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Maybe when the game is ending in 6 years they'll just go "fuck it, do whatever you want" >_>
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Beast Tamer is a possibility for a future Limited Job.

Damn. =/ I guess it's cool they can implement these Jobs in some capacity, but I would love to see them do something to make them playable in regular content.
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Oh, RIP. BLU is going to be solo content only. There are too many skills that can completely throw off the balance of the game, and only taking those skills into a raid would defeat the point of learning all of them.

There is no L5 Death because it would be 100% broken. Gotta say, as much as I'll miss it, good call there.
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Also they misspelled "Aether" XD But apparently Aehter(heh) is going to be a big raider DC, and Crystal will be the RP DC. That leaves Primal to... be... the uh... whatever else there is to do lol.
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Didn't get to watch the live letter, but apparently a "fan favorite" or something to that effect is showing up in the final 24-man. And they already showed that MCH is getting Balthier's gear.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Fran.png <_<
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They're putting both Balmung and Mateus in the new DC. Those mad men, those absolute mad men.
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Calling it now, when they "announced" Viera yesterday, everyone pictured this:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/4/42/XII_Viera.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20100416201314
Tall, slender, dark, elegant, etc.

But, what we're actually getting is this:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/c/c2/Midia_RW.png/revision/latest?cb=20161005211327
Shorter, cuter, pale, etc.

The most popular race/gender combinations in FFXIV are cute ones. So, Miqo girls, Auri girls, Lalafells. They know this, so they don't want to make a tall race since few people play Elezen and Roegadyn.

Ideally, since there will presumably be two clans, the best thing they could do is make one clan the tall elegant version, and make the other the shorter, lalafell with bunny ears version. Make everyone happy. I don't see that happening though.
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Whoa, that is incredible. Keep up the good work!
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Anyway, back to FFXV!

Went over to The Rock of Ravatogh. I found the weapon there, my second outside of the initial 2 you get in the tutorial. While I was there I did a couple hunts. Oh boy. The first one, against six wasps was the hardest thing I've done in this game so far. I used pretty much all my phoenix downs, mega elixers and most of my hi elixers. I would use a mega elixer, and about 4 seconds later I would have to use another one. The problem was they have NO tells for there attacks as far as I can tell, my weapons, despite having hundreds of points of damage on them, were doing next to nothing, and that was if I could even hit them at all.

Long story short, fuck wasps.

Then I did another one where I fought 7 wyverns, and that was a piece of cake, despite being a higher level fight. Didn't have to use a single curative.

Edit: Oh, also, Noctis is an asshole lol. At the peak of the Rock, Prompto was like "wow, this view alone was worth the climb!" and Noctis was just like "Ehhh, no it wasn't" lmao
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This looks like it's probably the collector's edition art

https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Final-Fantast-XIV-Shadowbringers-Art-600x800.jpg

Amano is talented af
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Especially since TP and MP are now one resource... I might have picked a bad time to become a DRK main lol
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Entity13 posted...

papercup posted...

Derplander is a Dark Knight now.

My joke being that, since 5.0 is the Drk expansion, Drk will explicitly suck until mid expac at the earliest.

Too true
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Oh, the World Visit feature is coming BEFORE 5.0
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/55294077867917312/513059490556411904/123.png

