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Oh, so some more predictions/wish list items for 5.0

Removal of base classes. If there is a big system rework on the horizon, I can see the removal of classes happening, then when you start a new character you'll just go straight to Job. Now, how they'd actually incorporate this, I have no idea. Are they going to remove a bunch of low level quests? Are they going to rebalance a bunch of low level quests? Are you going to start at level 30? Who knows. But this is something they have talked about doing in the past. In addition to this, they NEED to do something about the 2.x story. It takes forever, and if you really want to play AST or DRK, or for some ungodly reason MCH you need to do ALL of it. Hopefully new 5.0 Jobs you just unlock at 50 like the SB Jobs.

Something I would love to see them do, but I doubt it's going to happen. I know Yoshi-P has praised Diablo III's Torment system before. If they could somehow implement a scaling difficulty system for dungeons and raids, that would be fantastic, and breath some much needed new life into some very old content. I don't know what the rewards in such a system would be. Hopefully they DON'T move towards more random stat Pink gear, but with the Eureka Pyros weapons being so RNG heavy... I wouldn't put it past them.
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Oh, and the slow GCD. Eh, I'm fine with it. I do admit that at low levels it can be painfully slow. But once you have a complete 50/60/70 kit, it's fine. Especially classes like DRG, or DRK, where you're weaving in oGCDs between every single GCD, it feels perfectly fine.
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Nah, it's still pretty rigidly Tank/DPS/Healer.

But I do share your concerns. I think BLU would be a cool tank concept, but everything we know about it (Or, ClassJob36 as it's known in the data files) suggest it's a caster DPS. And Dancer as a healer... I don't have the foggiest how that would work. Every healer in the game uses either hots or shields. I would love more variety, but it's possible XIV's code base doesn't allow for more variety. It was forked from XI's source code iirc, so they're basically hot gluing new things onto some very old code.

But there were some pretty big developments in the 4.4 story, that heavily imply a new calamity is coming VERY soon. So if that happens in 5.x, that would be the perfect opportunity to rework/revamp old systems.
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I'll get back to FFXV today. Been busy with FFXIV stuff.

BTW, NA fanfest is in 4 days. The next XIV expansion will be announced. I'm guessing we'll get:
A 30 second teaser trailer
The title (Shadowbringers?)
The setting (Ilsabard? More specifically, Thavnair? Garlemald? We'll see! There have also been hints in the recent MSQ of Dalmasca so we might be getting some more of Othard. Which I'm okay with because I really like the Othard zones.)
New level cap is 80
Skill pruning + new skills
New 8-man raids (Personally, I think Jenova, or Seymour/Yu Yevon would be great raid villains, and they would both lend their games to a lot of good fights. Maybe we'll get confirmation of the next raid villain in 4.5)
New 24-man raids (I always thought Kefka's Tower would be a 24-man raid... but he's a boss in Stormblood's 8-man raids, so who knows what this will be.)
New Ultimate raids. (I think Kefka and the Warring Triad would make a perfect Ultimate raid)
Minor system changes/announcements. I'm guessing either a rework/expansion of the Role Action system, or it will be removed entirely. Please no Eureka 2 announcement.
Hints at new Job(s) (Blue Mage? Dancer? Gunblader? Something crazy like Arithmetician?)
Hints at new playable race (Viera yes please)

There were a series of leaks several months ago about 4.3 and 4.4, and pretty much everything they leaked turned out to be true. With the exception of getting Blue Mage mid-expac. So it's *possible* since dataminers have actually found Blue Mage and Blue Magic actions in the data files, we might be getting it in 4.5, or it could even be a pre-order bonus for 5.0. We'll see.
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lol what. Is that thing a joke?
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Sure, why not? She wouldn't win.
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The horse's name was Friday
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'90. Maybe? idk. Don't really care if I am or not.
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Zacek posted...

Maybe you can do a Twitch...

