Famitsu interview confirm RDM use INT and share casting gear/SAM share striking gear!

[Stitches1974]

Well, ffxi had all kinds of strange job groupings for different gear sets. There was light cloth stuff that was sam/nin/mnk/pup, there was heavy armor that was war/pld/sam/drk/drg. There was also melee stuff that was rdm/blu/thf/rng etc and then the caster sets that were rdm/whm/blm/smn (and sometimes blu).

Point is, you could make just about any argument you want with ffxi as an example, but we don't need/want ffxi-2.



And in the original final fantasy there was a piece of gear red mage could wear, but when you upgraded to red wizard, they couldn't. In any case, there's various options for casters to look more heavily armored now, so rdm will be no exception to that.

Was just pointing out that RDM was there before XI and that they used more than light armor.

[Kazrah]

Point is, you could make just about any argument you want with ffxi as an example, but we don't need/want ffxi-2.

If only I could like this line harder....

Also, I have a question. Where exactly in that article does it say that SAM is using striking gear?

[Stitches1974]

If only I could like this line harder....

Also, I have a question. Where exactly in that article does it say that SAM is using striking gear?

http://massivelyop.com/2017/02/18/fi...d-theme-songs/

"You'll be sharing the same equipment as Monks, so you can expect that Samurai will use Strength as an attribute."

[Kazrah]

http://massivelyop.com/2017/02/18/fi...d-theme-songs/

"You'll be sharing the same equipment as Monks, so you can expect that Samurai will use Strength as an attribute."

Thanks! Time to start stockpiling that poetic gear for it and RDM.

[ShinMetsu]

I just hope they won't screw over samurai's gear style. :|
Ninja already barely has gear that fits Ninja as a job imo, Monk is a similar story to me.
Really hope they go more of a FFXI-kinda route from here on out and give MNK/SAM/NIN jobs more eastern themed sets of gear.
At least i feel that would fit their job's identities much better.

[Lambdafish]

Really hope they go more of a FFXI-kinda route from here on out and give MNK/SAM/NIN jobs more eastern themed sets of gear.

I can guarantee that this will happen, Kugane will cause a all jobs to have a eastern theme in at least some gear sets, if not most, ESPECIALLY NIN/SAM/MNK.

[Felis]

I can guarantee that this will happen, Kugane will cause a all jobs to have a eastern theme in at least some gear sets, if not most, ESPECIALLY NIN/SAM/MNK.

I also hope that the new gearsets will be styled around Ala Migho and the new continent, like the HW gears were styled around Ishgard and Sharlayan.

[Kemonologist]

But crafted leveling gear will reuse 3.0 gear surely. We can hope only dungeon gear and end-game gear.

[Feidam]

I don't mind sharing gear. I love my casters. The redmage aesthetic just doesn't fit for a robe user though imo. Granted I am set for gear for leveling now though. Maybe we'll see more tunics for casters in stormblood.

[Vexander]

As long as the AF set looks fantastic, I don't think I'll mind what everything else will look like. All we need is the ability to glamour multiple job-locked appearances onto a single piece of gear. I remember a suggestion of doing so through the Job's Soul Crystal a while ago. That'd be pretty great.