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The full FFXIV Stormblood trailler
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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Peroroncino
Member
Yeah good question, because it looks 3 times bigger now, I can't believe it's gonna be in 1 expansion lol.
AuthenticM
Member
eh, doesn't sound eastern enough. I was hoping for those instruments (I don't know the names) you hear at the end of the first Stormblood trailer released last year. You heard them in the remix of the Final Fantasy theme song.
Stone Ocean
Member
It's not an excuse, but acting like tanks and healers are getting nothing new to play with is disingenuous
LordOfLore
Banned
Totally going to space or another world for 6.0.
Baleoce
Member
That's what I was thinking. Even for just over the course of this expansion it looks somewhat ambitious. Would be cool though.
Baleoce
Member
Rise of the Zilart
UtterlyPerplexed
Member
Ilsabard and the Garlean Empire look certain to be for 5.0 at this point.
Who knows what will happen after that though. Meracydia to the south? A supposed "New World" to the west that they can pull a Seekers of Adoulin redux with?
Who knows what will happen after that though. Meracydia to the south? A supposed "New World" to the west that they can pull a Seekers of Adoulin redux with?
Size isn't always a good thing - Hw zones were super inflated with mostly empty space. Also keep in mind the world map isn't 1-1, every area is an instanced cell. This isn't a seamless gameworld.
LordOfLore
Banned
Stone Ocean
Member
We can always go to the moon to fuck Zodiark up
One thing I really regret about nu-XIV is how fixed the roles are. Give me back seigan/hasso stance dance off-tanking plz.
KeyBladerXIII
Member
Trying to make out the new names on the map is giving me a headache. Their alphabet is annoying.
I agree - they even did a credits reel for a quest chain in 3.5 in this alphabet, meaning we couldn't make out half of what it said. Kind of a waste.
Baleoce
Member
I knew some absolute beastly SAM tanks in XI. I agree with you, roles could be somewhat malleable in a game like that, and it was refreshing.
Looks really neat. Fell off before even finishing the story for ARR a couple years since it just took forever to get anyone so I could do dungeons to progress, though I was playing as a Dragoon so I suppose it was my fault. Keep meaning to try jumping back in and I took advantage of that super cheap deal on Amazon a while back that included HW.
Stone Ocean
Member
SAM DPS means it'll likely be the most popular job in the game bar none unless it's extremely hard to play.
It's hard to live up to Heavensward's trailer.
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Samurai & Red Mage
Depths of Orion
Member
Pretty disappointed there won't be a new tank class. Hopefully the new tank changes will be enough to keep me playing one. So that makes it 3 Tank, 3 Healer, and 9 DPS?
Yeah. God I really hope PLD & WHM get better..
Depths of Orion
Member
Me too. It's the only reason why PLD is my only non 60 tank class. Such a boring class overall.
EvilKatarn
Member
What's all this I hear about skills being reworked.
Should I even bother learning endgame dragoon rotations before Stormblood hits then?
Should I even bother learning endgame dragoon rotations before Stormblood hits then?
Cant be called whitewashing when it's a fully Japanese studio of people deciding how to portray there own culture
Depends on how you intend to spend the next 4 months playing I guess. I don't expect rotations to become dramatically different either. Their goal is to reduce the massive DPS loss for messing up your rotation (along with pruning skills to make room for the new ones and reworking currently useless skills) but they've always said that difficulty would be similar to what we have now.
Stone Ocean
Member
They're going to take old useless skills and make them useful while also getting rid of superfluous shit. We don't know the extent of that and what new skills will be added so no reason to hold off from learning current stuff.
demosthenes
Member
Wow they are trying hard to pull me back in.
EvilKatarn
Member
Persona 5 and Nier!
Hoh, I like the sound of that. As a gamepad player I'd love for some skills to be consolidated into others.
Trailer felt a little weak compared to the really strong one they put out for Heavensward, but I guess a lot of that was the music. Seems pretty inevitable that I'll wind up coming back for this. The Samurai class is not really selling its niche so far, so I guess I'm way more interested in Red Mage.
Goodbye Stone II and III, hello Stone +3!
I want to see cross class skills removed or turned into modifiers for your actual class skills. It would cut down on skill bloat and remove a lot of "bad choices" like dragoons using Fracture and underwhelming but mandatory skills.
Like, if they could take away Internal Release and instead have it buff your True Thrust critical rate by a flat 10%, that'd be worth getting the skill (trait) for, save a button, and let them use that space for another DRG skill.
Or turning Mercy Stroke into a trait that makes any jumps that kill a target to return a flat health percentage.
If they wanted to introduce choice, let players pick which perks to choose based on the content.
There are a lot of pretty straightforward ways the combat can be improved.
Like, if they could take away Internal Release and instead have it buff your True Thrust critical rate by a flat 10%, that'd be worth getting the skill (trait) for, save a button, and let them use that space for another DRG skill.
Or turning Mercy Stroke into a trait that makes any jumps that kill a target to return a flat health percentage.
If they wanted to introduce choice, let players pick which perks to choose based on the content.
There are a lot of pretty straightforward ways the combat can be improved.
I already mentioned it in the Community thread but they need to reduce the amount of cooldowns that essentially boil down to "do X%+ DPS for Y seconds" that we're already stacking. Stuff like Hawk's Eye is bound to be removed, especially if they end up removing accuracy as a secondary stat (please remove accuracy). Same for Rouse and Spur, one of these has to be consolidated into the other. Ideally, you'd have fewer, slightly more impactful cooldowns.
Zomba13
Member
I bet it's also disappointing as a DPS main as now your already terrible queue times will get even worst as everyone rushes to try out weaboo and m'lady.
A fine trailer but doesn't hold a candle to the Heavensward one. I'm glad we're leaving Adelard finally though. I can't say I'm super stoked about an eastern themed expansion but we're definitely in for some gorgous art design so I'm sure I'll be into it when the time comes.
It's a bummer about no new tank but then they can't keep adding three classes each expansion. Also, if tank and healer players didn't move over to DRK and AST maybe that says something more about the classes and less about the players.
It's a bummer about no new tank but then they can't keep adding three classes each expansion. Also, if tank and healer players didn't move over to DRK and AST maybe that says something more about the classes and less about the players.
I do hope Yugiri plays a big part in this. I've felt they had a bit of build up for her and then she just sat there doing nothing. I've yet to play the last couple of patches so maybe she has played a part in them.
This brings up something I wish they'd take from WoW, class specs. When I'm playing that game I can still play a PLD whether I want to tank, heal, or dps. That combined with XIV's job system would offer a freedom I'm not sure another MMO has.
This brings up something I wish they'd take from WoW, class specs. When I'm playing that game I can still play a PLD whether I want to tank, heal, or dps. That combined with XIV's job system would offer a freedom I'm not sure another MMO has.