Okay, general info announced:
Title: Shadowbringers
Releasing Early Summer 2019

Derplander is a Dark Knight now.
Thancred has a Gunblade
A new calamity, bringing the world into the 8th and final Umbral Era
We will be going to Garlemald, and taking down the Empire
5.0 we will deal with the Ascian threat
We will learn more about Hydaelyn and Zodiark
Warrior of Light will have to become a Warrior of Darkness (Flood of Light coming back in a big way?)
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Level cap raised to 80
Multiple new Jobs
Skill and bar pruning
Role Action rework
MP and TP combined into one resource(this is the thing I'm most worried about. This can completely break jobs like DRK or RDM)
Shields will have a visible health bar
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New zones will have much more of a "high fantasy" feel to them.
New zones include: Rak'Tika Greatwood. Will be very vertical. Settlements will be in the treetops. This looks like a Viera zone.
Amh Araeng looks like a city on a cliffside, very windy. Has an Aetheryte
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New Beast tribe: Nu Mou
New NPC races include Pixies, and Dwarves
New Primals of course
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A whopping 9 dungeons will be available at launch
New raid will be "very Final Fantasy"
New 24-man raids. But no info given since Return to Ivalice isn't over.
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Crafters and Gatherers will get tons of love
DoH/DoL will be able to rebuild The Holy See of Ishgard
...So that Ishgard will get a brand new housing ward!!!
Farming will be a new Gatherer feature. Probably not a DoL class.
New gear and recipes
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New system: Trusts! Idea kind of similar to FFXI system. Trusts will be able to run current dungeon content, like your GC squadron for old content
Only a few NPCs will be available at launch, they will add more over time.
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New system: New Game +
Replay the story at your current level and item level (This sounds like scaling difficulty to me)
More info coming later
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New System: World Visit
City-State Aetherytes will allow you to travel between different servers on the same data center! Yes!!
Can do MSQ, hunts, treasure maps, etc. on visited world
They want Balmung players to get out and visit other worlds lol
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32-Bit Window support is ending!
NA/EU getting NEW Data Centers! Plus old DCs will have servers redistributed. In addition to this, they will offer free server transfer for a limited time.
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New playable race! Very VERY heavily implied to be Viera
FINAL new playable race they will ever implement.
We will see a new race NPC in 4.5 24-man raid.
Yoshi was wearing a Bugs Bunny shirt, mentioned Peter Rabbit.
It's Viera, we're getting Viera
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New Jobs
Hint at Gunblader in trailer.
Blue Mage coming in 4.5!
BLU is the first "limited job". It is not associated with any class, and is capped at level 50. It HAS to learn monster actions. There will be a special BLU instance to learn actions. level cap will raise throughout 5.x
BLU uses pimp canes.
Heavily implied there will be tons and tons of actions to learn, and they will be difficult to acquire.
Sounds like something to do between 4.5 and 5.0

Some thing sounds good, others sketchy. Overall better than I was expecting, and I've very excited to learn more at Paris fanfest in February
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Greenfox111 posted...

papercup posted...

Blue Mage coming... in 4.5!!!!!!

seems it will be capped at 50 for a while :(

Yeah it sounds weird. I wonder if the goal is by the end of 5.x it will be level 80 capped slowly. That's a strange way to do it. Maybe it's because it HAS to learn monster actions, so they want you to have ample time and opportunity to learn them.
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Blue Mage coming... in 4.5!!!!!!
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This expansions is going to be insane.
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Fan fest stream starting soon
https://www.twitch.tv/finalfantasyxiv
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There is a new playable race, female only, but it's Seeq.
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Is a very good Star War :)
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My final prediction before fanfest:

They are terminating console and PC development of the game to focus on the mobile market.

Don't you guys have phooooooones?
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BTW, here's a link to the event schedule for anybody curious. There's also a link to the livestream at the bottom.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/2fc19abcaabd6b2849c047f06286fa16d3963aee

5.0 announcement should be in the opening keynote.
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Ahh, I didn't know I could use coins like that. >_> I'll give that a shot XD

Oh, also, 5.0. So in 4.x, expanding housing was a HUGE issue, for months and months. That, and a ton of glamour and other related systems got expansions/additions/reworks/whatever. I hope that they kind of just used 4.x to get that stuff out of the way, and 5.0/5.x they focus on things people want, like more dungeons and trials content per patch. Although, that being said, the glamour dresser does need some work. Even if they don't add extreme versions, I would love the 5.0 Hildy questline to add more fun, silly trials like the Gilgamesh fights.

Apparently we might be getting a Yojimbo trial in the 4.5 Hildy quests, I really hope that's true.

Also, whatever happened to Ozma (Savage)?
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Unlocked Rank 4 hunts. I don't know what else more I can do to get tons of exp. I think I'm just gonna go rest at the resort with about 70k exp saved up. So I'll probably get like 10 levels from all that lol
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I hear people already figured out how to crack nuke codes and the bombs are flying.
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Will we finally get a new Job announcement at NA fanfest? Will MCH be a fully realized Job? Will WHM lillies have a purpose? Probably no to all 3, but I'm still excited!
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Can't get hacked if you don't use a computer.
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I wouldn't say a PS4 is more powerful than my computer. My computer is above recommended settings. So it must be way more powerful than a PS4. What's more likely is the game is either horribly optimized for PC, or, something about the game doesn't like something in my particular hardware configuration. Porting to PC is tricky business, and SE doesn't exactly have the best track record there.
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FFXV has a whole menagerie of technical problems. The framerate ranges from about 2 to 57. Loading takes a god damn age. I fought a pack of coeurls last night, and they all did the lightning attack thing at the same time. I thought my computer was going to melt. The screen was frozen for like 15 seconds then all of a sudden "Game Over" and it took like 2 minutes to load out of the game over screen. Sometimes it hitches in the middle of attacking, and even though the attack clearly hits the target, it hitched at just the right time that the attack didn't do anything. Also, for whatever reason, whenever it runs, it takes up the entirety of my SSD as virtual memory. And it's not even installed to the C drive. And even then it still takes for fucking ever to load.

