Nah, the graphical quality of the new areas had the same textures as the current game. So its at least as good. Looked fantastic at lower fidelity in streams so it can only look better live.
Well, the current graphics look pretty dated too. If you look out at the ocean and mountains down from Idyllshire, for example, it looks like something from a PS2 game. Some things look gorgeous, but there are lots of room for improvements - most notably in large bodies of water (i.e. ocean). As swimming is added, I thought they would have addressed this. It's weird, because water looks great in shallow areas (i.e. streams). There were also issues with mountain textures that plagued Heavensward, that I was hoping they'd upgrade.
I would like to point out he was quoted as saying they MAY add another job once they get the revamps and tweaks out of the way.
Look for Morgan for the question.
https://gamerescape.com/2017/02/18/f...ss-conference/
Haphazardly adding in more jobs for the sake of adding more jobs is one of the worst things you can do when designing a MMO. With each new job released, actually balancing the jobs becomes exponentially harder. Even with the two new jobs we got, many existing jobs were outright overhauled, especially the two ranged DPS, to the point where those two almost count as new jobs themselves. And let's not even get into the total mess that is WHM right now.
The idea that there needs to be a job quota for each expansion in this game needs to go. Many other MMOs have designed themselves into spiraling ruin chasing this idea.
Quality over quantity. That's how I see it. Last time we got three jobs, only one of them (DRK) came out relatively well while another one of them (MCH) was so gimmicky that it turned out to be the worst DPS in the game at that time--even worse than WAR--and the third job (AST) was such a watered-down healer then that entire groups fled whenever a DF trial roulette gave you two of them.
Also, if there is going to be a third job somewhere along the way though, my guess would be that Oracle-like job Yoshi mentioned in some past interview. Personally, I'm just hoping for a new healer that doesn't work around HoTs or bubbles.
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