I'm not that charismatic, and the game already runs like ass, can't imagine what it would be like while recording it.
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Little FFXIV update, just finished the first step of my first Pyros weapon.
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I don't even know what reset era is.
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It's funny cus he had an iron rod in his brain.
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Yeah Cid keeps telling me to go get stuff to upgrade my weapons but doesn't tell me where to get it. :P

Also, Prompto is presumably a 19 or 20-year-old, but he acts like a 13-year-old anime girl. >_>
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Yesterday I found a penny from 1917
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Currently in chapter 3. About level 21 or 22 or so I believe. I don't really feel like I'm getting stronger? idk. I'm also trying to complete every hunt and sidequest I can. Probably overkill, but we'll see how far that gets me.
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...? So republicans don't want to count all the votes, and dems do, and that's "stealing the election"?
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I can make weapons stronger by punching holes in them and jamming different colored rocks in there
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England is my city
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helIy posted...

the battle system is like, the one thing 15 is actually good at.

and fishing, for some reason.

Yeah I played around with the fishing a little bit, and actually found myself enjoying it.

ComradeSeraphim posted...

papercup posted...

I might play XI one day

Just so you know, although it's an MMO, FFXI has added new features that make it possible to play most of the content completely solo now.

(Square-Enix was kind of forced to add such features due to the dwindling player-base.)

Ooh, interesting. I'll have to look into that.

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papercup posted...

So got to the pier, had to go find some rocks for a guy to get on the boat. Found out some shit happened back home, and drove back and right when the car got to its destination the game crashed.

Did you watch Kingsglave, the prequel movie for FFXV? If not, you probably should. You kind of need to watch it in order to understand the story. The movie basically goes into explicit detail about what all that "shit that happened back home" was all about.

I've heard this. I've also heard it's really bad XD I'll still check it out if it's that vital.

Entity13 posted...

Meanwhile, I just got my platinum trophy for Wild Arms 3. That's one less game to work on or worry about. xD

I beat Arkham Knight a few days ago and got the true ending. I was right, the Knight was Jason Todd lol. Also, I'm fairly certain Bruce Wayne wouldn't kill Alfred and himself, so I'm guessing "Nightmare Batman" is just Bruce under a different identity. And there's a lot of hints that this is true, like his final interactions with Catwoman, Nightwing, and even some of the villains. It really doesn't make sense for any of the Robins to take up the mantle, and Terry McGinnis 1) wasn't born yet probably and 2) was never mentioned once in the series, so NB is probably not Batman Beyond.
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That's it! I've come up with a new recipe!
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Meteos is fantastic.
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DPsx7 posted...

No arguments there. Not that I was able to play it since they locked it until you got to a certain rank. What was it, 30 or something? That took months.

wat. did you play like a match a day? It takes no time at all.
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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Zangulus posted...

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

i thought you needed an actual amount of money to sell (usually a dollar is used).

if it was $0 then that isn't a sale, it's a gift

It was sold for stock in a company that never went public.

So? That doesnt mean the stock has no value.

yes it does

wat. Just because it's not openly traded on a market, doesn't mean it doesn't have value. It just makes determining the value more difficult.
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I mean, he's probably smarter than he lets on. But he's by no means a good person.
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Nah, I just pre-ordered the game.
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People didn't tell you to not play. They told you if you think XV is a good game you probably wouldn't enjoy V. Everyone agrees V is a fantastic game.
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So got to the pier, had to go find some rocks for a guy to get on the boat. Found out some shit happened back home, and drove back and right when the car got to its destination the game crashed.
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I just can't wait to get on the road again

That's right, it's been long enough since I've done one of these, it's past due. If you don't know/remember what this is, a few years ago I set out on the task of playing every numbered Final Fantasy, in order. When I started this little project, FFXIV A Realm Reborn was out, and the Heavensward expansion and FFXV weren't released yet. Over the course of a year, I played every Final Fantasy, from I to XIII-2. I didn't play XI or XIII-3. I might play XI one day, XIII and especially XIII-2 were so bad I didn't bother with 3. Don't really want to, anyway. This time I'm playing Final Fantasy XV: Road Trip Simulator 2016.

Before we get into that, I've played FFXIV every day for a couple of years now, but I don't make topics about it, because nobody would care. I can say that I have played Dragoon way more than I care to admit, and I have cleared many many raids, and I have every single Job and gathering/crafting class max leveled. Recently got into tanking, and I quite enjoy it. I don't really like Paladin, it's a bit too simple for my tastes, but Dark Knight and Warrior are tons of fun.