Oh, and sometimes I'll be driving down the road, and all of a sudden I'll get a loading screen.
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Been really busy with FFXIV stuff, and now I'm playing FFXV alongside that. So idk when I'll get back to Overwatch lol
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Oh, another thought I had about 5.0 We might be getting Blitzball. That might be one of the big features they talk about. I won't count on it showing up, I just wouldn't be surprised if it's mentioned.
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My keyboard has a scroll lock key.
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I'll be honest, I don't even remember XIII that well. Just when you go down to the planet it stops being a hallway for a while and starts being like a real game.
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Just 1 person got suspended for the sex?
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Welp, hindsight is 20/20
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lol nice.

Anyway, XV, unlocked rank 3 hunts. So, I still haven't gone to meet Glad's sister in Lestallum. So, I'm thinking what I'm going to do is do as much side stuff as I can now, accumulate buttloads of exp, then go rest in the resort and see how far that gets me.
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Got to level 50 in Pyros. So now all I need is to fight Penny a couple times, farm a few hundred more crystals, and then it's an endless light grind again. And that's just for 1 weapon. Nobody knows if the light grind is optional or required though until the next Eureka zone drops.

So the way it works, is once you complete the 385 step weapon, that's only the beginning. The "finished" weapon has 0 substats on it. What you do is fill 2 light crystals, take them to the forge, then you can roll a single line of stats, from 1 to 200. You keep doing that for a while, eventually you get 2 lines, 1 to 200. Then 3. Then 4 and finally 5 lines. And they can be anything. So a BRD can be stupidly lucky, and get 1000 crit on their weapon. Which, btw, it can have up to 1000 stats, which is like 400 more than Suzaku weapons. It's a horribly grindy system, and I hope they don't do this again. But, in some ways, it's actually totally worth grinding it out, since it has way more substats on it than you're going to get in raid weapons. And we have no idea if those stats will carry over to the 4.5 step or not.
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Send nudes
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It's their own damn fault for being stupid and taking a bad deal.
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Ooh nice. I've never played any of the .hack// games, but I did watch a couple of the shows when I was younger.
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o.O People WANT to play Fallout 76?
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FFXV is getting some Miqo'te goodness and a Garuda fight



Presumably whatever FFXIV is getting from the crossover will be announced at fanfest.
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It looks surprisingly not bad.
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Hmm... maybe in the downtime between 4.55b or whatever the final patch is and 5.0 I could check out XI. Just a thought, we'll see how it goes.
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We'll get you what you need, don't worry.

Anyway, finally got back to XV. I'm understanding the battle system, and overall flow and loop of the game better now. The initial few hours and presentation, I'll be honest, were horrendously bad. Just awful. But now, 12 hours later, I'm actually enjoying myself. I wouldn't say it's a great FF, but it's not as bad as I was expecting it to be.

Also I went to a dungeon to slay a Gigantoad for the professor lady, and found a 400 power greatsword just lying on the ground. It's by far the strongest weapon I own right now lol. Well, outside of the zodiac or king weapons or whatever they're called. Also from that little excursion, and the exp from the quest itself, I gained like 5 levels lol.
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Yeah, sorry. People seem to understand the fight now at least.
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Oh yeah, @Entity13 We farmed some Suzaku last night. Auric got the doggo. Edit: And I got my WAR axe :D
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Cheech was Hurley's dad on Lost.
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For a kids movie it actually looks okay.
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Judgmenl posted...

Yea I avoid DPS in MMOs like the plague. Tank or Healer for me.

I played a WHM in 2.0 thought the end game was horrible and never went back for 3.0.

Yeah I'm a DPS main, recently made the jump to Tanking. I'm thinking I'm going to be a Tank main in 5.0 lol. I love DRG, but I'm kinda getting sick of it tbqh.
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