Letter from the Producer, XXIV (01/30/2012)

[Soukyuu]

Hoping there will be an option to turn off the "log out bonus". Otherwise, can't wait to play 1.21

That wouldn't make sense tbh. If you want a bonus, log out in your room, if you don't, don't. You were never able to use guardian's favor outside leves anyway, now you can, all you have to do is log out in your room. And from what I'm reading, as long as you do it, it's not going to deplete, unlike guardian's favor.

So from my perspective, the change is nice. Yay for not being homeless and getting more exp as a bonus.

[KaiKatzchen]

Patch looks really good, no surprise there.

Delay in patch, no surprise there either lol. I've been saying since the last patch that this one will probably come in late Feb to early March, so I was pretty much right on.

Excited, very much so.

[Serdapi]

I would like to say to all those people calling me out when I predicted March release, "Why do you whiteknight so hard?"

[Elexia]

whats a log out bonus?

You get rewarded for not logging into the game while you're logged out in a city most likely, something all generic MMOs utilize. Makes leveling even easier.

It's basically what the surplus system was without killing your XP to 0 overtime.

[Matsume]

Patch 1.21 is going to be the biggest patch yet since the launch of FFXIV service.

The addition of seven classic jobs,
their related abilities and artifact gear,
two new instanced raids,
private player residences,
a cutscene replay feature,
chocobo armor,
a reworking of crowd control,
adjustments to classes,
revisions to how spell-casting works,
changes to food and medicine effects and recipes,
and so on and so forth. (The addition of the On/Off toggle for sub-targeting is another addition I’m looking forward to, being a mouse-and-keyboard man myself.)

Nuff. Said. Thx.

[Felis]

Wish there was more detail on: Implementation of level 30-50 job quests for (add in job). Now I could be wrong or I could be right but dose this mean when we unlock the new jobs that we will be down leveled to lvl 30 and have to level back up to 50?

Im not saying being down leveled to 30 is a bad thing but its the fact that having to level back to 50 (after doing it once) would make the game even more tedious. Now 1 thing that bothers me is if they do down level us to level 30 and than having to quest all the way to 50 is not my idea of fun. As with most if quests SE gives they tend to be long and boring with lots of running here there and everywhere. Depending on how this is done it will either be fun or again annoying.

If you unlock Paladin and your Gladiator is 30, the Paladin would be 30, too. If your Gladiator is 45 your Paladin would be 45.
But you don't learn the Job skills with exp and level ups, but with quests.
First quest with level 30 (to unlock the job) then all 5 levels 1 quest.

Special supply & provisioning ops -NEW-
Addition of unique and untradable item categories

Big U/U equip farming for company seals coming with 1.21 ^^

[Nakiamiie]

After reading the Letter from the Producer XXIV, I have two questions for the community reps:

1) Will the new Primal drop be introduced in 1.21? I really hate with passion the current low Primal drops. For the same amount of Ifrit wins, I have friends with 3~4 weapons already while I still have NONE (and I'm not counting the ones they got in double or triple they couldn't trade me!!!! GRrrr!!!).

2) Also, since the patch is delayed, will there be a St. Valentine's day event this year (a mini-patch for the event)?

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Reworking of crowd contro

Contro? Really? :P

Hamlet defense
* Postponed to 1.22 due to increase in scale

Awesomeness incoming!! <3

-NEW-
Implementation of a system for switching between jobs/classes (tentative name: job stones)

I'm very curious about that. Hopefully we will have a whole post dedicated on that soon.

-NEW-
Expansion of a feature that stops your character if moving and faces the target as part of changes to casting specs

Aren't we already stopping automatically when starting to cast spells? Must be a minor change to accommodate the new moving interruption of spell casting?

Patch 1.21 is going to be the biggest patch yet since the launch of FFXIV service.

And it looks very very awesome too! <3

But, it’s going to be fresh new content that can allow all classes to play an integral role (not just combat classes!)

My, my , my!!! Super-mega-ultra-awesomeness incoming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hugs the devs*

One of the things we’ve done so far is make sure that more character customization options will be going in the relaunch version.

*Puts on extra pairs of hand*
Ten thumbs up! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[Kiara]

Hi All,

Overall a very cool Letter from Producer!

There are lots of things to be really excited about and a few worries. Some highlights for me include:

• Final Fantasy Job System Launch! 7 Classic Final Fantasy Jobs and Job Quests (multiple per Job)!

• Artifact Armor Quests & Content! Can't wait! (but our Inventory space, sigh .

• 2 New Raid Dungeons for Level 50. Hopefully these are the best yet and add a level of interest and intrigue that lasts for more than just a few weeks.

• Player Residences @ Inns - I hope these are "permanent" in a way, and not just a renting situation (where you just have a temp room (as if in a motel or something)).

• Intra-city Travel (Implementation of system allowing for warping within each city-state) - Was this really a problem in our game? I know it's not that convenient to run from one end of, say, Ul'dah to another side, but it wasn't that bad. I guess instant teleporting across the city saves time, but don't we lose some of the feeling of *being in* a live City with fellow adventurers if we just teleport everywhere (now even within the city itself)?

• Food Reform! I can't wait to see a new Food System that hopefully *displays* what effects the Food actually does, and sets up a system that's useful for all players (Adventurers, Crafters and Gatherers).

• Medicine / Alchemy Reform - Hopefully we get a variety of Potions and other Alchemy reforms to make the class a great contributor to Eorzea.

• Goldsmith / Accessories / Jewelry Reform - This is also great. Can't wait to see what new Accessories we get.

• Job Stones + "Additional slot to gear interface for job change items" - I sincerely hope that the Job Stones and that comment about adding a Gear Interface Slot does *not* mean that the actual Job Stone is... another Inventory Slot taken away. I hope it's only a Key Item that we can slot, but we've never been able to slot a Key Item before. Having Job Stones take an actual Inventory Slot (in addition to the 6 Pieces of Artifact Armor set per Job) would be an unnecessary burden and a bit of a slap in the face.

• No Loot System / Drop Reform - Yoshi-P and Team are clearly still sticking to their guns on making an unnecessary Time Sink to make us grind away on limited content. Please RESTORE the Original Loot System that had Raid / NM Drops go into the LOOT POOL so that we can PASS any drops to Friends / Party Members if we choose to.
  
  Let *us* decide how we want to spend our time. Don't force drops into our Inventory that are Untradeable and force a Time Sink on us.

We'll see in a few weeks.

Overall it sounds like a fantastic update with a few things that might be troubling. Can't wait for 1.21!

Thanks~

[Sanctus]

Don't want this to get lost so i'll post it again, very intrigued by what this could be.

1.21
-NEW- Additional instanced raid bosses
-NEW- Addition of new boss enemies for the two instanced raids -

I read that as new bosses in darkhold, which would be awesome and reopen old content for us. But I could be misinterpreting it.

[Kiara]

Don't want this to get lost so i'll post it again, very intrigued by what this could be.



I read that as new bosses in darkhold, which would be awesome and reopen old content for us. But I could be misinterpreting it.

Hi Sanctus,

I saw that as them listing the contents of the 2 *new* Level 50 Raid Dungeons they're adding for 1.21, not Dzemael.