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Final Fantasy XIV |OT2| ARR: Phase 4 August.

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Baleoce

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Does anyone know if Akihiko Yoshida has any publications? I really like his art style and would like to see more concept stuff from him.
 

Jinko

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Haha black mage skills look awful, took what should have been the most impressive and made it mundane.

Oh well the rest looked pretty good.

Whitemage/CNJ spells looked better than Black Mage ones >.>
 

Teknoman

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Guess i'll be adopting Monk as my third career job for now. Paladin stuff looks cool, but they better not have sword and axe effects still sounding like blunt weapons on impact.
 
Yeah, it just seems like such an illogical answer in a game that purposely allows you to level whatever class you want on a single character.

You can level all characters, but is every unlikely that you will get top notch gear for every one of them. Most people will have a main job, the one you will use end content.

Player skill should be the only requeriment to tackle content, not "you're not X job then you're fucked".

Edit: Also is there yet an upload of the whole stream?

Edit 2: June 14? FUUUUUUU!! that's not first 10 days on June!!!
 

Jinko

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I think aoe floor targeting is confirmed during the letter.

Yea I did hear him mention skill targeting, good news :D

Curious how people playing on gamepads will use this though.

I agree with this sentence as a general rule but.. no elemental resistances whatsoever just seems.. wrong.

I actually prefer it, I would rather have full use of all my spells and not be locked into using just one type of magic when it comes to primals etc, do we really want Conjurers/whm being favoured over Thumaturge/blm ?

14th of June can't come soon enough, really looking forward to phas3 .
 
I agree with this sentence as a general rule but.. no elemental resistances whatsoever just seems.. wrong.

It may be wrong in the standard RPG formula but I really think is the right direction in the MMO genre.

IMO if bosses manages to be as good as Darnus in 1.0, a fight that could be tackled by every class/job with very little discrimination then elemental weaknesses will be a thing of the past.

Maybe L3 or R3 can be AoE targeting?

Common sense will be that once you start an aoe spell, you control the target with the right stick. At least I wish it is like that.
 

Baleoce

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I actually prefer it, I would rather have full use of all my spells and not be locked into using just one type of magic when it comes to primals etc, do we really want Conjurers/whm being favoured over Thumaturge/blm ?

It's a difficult one. In XI there was so many events where a particular job was favoured for whatever tactical purpose. And it was to an unhealthy degree imo. I agree, that you should be able to do any event on any job. But at the expense of weaknesses? Would this also imply that there's no physical differences in damage types (blunt, slashing, piercing)?

I guess old habits die hard xD I just hope if they do completely get rid of these mechanics, that they are able to replace them with something that makes the player feel like there is a deep tactical level of battle gameplay still available to them.
 

Teknoman

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Well from what I remember, each spell had a debuff or buff associated with it, so while Aero doesnt do any extra damage due to being wind, it might have some sort of debuff associated with it...like slow or something.
 

suzu

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It may be wrong in the standard RPG formula but I really think is the right direction in the MMO genre.

IMO if bosses manages to be as good as Darnus in 1.0, a fight that could be tackled by every class/job with very little discrimination then elemental weaknesses will be a thing of the past.

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The new hair styles they showed looks great. I hope the eye marks on the male Miqote aren't permanent anymore. I keep seeing them everywhere in promo shots which leads me to believe that this still can't be changed.
 

Cetra

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I missed all but about the last 25ish minutes. Is there a web site somewhere that has screencaps of the hairstyles etc?
 

N.A

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I missed all but about the last 25ish minutes. Is there a web site somewhere that has screencaps of the hairstyles etc?

Stolen from the beta forums:

New hairstyles.

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Swimsuits!

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Chocobo fighting. Peck attack?

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We also got shown the largest housing size available. So HUGE! Also, Goobbue rug? D:

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Yoshi and Foxclone also showed us some *Physical* CE items, the new Courel mount, and some new artwork.

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Pictures of the Nico Nico event in Japan a couple weeks back.

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Cetra

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Thanks Buttons and N.A. New hairstyles look awesome. Housing looks... WAY cooler than I'd imagined. Chocobo stuff makes me giddy. Open beta can't get here soon enough. I wanna get to work on my character like... yesterday.
 

creid

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Hm, Phase 3 starting on June 14 puts it at one day after the English Live Letter they're doing at E3 (and also the day after E3.)
 

Allard

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Thanks Buttons and N.A. New hairstyles look awesome. Housing looks... WAY cooler than I'd imagined. Chocobo stuff makes me giddy. Open beta can't get here soon enough. I wanna get to work on my character like... yesterday.

I look forward to housing but the one thing that is bothering me that I hope isn't permanent is how... dark, cave like the housing areas were in the live letter. I was hoping with an instanced housing zone we might at least be able to get housing with windows that allow you to look out at your neighborhood and utilize that impressive real time lighting engine they got to see day turn to dusk etc.
 

Cetra

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That would be cool, but I've no doubt they'll be adding crap loads of furnishings for the houses. That'd be a pretty brilliant and addicting gil sink. Hopefully they have plenty of lamps, candles, and chandeliers. :D
 

Munba

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With those huge spaces in the house, i want to put in it everthing possibile lol. I imagine every sort of stuff (also big pictures on the wall).
 

Allard

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I'll be leveling up carpentry and botany, so I can make my own furniture.

Thankfully I already did that in preparation for the off delayed personal ships from 1.0 >.>. Think they are still planning to add those eventually but judging by some of his comments over the development cycle that is likely to be expansion content and may not even be the first one.
 

Munba

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Thankfully I already did that in preparation for the off delayed personal ships from 1.0 >.>. Think they are still planning to add those eventually but judging by some of his comments over the development cycle that is likely to be expansion content and may not even be the first one.

I want that SO much.. to explore the ocean and find lost islands. ;_;

Carpenter here for that too lol.
 
God damn at that collector's edition box.

God damn square, why do you have to do that shit though digital river? Why couldn't it be up on amazon like the ps3 version?
 
dat massive house. dat Gobbue rug. Instantly regretting my decision to abandon my other character. I'll probably keep him and his gil on another server just in case...

Did they ever mention if you would be able to buy/sell houses on the market, brokered by other players?
 

N.A

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dat massive house. dat Gobbue rug. Instantly regretting my decision to abandon my other character. I'll probably keep him and his gil on another server just in case...

Did they ever mention if you would be able to buy/sell houses on the market, brokered by other players?

I believe Yoshi said in a previous live letter houses would be able to be sold.
 
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