Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[RicaRuin]

Just a few days left until we find out anything....

Don't get too excited, they probably won't talk about any of that stuff during FanFest. Usually we got information concerning the battle system in a separate Live Letter that was after all the FanFests around May, so with the delay, we probably won't get any battle system glimpses prior to July.

[Ravor]

This is just my personal experience, when using white mage and astrologian from lvl 1 to 80, I find it very friendly class both for newbie when managing who to heal, area, mana management, etc etc and very epic for veteran/expert player, but while using scholar I felt very unfriendly to play for newbie, very limited choise of skill to use and mana management is very hard, as for veteran/expert player, scholar can be very strict and need a good timing to use any of the skill (also epic btw)

In my conclusion, white mage and astrologian did a good job for newbie and expert just fine, while scholar is a very situasional healer, this is just my personal opinion but i can just use white mage or astro and be ready for any situation at all, while using scholar, especially in duty roullete that need 2 healer, you can always have easier life with 2 white mage or 2 astro, but having 2 scholar? if both are expert, yeah it will be easy, but if both newbie? its gonna feel really hard

[HollyJollyPaca]

Haven't played SMN in quite some time but this possible overhaul is both interesting and nerve wracking.

[squidmonarchy]

I'm cautiously optimistic about the possible changes to Summoner. I've been playing it lately and I feel like it was functional but very bland. The job quests were fine, but the job itself seemed to lack the dramatic oomph that it has in the single player games. It wasn't until level 70 and demi-Bahamut that I actually felt like a SUMMONER as opposed to just someone with a fancy pet.

[wereotter]

I'm cautiously optimistic about the possible changes to Summoner. I've been playing it lately and I feel like it was functional but very bland. The job quests were fine, but the job itself seemed to lack the dramatic oomph that it has in the single player games. It wasn't until level 70 and demi-Bahamut that I actually felt like a SUMMONER as opposed to just someone with a fancy pet.

I'm just cautious about the announcement entirely... might be unpopular opinion, but at level 80, summoner is one of my favorite jobs in the game. So if the job is getting a massive change, I worry that it won't be fun for me to play anymore. This is doubly so considering my other favorite job, monk, has already been gutted to its skeleton so it can be overhauled next expansion as well.

[reivaxe]

Oh? So I was right in my assessment that "Egi glam" is NOT an acceptable example to point to of the devs not upholding promises because Smn is a "living" system of content that can change in such ways that would halt or completely turn progress on this into wasted work?

Who coulda thunk it?

Sounds like they're getting the Mch level rework and may be cutting the idea of egis/ making them just a visual flare or in some other way greatly changing them.

Great interview BTW, smart to not ask questions that would get a flat "Yeah, Nah, not telling you anything cause this is gonna be major Fanfest news so pretty nother response and move on .."