February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[LisSquid]

Realistic Expectation.

Screenshot of a new female boss/NPC that is stepping on the WoL!

New boss is reminiscent of the RE8 Lady and we're all supposed to not mention it.

[Greyhawk]

SEKRIT!

That's my realistic expectation we will hear. Lot of hype, no content about what's to come whatsoever.

Unrealistic?

Ishgard housing announcement

Engine upgrade

Improvements to inventory
- Not have the materials on your character, but you could also have them on your retainer and it would pull automatically from those inventories - SWTOR does this from your storage)
- Give us a button we can push every time we have a retainer inventory window open that would move items we have in inventory to the retainer if they already have it, so we don't have to hunt and separate items out to put them on the right retainer.

Glamour expansion slots

Housing item expansion

Reduce the timers on roulette penalty

Do something about the MSQ roulette. I don't mind helping people, but sitting through so many cutscenes is, and was atrocious in the middle of battle. I don't bother going anymore.

For the love of God, take Lab and Syrcus out of the alliance raid roulette. This is all I ever get. Put the three raids in their own category.

I know some of this is a pipe dream, and JP won't ever change anything like this, but that's why it's on the unrealistic board.

[Kiurai]

There's 2 events one on Friday and the other Saturday (atleast in my timezone) the first is the announcement showcase which is going to be roughly an hour long and cover about JP and NA fanfests if I have my info right and the one on Saturday is the part 1 of the 5.5 live letter. So I would assume that we'll see quite a bit depending on how much time the usual info dump will take and every expac has a new feature touted with it that they will inevitably announce on the 5th but that's my most realistic take in this.

[Reksanden]

A tease for the Alliance raids in 6.0 - hopefully original to XIV instead of a crossover this time, just for a breath of fresh air.

Showing the/one or both of the new jobs - I'm sincerely hoping for Geomancer, regardless of role, but I get the feeling they'd feel the need to show a new healer as most important for people.

A reveal for BST likely as a limited job - I'd be more than down for it being based on a certain ShB villain (who's clothes I hope ends up on the Mogstation someday) but this just makes the most unfortunate sense.

Unrealistic Time!

A reveal that, yes, they were working on femhroth and maleviera behind the scenes the whole time, and even if they have nothing besides a screenshot to show, the announcement would do so much for so many people

Announcing that a Deep Dungeon would be added after-the-fact for ShB level content, because imo it's very weird to have that type of content just... Disappear or have a level hole around that point if a new one is brought in for 6.0 - not to mention the missed opportunity to explore more Ronkan style designs (which I feel would make the most sense for a DD in ShB) as well as the potential for solidified aetheric darkness as weapons (think reverse-padjali weapons)

It's talked about to death and beating the dead horse, but I'm hoping for news about expanding the healer role. Even just a little more to do during downtime would be a godsend.

[Rymi64]

Announcing that a Deep Dungeon would be added after-the-fact for ShB level content, because imo it's very weird to have that type of content just... Disappear or have a level hole around that point if a new one is brought in for 6.0 - not to mention the missed opportunity to explore more Ronkan style designs (which I feel would make the most sense for a DD in ShB) as well as the potential for solidified aetheric darkness as weapons (think reverse-padjali weapons)

Bozja is the level content for ShB. It'd be better to just make a new deep dungeon for the next expansion only instead of making a second leveling content for shb.

Also lyon does wear clothes so idk why you would want his outfit Kappa

[Reksanden]

Bozja is the level content for ShB. It'd be better to just make a new deep dungeon for the next expansion only instead of making a second leveling content for shb.

Also lyon does wear clothes so idk why you would want his outfit Kappa

I'd meant Ran'jit there, but that's a very fair point on Bozja being the intended level content stuff.

[Jin-]

I just wish they remove that god awful click yes to open this door, portal etc...

[MonsutaMan]

If they truly said, have high expectations.....I believe em.

They have to move units more than ever now, with how much money they lost making that Marvel title. I would not be shocked if this expansion had like, 4 or 5 jobs. I would not be shocked if it was the ToAU equivalent in 14; many regard that expansion as the best one. With the blow their fiances took with that title, they need the next expansion to be perhaps, the best one yet. They need to bring in new players, and keep the loyalist.

I would not be shocked if this one was a letdown, or if this expansion was the best one yet. Anything is fair game imo....

[Aniya_Estlihn]

If they truly said, have high expectations.....I believe em.

Yeah, this is where I am at too. Yoshida has always been careful with his choice of wording when it comes to announcements, fanfests and the like.
He's even gone so far as to tell us to temper our excitement and lower our expectations in the past, so if he is outright saying to have high expectations, then he means it.

With the blow their fiances took with that title

People keep bringing up the Avengers but if you looked at the yearly earnings from their gacha games like Kingdom Hearts Unchained X + Dark Road, Brave Exvius, etc. etc. you'd realize that the hit is easily recoupable in at least a few months time as those games make them way more than they realistically should.

[RyuDragnier]

I'm not going to differentiate between realistic and unrealistic, and just give my hopes.

1 new healer
SCH changes so the kit doesn't fight itself
Female Hrothgar and male Viera
Hair and hat problems fixed for Hrothgar and Viera
Ultimates and Deep Dungeons unlocked for BLU
Trust system in all pre-ShB story dungeons
Prae and Castrum changed into solo instances, MSQ roulette changed to have all mandatory story dungeons in it
50/60/70 roulette gets better rewards so it's worth doing more
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