Thread: Predictions for tomorrow's Live Letter

Hey guys, tomorrow's Live Letter will be a really important one (if not the most important one) regarding Stormblood, so I wanted to share my predictions with you.


What we can expect to see:

Massive amounts of free forum salt. If you have stocked up on salt over the past months and still want to get rid of it for a decent price, now's your chance! Prices will plummet tomorrow, that's for sure. Don't press your luck!

The next death of Final Fantasy XIV. A lot of people will try to convince you that it's imminent.
"wat is dis BS, wow such casual game nowww" "the game's dead, now it's official!"
and similar posts will flood the forums. In preparation for this, I will leave this link here.

Related to my previous prediction:

The next big battle of the Quitters against the Popcorn Eaters. Expect a showdown of gigantic dimensions. Will the war finally end? Find out tomorrow!

The birth of one or more new forum memes. The meme gods have recently blessed us with "100ms ping, literally unplayable", a really nice meme that touched the hearts of many posters, so I cannot predict the magnitude of tomorrow's meme.
Anything can happen. You have been warned.

What are your predictions for tomorrow's Live Letter? Feel free to share your thoughts here!

If the healer changes are anything nearly as bad as I am anticipating they are going to be, I am going to be supplying a LOT of the salt you predicted. I am already dreading the announcements tomorrow, though secretly hoping it will be awesome and make me actually excited for Stormblood. I just can't seem to get excited for it right now.

Originally Posted by Reiryuu

If the healer changes are anything nearly as bad as....

Try playing a SCH now. Most boring class ever. I would love any changes to SCH might make me play it more.

I'm looking forward to it to a degree. I am also predict there is going to be a lot of salt and anger because the changes don't cater to peoples own specific whims.

I wouldn't expect anything drastic. It would be nice for Paladins to finally get their tank stance at 30 or even make it so you get the stances at 15 before your first dungeons (not likely.)

Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Cleric Stance is not a role skill. Only white mages will be able to use it.

This would still be keeping healer DPS in the game. As highly unlikely as this is, I'd find it hilarious just because of how much salt it'd generate.

Cleric stance is being changed somehow, the dev blogs said it. My guess is that it'll be nerfed somehow or that it won't be togglable in combat =p Though I find a lot of enjoyment just imagining what the forums would be like if that were the change lol.

Originally Posted by Reiryuu

Cleric stance is being changed somehow, the dev blogs said it. My guess is that it'll be nerfed somehow or that it won't be togglable in combat =p Though I find a lot of enjoyment just imagining what the forums would be like if that were the change lol.

That was already explained in the Korean Live Letter ages ago... It's Cross Role, not Cross Class which means its removed from CNJ/WHM and made readily available to all healers. That's it.
No doomsday scenario required, we already know what is going on with it, the blog post had no reason to mention it when they'd already addressed it a while back.

Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

They won't make it untoggleable. Yoshi has acknowledged many healers fancy DPS and knows the uproar such a decision would cause. If they actually did... you'll quickly find groups trying to force a one healer and five DPS comp once ilvl sorts out because content simply doesn't hit nearly hard enough to warrant two healers doing nothing but healing. You would also see a sharp decline in people willing to play healers for that precise reason. If the devs don't want healers DPSing, they need to make content significantly more punishing in terms of outgoing damage. I mean, right now, we barely even need a healer for dungeons.

Uh what? Let's not exaggerate.