Live Letter LXXXVI 86 Discussion Thread

[Exmo]

They should add expert crafting during an Any Way the Wind Blows style event. How long you have to finish crafting the item is entirely based on RNG.

ngl that would be fun

[BokoToloko]

They should add expert crafting during an Any Way the Wind Blows style event. How long you have to finish crafting the item is entirely based on RNG.

Reminds me of an idea I had during ARR about letting crafters enter a Navel instance: Titan for All, Craft or Fall.

[MicahZerrshia]

What else were you envisaging within FFXIV's crafting system? It doesn't seem capable of much beyond some variety of [craft thing] > [hand in thing].

I would love to see them bring back some version of 1.0 crafting but with a few changes. Like interact with crafting station or part of one of the structures and it would bring up a new menu, maybe a new pov interface where you can see some graphic of whats being built them you have to balance element levels while improving quality. We don't need to use the abilities we have with something different from standard crafting, give us a new menu specific to cosmic exploration like they do with pvp. But with standard crafting it will just consist of hitting a macro and watching netflix again.

It's definately doable with the one thing SE is lacking lately, creativity.

[CidHeiral]

I waited all this time for Cosmic Exploration only to be glorified levequests? Great.

Player shocked to learn that the crafting and gathering zone consists of crafting and gathering.

• I'm not sure where Gerolt is supposed to be, but it's giving me Bozja vibes more than anything. Have we seen that emblem in the top-right background before? It feels familiar but I can't say where from.

The mossy stone walls in the background seem to match the ones from Crescent Isle so he's most likely somewhere there, especially since the weapon quests are tied to the zone.

[DynnDiablos]

Player shocked to learn that the crafting and gathering zone consists of crafting and gathering.



The mossy stone walls in the background seem to match the ones from Crescent Isle so he's most likely somewhere there, especially since the weapon quests are tied to the zone.

I understand it has that, but it could have been a little more involved. Nothing about what they've shown looks engaging at all. And what's with your nasty attitude? Someone crap in your cereal this morning?

[Mikey_R]

I understand it has that, but it could have been a little more involved. Nothing about what they've shown looks engaging at all.

But that is what they are asking you. What would be considered 'more involved' to you? What did you expect to see?

[CidHeiral]

I understand it has that, but it could have been a little more involved. Nothing about what they've shown looks engaging at all.

It probably is. You saw a preview, not the entire content from start to finish.

And what's with your nasty attitude? Someone crap in your cereal this morning?

What an absolute joke. Five crappy MSQ quests and a raid tier I will only complete once, is not worth an iota of my time right now. It is sad my love for this game just continues to get replaced with more frustration and hate.

Project much? lol

[Iscah]

The special site got updated as well:

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/dawntrail/patch_7_2/

• The new Loporrit character in the Cosmic Exploration screenshots seems to have been coloured based on the Namingway minion.

• There's a picture from the dungeon of players fighting the boss, wearing what is presumably the dungeon gear -- it seems to be a recolour of the Lost Allagan sets (available from the Stormblood Centurio vendor) -- and unfamiliar weapons that I'm going to guess are new crafted gear. The equivalent picture for 7.1 has them using Archeo Kingdom crafted weapons.

• I'm not sure where Gerolt is supposed to be, but it's giving me Bozja vibes more than anything. Have we seen that emblem in the top-right background before? It feels familiar but I can't say where from.

Relevant screenshots:

[Mikey_R]

So, they have added to cosmic exploration one of the things people have wanted in Eureka for ages. Level syncing.

[Tint]

I think Yoshi's skirt just glitched out while fighting the Goobbue, a bug I wanted to report for years but could never properly recreate... It has something to do with battle animations, happens all the time on BLM, basically never on WHM...