Anyway, FFXV! Where to begin. I started out with the tutorial, and found the game unresponsive. I started over and tried the lore tutorial, went up to a painting... and nothing happened after the first text box, and I couldn't exit. Off to a great start already! So I killed the process and relaunched the game, and now it works fine. So how is it? I heard it was unfinished, and it feels like it. The map feels empty and needlessly large. NPCs are very rough looking. The art design is a bit uninspired. Music is ehhhh. There were like 4 cutscenes that seemed to have nothing to do with each other, it feels like it takes 30 minutes to get going then you start hitting dogs with sticks. Combat is... weird. You just hold a button to attack, and when a prompt comes up you hold a different button to defend. But sometimes it doesn't defend. Sometimes there's no prompt. Sometimes you can tell one of the backstreet boys to shoot a gun or something and you might be able to follow it up with another attack. Idk maybe there's more to it later.

Maybe it's just off to a rocky start, maybe like XIII when the game really gets going it's not so bad. I'll give it a fair shot.

And, no, I DON'T hate Final Fantasy. I love Final Fantasy. pretty much every game before 10, excluding 2 and 8 are masterpieces, and some of the most influential and important games ever made. It's just, barring XIV, recent FF games have been bloated messes that stray too far from what makes FF amazing.
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Hit a few rabbits and birds in my time.
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It kinda seems that the FFXIV team are the only ones at Square that care about FF... and yet Stormblood has had some serious issues. Some of them were short-lived and corrected, like greed-only rolling in 24-man raids. No idea what the fuck they were thinking there. And don't even get me started on the trainwreck that is Eureka.
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It's kind of amazing Square is still in business. How do they keep fucking up this badly.
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Bruce Wayne is a billionaire.
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Mead posted...

to think that voters continue to reward the zodiac killer

You do realize the zodiac killings happened before he was born, don't you?
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He didn't have to do it, but he did it anyway.
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Orange man is having a bad week. :(
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What. 8 was godawful. When I did my full series playthrough a few years back it was the only one I didn't finish.
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Play FFV if you want to see what a real FF game is like.
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In Final Fantasy XIV, the best chances I have of clearing content is to join learning parties. Farm parties can't clear shit.
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Never change, PotD. Never change. :)
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dancer62 posted...

I'm pretty disgusted with both major political parties, but this election was sort of fun

The Demdum incumbent Senator here had volunteers doing massive amounts of spam phone calls and texts as well as an incessant advertising blitz on TV, managed to annoy enough people to get defeated. At least in this instance, justice was served and arrogance doesn't pay!

It will be interesting to see how the yellow press excuses their predictions of a Dem landslide.

Something kind of like that happened here. Galeotos ran hundreds of obnoxious ads where people mispronounce his name for shits and giggles, declaring "Finally, a conservative businessman for Wyoming!" and got his ass handed to him in the primary.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

papercup posted...

Mead posted...

It really is silly how many people are quick to say that their vote doesnt matter. Its like they think theres no point to the entire process if their vote isnt the deciding factor.

I live in one of the reddest states. My vote DOESN'T matter.

Yes it does. Local elections and ballot measures get decided by vote margins of <1,000.

Y'all I get being disillusioned and frustrated about our systems, but saying "fuck the system" while not taking a basic step to change parts of the system is defeatist.

I didn't say I didn't vote, I did. I'm just saying I have no illusions about the power of my vote.
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Mead posted...

It really is silly how many people are quick to say that their vote doesnt matter. Its like they think theres no point to the entire process if their vote isnt the deciding factor.

I live in one of the reddest states. My vote DOESN'T matter.
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Actually, yeah, I see republicans gaining strength tonight a real possibility. I HOPE it doesn't happen, but I can still see it happen quite easily.
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Still never played FFXI. >_>
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I live in one of the reddest states in the country. Doesn't matter if I vote or not.
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Trump 2024 ya boi
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Apparently it actually isn't Undertale 2. Though when it first came out I heard it was.
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Wait, McCree? People have been shipping McCree and Pharah forever.
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Blighboy posted...

Was watching her trailer again and realized it was Jennifer Hale doing the voice

I love her in Metroid Prime because she just grunts and screams the entire time.
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I think I might be too old for this shit.
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