Live Letter Predictions!!!

[SannaR]

This will probably go over everything we know from the fan fests, all the battle changes and hopefully more info on the things we barely have any on like how NG+ works, trusts, maybe more about Eden or Nier, Ishgard reconstruction, anything about crafters/gathers, looks at other system features they haven't told us about yet while probably showing off a zone or two while trying to not show spoilers. This is the whole 5 course there will be breaks meal of an LL. The only other lengthy info dump will be the patch notes closer to the 28th of June.

[seraseth]

I remember reading somewhere that Yoshi said trusts was too big a topic to cover in a panel at the fanfests and would need a live letter to go over it in detail. I wonder if that will be this live letter or if they'll do multiples.

[CraftOs]

Since Ishgard reconstruction is endgame content for crafters, I would hope they go more into detail about that. Hopefully, they give us a new crafting system. Something that gives us somewhat of a challenge. Not “Prudent Touch” easy. Not “Hasty Touch” hard. Something in between.

Surely they won’t allow the Ishgard content to be unnecessarily accessible and will have to add *some* sort of difficulty to it.

[Iscah]

Surely they won’t allow the Ishgard content to be unnecessarily accessible and will have to add *some* sort of difficulty to it.

"Unnecessarily accessible"? Really?

I'm here for the story, and a lot of my favourite characters are in Ishgard.

I certainly hope their next chapter isn't locked behind the highest-difficulty crafting just for the sake of difficulty.

Story should be accessible. Make something else the bonus prize for higher skill.

[SerLuke]

Since Ishgard reconstruction is endgame content for crafters, I would hope they go more into detail about that. Hopefully, they give us a new crafting system. Something that gives us somewhat of a challenge. Not “Prudent Touch” easy. Not “Hasty Touch” hard. Something in between.

Surely they won’t allow the Ishgard content to be unnecessarily accessible and will have to add *some* sort of difficulty to it.

Yeah, maybe they will even make it hard enough so you won’t be able to do it, can’t make it too easy do everyone can do it and they have to draw the line somewhere you know?

[Nalien]

I'm 90% certain the Ishgard content is just going to be glorified Custom Deliveries.

Wouldn't be surprised if Yoshida already considers existing Custom Deliveries to be crafter/gathering "endgame" content. It rewards the Scrip equivalent of "endgame" tomestones, after all.

Hope I'm wrong, but I can totally see it just being the Doman Reconstruction, just with Custom Delivery trade ins, instead of Allagan Platinum Piece trade ins. Hopefully the crafting section is a bit more involved than "buy all the materials from this conveniently placed NPC", and hopefully its a tad less linear and we can pick areas to focus on building up in whatever order we like, but I can't see them breaking the mold all that much with this...

Ideal world, I'd love rebuilding Ishgard to be a server project. Gatherers bring in the materials, that stocks up the NPCs that crafters can then purchase from to make the specifics to rebuild. World first Ishgard rebuilt would be interesting, as would data center first (even more so with world visit now being a thing). Of course, you do that then it becomes a tad hard to incorporate new players, if you're late to the party you missed it all... Still, it's an interesting concept IMO. Could perhaps have the rebuilding be server based, and have it unlock Ishgardian Custom Deliveries that individuals then progress on for the story?

[Dualblade]

I will complain about your complaint about complaint threads. Gotta get this party started early.

I have half a mind to start a complaint thread soon as well, but it would probably get me banned since it involves talking about other forum posters. Atleast it would be a newish type of complaint! (Not you in case that needs to be said btw.)

[CraftOs]

"Unnecessarily accessible"? Really?

I'm here for the story, and a lot of my favourite characters are in Ishgard.

I certainly hope their next chapter isn't locked behind the highest-difficulty crafting just for the sake of difficulty.

Story should be accessible. Make something else the bonus prize for higher skill.

Whoa, calm down, lol. You’re putting words in my mouth. I never once said that Ishgard’s story should be difficulty locked. I should have been more specific. I meant special rewards. Such as superior gear. If you want the BiS gear, you should complete weekly recipes with insane progress and quality requirements. If you’re a hardcore crafter, you’ll do it. If you’re a casual crafter, or a crafter that believes everything should be accessible, you can have the standard end game gear.

Crafters haven’t had any challenges since 4.0 began, due to Prudent Touch making crafts too easy. Everything before 4.0 had too much RNG, but it was still difficult. I still enjoy crafting. I also enjoy crafting gear for 3 servers on my data Center. Hopefully I craft for all 7. I work from home, so it’s doable. I just wish Square Enix didn’t make crafting so easy for people like me to take advantage of. :P

[ShariusTC]

I hope they let us meld materia for gather/crafter script equipement in ShB, just meld to normal slot not overmeld like other tomestone equipment, currently i use script equipment and without meld it's lack some power to crafter or gather certain thing even with the help of HQ food

I don't need them to be strong enough to do HQ stuff, just want them to have enough power for me to get everything to add into my collection log

[Mansion]

So let's prepare a bingo ?

- They speak about something specific and show a different video.
- They fight with plushes
- They keep a vague tone about healer and tank expected DPS output
- Dancer is broken
- Four tanks made the balance even worse
- WHM lilies are still Cure I / Cure II based (alternative: WHM is still underperforming)
- Machinist becomes a Disciple of Hand/Land
- The areas are biggers, so there will be more aether currents.
- They go fast on essential gameplay items but spend a good 20 minutes on something incidental (a new GATE, or a new instrument for interpretation for instance)
- SAM will need another 3 patches to get a decent DPS output
- Eden is teased and it's more FFXIII than FFVIII
- Lalafell players entering the First are automatically turned into Dwarves and will be banned if they don't end their sentences by Rally Ho. They can't try to get in 5.0 if they have not MIN, GSM, BSM and ARM maxed
- DRG get less animations lock on their oGCD, but get animations lock on their GCD.
- RDM backward jump increased.
- Minfilia gets kidnapped at some point in the story. Twice.
- Dancer LB3 is even flashier than RDM
- Horthgar headgear clips on certain faces.
- The Garlemald situation in Ghymlit is not mentioned.


(Does it show that the wait is killing me?)