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[Enla]

Is this a real thing annonced or something like that ?

In the trailer its just a scenario effect for the character, his axe from ARR trailer break, so do his lance from HW and his katana don't do better so he switch to shadowy weapon as a symbol of his WoL time being break and having to go WoD to fight this treat of no mesure.

It's speculation at this point based on the visual metaphor being provided in the trailer. Until the live letter section comes out it's little more than wishful thinking. Which, mind, isn't a bad thing. Just that visual metaphors like that are pretty common place without having any gameplay feature behind them.

[Nariel]

It's speculation at this point based on the visual metaphor being provided in the trailer. Until the live letter section comes out it's little more than wishful thinking. Which, mind, isn't a bad thing. Just that visual metaphors like that are pretty common place without having any gameplay feature behind them.

Yeah, its what I was thinking.

But still, count me hyped by this trailer on a story wise point of view (the paradigm system would probably make me sight so hard my lung would break). The content don't hype me at all, but this trailer do the work just fine, I'm so eager to see where this is going and how we'll get there.

[Razard]

It's speculation at this point based on the visual metaphor being provided in the trailer. Until the live letter section comes out it's little more than wishful thinking. Which, mind, isn't a bad thing. Just that visual metaphors like that are pretty common place without having any gameplay feature behind them.

Exactly. Derplander was going through all the forms he's been in inside the trailers since 1.0. Archer to Warrior to Dragoon to Monk to Samurai. I think it represents our journey thus far.

Darn was beaten to it xD

[TarynH]

I really just think it was showing the progression of the WoL from 1.0 to 5.0. As in, just a trailer, and not a demonstration of a new system.

[Kyuuen]

As much as I don't want to be the person to reign in peoples hopes and expectations, but I think you may be reading into this a bit much.

Don't get me wrong, it sounds interesting in thought, but putting this to paper and practice would become a balancing nightmare, both for the Devs and the player.

[Esp]

I think it's not a new system at all. It seems more like the trailer is just swapping through the jobs Derplander has had so far, starting with the old school archer, and going thru them all in order, and watching as each one is getting defeated.

This is probably to drive the helplessness home, showing that his current abilities and skills just aren't enough, so a new power was needed. Some say the Warrior of Light now needs to be a Warrior of Darkness now, but to me..

I think this will be a Dark Knight expansion.

So we have had Derplander being Archer in 1.0, WAR for ARR, DRG for Heavensward, and a SAM for Stormblood. Now, it's DRKs turn.

[Ilenya]

I think this will be a Dark Knight expansion.

If the MSQ has the same awesomeness that the DRK story has had so far, I am all for that.

[Raikai]

I think such feature would over-complexify the way encounters would be designed... And would end in a sort of clunky sytem. It's one of the things that on theory sounds amazing but in practice is bound to fail. At least is how it feels to me.

I wouldn't read into that a lot. It was probably just a symbolic thing, especially because it only showed jobs that the derplander was a posterboy for. Well, except the DRK, but then it makes sense for it to change into that at this time.

[Derio]

No the trailer literally screams DRK buff and rework for 5.0

[whiskeybravo]

No the trailer literally screams DRK buff and rework for 5.0

DRKs do love to bask in the shadows

Inb4 no new tank this expansion since DRK re-balancing.