So dungeon is coming before battle system adjustment? Is this good or bad?

[Alise]

For me, I think the most important that need to patch now isn't content, but it is battle system itself that should get patched as soon as possible with new unique jobs set they the dev promised since the first letter such as Dragoon and Monk etc.

Now, they gonna design the dungeon first and put some battle strategy into it, but wouldn't this mean they are planing on battle strategy base on old "class" not the new "job"? It mean that if they gonna change the class, then all of those dungeon will..again need to redesign again, waste more human resource, and let us wait longer.

So, I wonder if they still planing to change battle system from the core(change everything on battle) or they just plan to add "job" as advance class and ditch the idea of change battle from core.

[Spellbinder]

I was under the impression we'd see both.

From the Letter:

Dungeons designed for ranks 30 and 50 are on their way, and 1.18 will see the start of our reworking of the battle system, as we bring in some changes to that area.

[JayvirDeforte]

Yeah, we will be getting both

[Alise]

If so, then that is good to hear, when I read that letter, I was thinking about "the start of our reworking of the battle system" as that they will just start working on it, while the dungeon already implement first.

I can't wait to see the battle change, because it effect my class choice.

[Eruantien]

they have been working on the battle changes for months and months, the first set of the changes will be going live in patch 1.18. We know from previous producer posts that they have been working in it for ages.

[Frebaut]

How come people don't read what the Dev's/producers write before they post? This would be considered a Troll thread..lol. In the letter Yoshido also mentioned that we'll be getting some info on the new battle system sometime soon. I'm thinking in a week or two.


Happy Trolling....

[Evangela]

1.17b must be another LOLPATCH

[Frebaut]

1.17b might not even come out. He said maybe on it. It should say ( which WE might)...lol

Quote from Producers letter.
"Even if we break off some of the content and release it ahead of time in a 1.17b patch (which me might!), 1.18 will still go live sometime in mid-June at the earliest. Sorry for that."

[Ilean]

I am guessing they mostly finalized battle system changes in design, so content can also be designed around them without them being implemented.

[Peregrine]

Hopefully the battle engine is finished in the conceptual phases, that way they can have designed the dungeons with the new system in mind. They should be finished thinking about it. It's been 4 months.