Worst Fanfest Ever

[Kaedan]

Sounds like the same reasoning for the race locks in 1.x....

And they unlocked them.

For the male Miquote... kind of. People took the lore from Mithra (FF11) and applied it to Miquote, which is why there were no cat boys. But as I recall, there wasn't a strong piece of lore in FF14 suggesting that male Miquote weren't possible.

Same thing with Roe... players applied Galka lore to Roe. But in both cases, Miquote and Roegadyn are not Mithra/Galka respectively. The primary reason they didn't have male Miquote and female Roegadyn was because 1.0 didn't have them (and they were working with assets from 1.0).

Viera has a very clear lore that males don't leave the forest.
We don't know the lore about Hrothgar, but they are not Ronzo from FF13, just an homage.

[Oriens]

Lore/story design. There's your very valid excuse. You may not agree, but that's the wonderful thing about opinions.

Personally I'm glad they held their ground on the lore this time rather than caving to complaints.

Better brush up on your lore then cause male Viera was definitely confirmed officially by SE lore.

[Vanitas]

*Best fanfest ever!
I'm pretty good at fixing text.

[Gula]

*Best fanfest ever!
I'm pretty good at fixing text.

Lalas are Drawven subhumans confirmed. You bet it's the best.

[Xilibrius]

People are complaing about gender locked when things could be worse, it could be like tera where not only are races gender locked so is the classes. i'm okay with gender locked races.

[DPZ2]

People are complaing about gender locked when things could be worse, it could be like tera where not only are races gender locked so is the classes. i'm okay with gender locked races.

Or gender-locked classes in Blade & Soul.

[kazzel120]

Hopefully, there’s like a surprise healer announcement. I definitely am feeling tired of our current heals.

Guys i can understand no new healer announced this time. But when they showed Gaia Yoshi talked alot about how they can make the hammer work so possibly a new healer they might spring at the last few months before release.

Personally i was hoping for dnc healer to go with the new Gunbreaker but either way dont just give up hope yet because Yoshi hides too much in what he says.

Anyway heres to hoping for a hammer healer for all you healer mains who keep tanks like me alive.

Posted in another thread but i also think he might say something in one of his live letters later.

He did at one point say he's having a long one before the expansion drops.

[Jkap_Goat]

Very dissapointing anouncement.
Started 20 minutes late.
Half the time was spent rehashing old anouncements.
Dwarf beast tribe are just Lalafells with less rights. No announced primal.
Dancer, ranged physical. No clarification on damage type. Slashing would be useful for a ranged physical type.
We're going to an alternate Eorzea, which is basically the same land, just slightly different development.
Male Viera do not exist for the same lore reason that moon Mi'qote shouldn't exist.
Got Furry Roegadyn, aka Hrothgar, which was already sniped from the french leak.

The concept of "fighting for darkness" is literally just fixing the daylight and weather cycle of the planet. Fantastic. Not even that we are missunderstood, we're just literally doing the opposite of FFXV and fixing the planet's rotation to get a nighttime, instead of a daytime.
Half-baked Eden announcement after the Paris FanFest. "It wasn't ready" What, that artwork wasn't ready? A seedling with a small patch of grass in the middle of a wasteland wasn't ready?
Making a point about Gaia's hammer. Did we forget about Nero and Grynewaht? That "teasing" was pointless the moment they ended the English Commentary stream without a surprise reveal of a hammer job (which healers would demand at least this if not Dancer).
One of these is Marketboard City. The other is Tomestone City.
Crystal Tower and Limsa Lominsa.
Lakebed is Mor Dohna.

And then ended on time, despite 20m late start. Fantastic.
Welcome to reskinned assets, the expansion.

You summed up perfectly for me as well, very disappointed with DNC as a DPS and not a healer, I wanted something new, something freshz and I got so excited I started playing FFXI just to get a crack at DNC and I was thinking of a melee healer, something that the other healers don't have and that is unique. Heart dropped when they said it was a DPS and I was hoping for male Vieras because, it makes sense to not have gender locked races. I thought SE learned their lesson with 1.0 and now again because of LORE!?!? male Miqote ( keepers of the moon) is the same way as male Vieras so I am disappointed in those who wanted male Vieras playable. I'm sorry guys

After that announcement, I stopped watching the stream.

[DPZ2]

... and I was thinking of a melee healer, something that the other healers don't have and that is unique.

Great. The "healer" fails and the party all dies because the boss just entered a "zero damage" phase. Or RNG raises it's ugly head and the damage dealt wasn't enough to save the tank.

Or worse, melee healer is so overpowered that the other three jobs are abandoned as part of the new Meta, and WHM is once again relegated to the ash heap, along with astonished SCH and AST.

Why not get the current healer jobs straightened out first?

Oh, and by the way, if Dancer had been healer #4, it would be SIX YEARS before Ranged physical DPS could even hope to make it to three jobs ... (well, two and three quarters, since MCH still isn't where it needs to be)

[LiteBrite]

Great. The "healer" fails and the party all dies because the boss just entered a "zero damage" phase. Or RNG raises it's ugly head and the damage dealt wasn't enough to save the tank.

Or worse, melee healer is so overpowered that the other three jobs are abandoned as part of the new Meta, and WHM is once again relegated to the ash heap, along with astonished SCH and AST.

Why not get the current healer jobs straightened out first?

Oh, and by the way, if Dancer had been healer #4, it would be SIX YEARS before Ranged physical DPS could even hope to make it to three jobs ... (well, two and three quarters, since MCH still isn't where it needs to be)

Dps has 9 classes not 3. Your dumb lame pathetic excuses why not having a new healer is good thing. I really hope all healers strike and you have to wait hours in a que...