Live Letter from the Producer - Discussion Thread

[Erendis]

Void Ark gear

[Loony_BoB]

3.1 to be released inside the first 10 days of November. Can't make it for October - the staff took a vacation after HW launched, hence the delay.

[Xairos]

3.1 to be released inside the first 10 days of November. Can't make it for October - the staff took a vacation after HW launched, hence the delay.

Good on them, I optimistically believe they work really hard.

[Zumi]

lv80-90 NM and HNM monsters in the airship venture zone with rare items.

You can get mats to make crafted gear.

[WellFooled]

I like that the Void Ark is showing a creepier side of Allagan tech. We've seen Allagan based dungeons so much now, its nice to see Allagan from a different angle.

[Alberel]

I like that the Void Ark is showing a creepier side of Allagan tech. We've seen Allagan based dungeons so much now, its nice to see Allagan from a different angle.

The Void Ark isn't Allagan. It's Mhachi. The mention of the flood confirms the theory that the Mhachi void mages built it to escape the flood that wiped out Eorzea following the War of the Magi.

I have to say I'm disappointed by the delay though. I barely log in at the moment as there's nothing particularly interesting to do. We got no real 'new' content with the expansion; it was all just new versions of stuff we already had at the end of the 2.X cycle. Judging by how dead my FC and linkshells are I'm fairly certain I'm not the only one either. As much as the devs deserve a break this delay is going to impact subs I think.

[Felis]

I like that the Void Ark is showing a creepier side of Allagan tech. We've seen Allagan based dungeons so much now, its nice to see Allagan from a different angle.

In the summary it don't seem that allagans have build it.
It sound more that it was created by magicians at the end of the 5th astral era (war of magi), shortly before the elementals summoned the big flood to cleans the land (see 1.x WHM jobquests).

[Xairos]

Could Exploratory missions be mid-core? OR will people find that the rewards suck and not try it and complain on the forums about nothing to do?

I am excited about Exploratory Missions btw

OH SNAP they dropped the fabled HM and HNM abbreviations... its getting real now

[Erendis]

Lowest level monsters will be like A ranks.

Gear available from island material:

[Zumi]

Upgrade items and gear drop directly from Void Ark, 1 of each per week.

K. its not going to be fun rolling against 7 other people to get upgrade item every week.