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Elysiums

Banned
Dec 19, 2017
476
What a keynote.

Quick Summary of Info -

Blue Mage Limited Job - Coming patch 4.5
Additional Jobs - Gunblade Class hinted
New Playable Race - Very strongly hinted at Vieras
NPC "Trust" system companions
Battle System Changes - TP and MP combined into single resource
"Free" Destinations World system allowing you to play across your data center
New game plus mode for main story quests/job quests
Nu Mou beast tribe (pixies and dwarf mentioned)
Storyline focuses on Garlean Empire and you becoming the Warrior of Darkness

This should be added in the OP
 

Thorn

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
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Hylander's progression has been something else.
 

Chasing

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
10,683
I just realized from the OP I left out the most important thing.

Ishgard housing at last! Best nation finally gets what it deserves.
 

TwinBahamut

Member
Jun 8, 2018
1,360
I wonder if that
angel looking enemy the Warrior of Darkness is fighting is Zodiark.
I don't think so. That enemy is Kuribu, the boss of Lost City of Amdapor (Hard). The big winged cat statue was an earlier boss from the same dungeon. Both are the only enemies we have fought that originally come from the White Magic civilization of Amdapor. So, basically, the trailer is the WoL becoming a WoD in order to fight destructive White Magic weapons.
 

Shan

Member
Oct 27, 2017
7,953
Man blue mage is going to be a mess to level up at first. I remember the ninja days of 400 people farming fates in every zone lol.
Ah yes, Northern Thanalan was filled to the brim with NIN and people never killing adds during Gorgimera. If you brought a healer during that one you were heralded as a GOD, haha.
 

Sargerus

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The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
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Will they ever add a race that isn't a elf/gnome or human with horns/bunny ears?
 

Saint-14

Banned
Nov 2, 2017
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Becoming WoD is interesting and have been speculated for a long time, we could also see a new calamity in the future.
 

DrBo42

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
3,760
Blue Mage sounds like X-Men's Rogue or Kirby. That's a cool mechanic. Not sure about that being the entirety of the character though, hope it isn't.
 

Firebrand

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,709
Wonder if we'll be flipping back and forth between regular and bizarro Hydaelin / "Lorule".

Love that we're getting a new forest area. The Black Shroud is my favorite place, I feel bad for anyone who decided to start in Thanalan. :P
 

Deleted member 2913

User requested account closure
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Oct 25, 2017
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With me quitting WoW yesterday probably for good and the free campaign for XIV and all the hype I'm getting for this expansion, I think all signs are aligning, it's time for me to come back.
 

Deleted member 3208

Oct 25, 2017
11,934
It looks cool, but man, as much as I want to play this, MMORPGs aren't enjoyable for me anymore.
Tried the last free login campaign (before the current one) and the fact I need to grind in dungeons just to get better gear and continue the story turned me off.
 

Deleted member 4262

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Oct 25, 2017
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That was really good, almost makes me wish it wasn't an MMO. I'd love to see the FFXIV team make a single player game someday.
 

Patazord

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Dec 14, 2017
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I really want to play this again but years ago i stopped at the main story, it bored me to death at level 40.
 

aerie

wonky
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Oct 25, 2017
8,028
Fantastic! Super into this, I didn't play a ton of Stormblood, but i'll happily come back.
 

Eros

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Oct 27, 2017
9,656
Would be stoked if I still played. BLU was one of my favorites in XI even though it wasn't the best at endgame in that game.
 
Jan 11, 2018
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They'll explain more during tomorrow's live letter, but it basically doesn't follow the regular rules. It has its own level cap for example, and something tells me they designed it so it won't ever be able to participate to current content because its abilities are going to be gamebraking.

I took it to mean something more like it will be able to participate in current content, but with a level 50 cap on the skill set (ie you won't be able to learn anything from higher level foes). Being level 50 would mean you can't learn something from a level 67 Primal, unless you're past the level 70 cap, even if you can still fight it and it might have an learnable move that you can learn at some point in the future.
 

elyetis

Member
Oct 26, 2017
4,550
Details from Fanfest Day 1

Blue Mage Limited Job - Coming patch 4.5
Additional Jobs - Gunblade Class hinted
New Playable Race - Very strongly hinted at Vieras
NPC "Trust" system companions
"Free" Destinations World system allowing you to play across your data center
- Nice for the jobs ( even if no dancer or puppetmaster would be freaking disapointing ).
- New race is always good
- Trust could convince my brother to come back to the game if it allow him to play the story without having to deal with dipshit who want to rush it and insult you if you don't
- Last one could allow me to play with a friend who is on a server with too many player/SE didn't allow me to migrate on
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Wait, so blue mage at patch 4.5 isn't so much a conventional job like the rest, but its own special bit of content that won't even be usable in current raids until sometime in the future when they patch in the highest level cap for it? Huh. I'm not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, it certainly keeps the spirit of blue mage without sacrificing it like they did for summoner in this game, but on the other hand it sounds really odd as this weird little 'limited job' that isn't like the rest.