual piece of feedback we receive), but if we don’t attract new MMORPG players, then we can’t expect this genre to expand. Based on this concept, we took a story-driven approach, where the battle content becomes progressively harder while the story motivates the player to continue."

Lore. Lore. Lore. Look! This is why they're doing it!

[SummerSkye]

Red Mage needs to happen. I can almost feel the upcoming mass nerdgasm already!!!

[kyuven]

@Bolded: Dancer. Dancer dancer dancer dancer! ... well, that's what I'd like to see as the next Healer anyway. :P

Seconded. Dancer was such a fun class in FFXI, and is completely feasible ALMOST as-is for FFXIV (though they'd need to tweak a few things to make it more focused, as DNC in FFXI is very much a jack-of-all-trades job)

[Laerad3993]

Was a nice read, up until the article beneath it showed up.... >.>

Congrats either way to Yoshida.

[LTEvil]

Rdm can't wait.

[nuyu11]

"For hardcore MMORPG players, this may seem boring (and admittedly this is an actual piece of feedback we receive), but if we don’t attract new MMORPG players, then we can’t expect this genre to expand. Based on this concept, we took a story-driven approach, where the battle content becomes progressively harder while the story motivates the player to continue."

Lore. Lore. Lore. Look! This is why they're doing it!

This is pay to play game, Most of the player that used to be hardcore now all working and have a family but want to enjoy the game, Yoshi made a right decision.

And for the class tree I don't mind as long there is balance.
I move out from WoW because of the class balance, where the tank dps is so huge exceed DPS class itself.
And Imbalance stupid Nerf for Monk & Lock where the plate class is so overpowered in PVP arena.

If we have balance it will not force player to pick 1 class only because that class is overpowered and this can create the diversity among player to play what ever they want.

[BreathlessTao]

TIME - I'm happy for that. Rather big. And the fact that they chose to interview him is awesome.

On the flipside, I can't believe he actually mentioned housing. The availability of it is so abysmal that the whole thing might as well be swept under the rug, it's so insignificant. Especially in the context of 4mil accounts. And from all we hear, it's not even been on the active to-do list for a while now. That is just...wrong. Plain wrong.