Stormblood trailer talk!

[rosythorns4]

This fanfest has been complete garbage thus far... between housing spoiled for 4.0 that, by all rights, was literally stated to be coming in 3.0 as of the /last/ fanfest, to a picture of expanded inventory still showing the max 100 feature currently enabled, to even confusion on the timeline by the very people translating the lore in the first place!

I mean granted, the /almost/ 20 years bit could be seen either way, I mean I'm still curious how long 2.x and 3.x have taken up to this point, aside from the statement of "the period of 2.55 - 3.0 being 2 weeks, storywise" to... yeah 1.x taking all of a year, then ya got the part about ala mhigo falling 15 years before the events of 1.x, then the time skip of 5 years after 1.x to 2.0, so sure, sorry if I'm nitpicking, but it's been a good 21+ years....

Ugh... just really hoping the lore book at least discusses some portion of this.

More bothered by what these folks might deem useless skills given how these are the same folks that keep trying to buff astrologian for balance... yeah... that's fair.

[Nezerius]

housing spoiled for 4.0 that, by all rights, was literally stated to be coming in 3.0 as of the /last/ fanfest, to a picture of expanded inventory still showing the max 100 feature currently enabled

Do you mean Ishgard housing? That was never confirmed to be added in 3.x. Besides, they didn't go into detail on what the new housing area is, as it'd spoil the upcoming MSQ.
Why do you need to see the exact change to the inventory? It's obviously a feature that they're still working on, they just wanted to confirm that it's actually going to happen in 4.0.

I mean granted, the /almost/ 20 years bit could be seen either way, I mean I'm still curious how long 2.x and 3.x have taken up to this point, aside from the statement of "the period of 2.55 - 3.0 being 2 weeks, storywise" to... yeah 1.x taking all of a year, then ya got the part about ala mhigo falling 15 years before the events of 1.x, then the time skip of 5 years after 1.x to 2.0, so sure, sorry if I'm nitpicking, but it's been a good 21+ years....

The image about the amount of years said two decades, not almost 20 years. They probably went for simplicity instead of writing "two decades and x years"
There's also the lore panel on Saturday, so it might be mentioned then.

More bothered by what these folks might deem useless skills given how these are the same folks that keep trying to buff astrologian for balance... yeah... that's fair.

One of the abilities shown was Feint, the most useless ability for DRGs. In my years of maining a DRG, I've never had a reason to use that ability.

[rosythorns4]

One of the abilities shown was Feint, the most useless ability for DRGs. In my years of maining a DRG, I've never had a reason to use that ability.

Eh... you're right... the slow effect to it, much like with shadow flare, doesn't really lend itself to useful given most enemies don't truly show an effect from it, but it kind of feels more as if this lends itself more to a retooling of mechanics needed as opposed to just chopping off skills... granted, shadow flare just has some decent damage.

[Cilia]

Based on the hair and eye color, as well as martial arts moves, I'm heavily inclined to believe the woman in red is Yda.

The male MNK with the blue ki attacks can only be our beloved Derplander, all ready to break Garlean colossi and Ala Mhigan rebel scum (not the good rebels) with his bare hands.

I'm... not sure on much else? Dancer and Red Mage? Maybe? /shrug All else I've seen is a few stills, none of them particularly hinting at the story.

[AstralKaos]

Seems to be using dancer poses, as well as somewhat similar moves... but also retaining some MNK moves so it's uncertain, though I'm leaning more to it being dancer - dear Azeyma I hope it's dancer. Also, she's beautiful.

The place is the new "city state" it seems, makes sense as we can't just use Ala Mhigo itself, what with all them Garleans there.

So far, feeling it way more than HW's trailer which left me with the same feeling I got from HW as a whole (I disliked the trailer in parts and have had little interest in what it shown: same thing I felt with the majority of HW itself).

[Atoli]

The place is the new "city state" it seems, makes sense as we can't just use Ala Mhigo itself, what with all them Garleans there.

Yeah, it's the new hamlet called "Rhalgr's Reach", they also showed artworks of it while explaining a bit about it, but I already forgot half of it again already, sorry..xD

[Cilia]

So we're going to be opposing both the Garleans and a faction of the Resistance (probably the Masks)? Interesting.

If that is Dancer, and it is a melee healer, that'll be interesting. It's something I've been curious about whether or not they'll implement for some time. It'll be nice to get a hunnie as a cheerleader to keep me going on fights. (Unless it's a dude, cuz I don't swing that way. No disrespect to the people who do.)

[Atoli]

To back up my claim, I made really bad and low-res stills xD

Lady in the trailer and Penelo (FFXII dancer) outfit comparison:




I think they are quite similar.

[Slatersev]

The Garlean Legatus is named Zenos Yae Galvus

So he's a member of the royal family

oooo that has potential, maybe his dad was the uncle Varis overthrew

[Cilia]

XIIth Legion? As expected from the city-state we have to free from hostile occupation...