Thread: FFXIV 2.0 impression

Originally Posted by Angof

As long as I get my house, new crafting recipies for high levels, more content, and some of the lag fixed I would be fine.

The newly designed areas are a huge plus because I love exploring too.

All of this has been confirmed in interviews Im fairly certain.

If I can have Ninja without utsusemi (but still with elemental nukes/debuffs) so I can just DD I'd be happy too. Though any new classes to play around on would be nice.

Unfortunately for you, I don't think ninjas will be quickly put into the game. There are key gameplay types that just aren't represented well in FFXIV yet like pet and magic classes. I'm hoping for the summoner to be black mage focused, but that's probably hoping for too much, given that the game could likely use another healing class [so tired of white mage summoners =(]. /cry.

Originally Posted by Platinumstorm

Unfortunately for you, I don't think ninjas will be quickly put into the game. There are key gameplay types that just aren't represented well in FFXIV yet like pet and magic classes. I'm hoping for the summoner to be black mage focused, but that's probably hoping for too much, given that the game could likely use another healing class [so tired of white mage summoners =(]. /cry.

Yeah I don't expect it in 2.0s launch. But sometime in the year after or next expansion would be super. It was one of my favorite classes in tactics :x

Originally Posted by Angof

Yeah I don't expect it in 2.0s launch. But sometime in the year after or next expansion would be super. It was one of my favorite classes in tactics :x

I think they're going to do a better job with Summoner this time around just by looking at how they handled Bard. Yeah, its kind of odd for Bard to be mixed with Archer, but it gives them utility and still actually lets them do something more than run in circles casting buffs/debuffs. The way they've limited jobs to only be able to use abilities from two classes also helps give the awkward hybrids and unique jobs more defined roles than the old subjob system. They want Summoner to be a support/DD class? Restrict its class abilities to THM and PGL or something, so you *cant* equip cure and get relegated to being the healer with a ton of MP. Focus on Mana regeneration and management abilities, with the summon itself doing your damage and casting buffs/debuffs/light heals/DD spells to add utility. A well played SMN that *wasnt* stuck main healing back in FFXI was a tremendous boon to a party.

I also loved needing to unlock more summons by fighting them, but I think you should get a *few* more freebies than just Carbuncle this time around.

Are we even getting new spell animations? I didn't know that. Looking forward to that, since I don't particularly care for the ones we have presently. The reason I ask is because: in the "teaser" image for version 2.0 where the party is fighting that Chimera, the spell animations which have been captured in the screenshot still resemble the ones we have now. For example, "cure" spell effect which is being cast looks identical to the current rendition, so I wonder if there is truth to this statement, and if so, I hope they intend to change the cure spell effect along with the others, since it's the most offending culprit by far, and the most commonly used spell on top of that.

Originally Posted by Alise

Just want to tell you ahead that 2.0 won't have all the features they advertised in the past btw. Don't hope too high.

Because the last poll Yoshida asked player to choose which features players want to have it in 2.0 most, and this mean that they think that they won't make all those come in time, so they want asked to just select few most wanted first.

See this is a big problem IMO, they should have been a bit more realistic with giving out information.

The media will destroy them if 2.0 doesn't live up to expectation and expectation is high all round because of the 2.0 pdf's.

For the majority of us who are still playing this game 2.0 is going to be an amazing step in the right direction, but people who don't play it or quit back at launch and are waiting for 2.0 to try again are going to much more critical and those are the people SE need to wow.

Originally Posted by Alise

Just want to tell you ahead that 2.0 won't have all the features they advertised in the past btw. Don't hope too high.

Because the last poll Yoshida asked player to choose which features players want to have it in 2.0 most, and this mean that they think that they won't make all those come in time, so they want asked to just select few most wanted first.

Yes this too is also something some people don't realize. There is a lot of info regarding upcoming 2.0 features that Yoshi-P and his team released in these past few months but they also did say that some of these will be post 2.0 so don't expect everything to be there when the new client launches.

New jobs and classes for example, i'm pretty sure these will make it after 2.0

- More voice acting. I really want ambient voice acting (NPCs talking in the background, groaning, cheering, chattering, etc).

I seriously hope that they don't add that, unless there's a switch to turn it off. I don't mind the background mummer like in the XII areas, but this whole trend of random NPC's talking over each other annoys the crap out of me. Save the voice acting for cutscenes.