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[Mawile]

Yeah, basically healers and tanks will put up with whatever so no point making new things for them to play.

Won't this screw up the Duty Finder for a while?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

They're adding a new tank in 4.0 called Paladin, please be excited.

The lack of traditional sword-and-board tanking was always a glaring omission in FFXIV

 

[suzu]

Needs more Gil Toss for authenticity.

 

[Stone Ocean]

You guys are vastly overestimating how many people would play a new tank or a new healer

 

[Trojita]

With these new changes we are also making Warrior a DPS. It only makes sense that an axe user would be a dps.

 

[ebil]

Yeah, basically healers and tanks will put up with whatever so no point making new things for them to play.

No new healer or tank, going to focus on balancing the ones we currently have.

In other news, balance is hard. Current balance is the reason why I didn't see them adding a new healer but they went with not adding a new tank either on top of it. Paladin better be getting one hell of an overhaul.

 

[Mawile]

You guys are vastly overestimating how many people would play a new tank or a new healer

A lot of people hopped on DRK cause it was cool, if they made another cool tank I don't see how that wouldn't help.

 

[UtterlyPerplexed]

Won't this screw up the Duty Finder for a while?

Yup, but at the same time PotD is an option if queues are unbearable, so there's that.

But if you're hoping to main a DPS at launch like most people rather than just wanting to casually level up one of the new jobs, yeeeeeeeah....

 

[Dresden]

Finally the only thing that matters, Matsunoland

 

[Eldren]

No, RIP.

He said that their data supports the fact that healer people will keep playing healers and tank people will keep playing tanks. Too bad I'm one of the many DPS people currently maining a healer but returning to DPS for 4.0.

No new healer or tank, going to focus on balancing the ones we currently have.

honestly I did not play with that many DRK/AST when leveling my AST and MCH up in heavensward. Though MCH queues did suck, but you just fated it up. They will probably buff xp for fates and dungeons in HW areas and PoTD will get you 50-60 pretty quickly.
Not hard to theory a decent/quick rotation for 50-60 and then 70

I feel like this is a mistake. Hopefully the revamped tank and healer combat system will alleviate some of the problems but I'm not too hopeful.

 

[Omnicent]

Won't this screw up the Duty Finder for a while?

going 50-60 would, but you can PoTD that. 60-70 will be about as bad for dps queues as it was for HW (depends on how many tank/heals go to play SAM/RDM. If most run through MSQ first then you are going to want to run your dps through asap probably)

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

Guys, I'm pretty pissed off it isn't a tank but whatever... more boring dps classes I guess. Hopefully it is more like mnk.... than say drg.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

I feel like this is a mistake. Hopefully the revamped tank and healer combat system will alleviate some of the problems but I'm not too hopeful.

Revamped healer and tank combat means some potency and cd changes.

Don't expect anything drastically different from what we have now.

 

[Killthee]

Looks big!

 

[Unknown Soldier]

In other news, balance is hard. Current balance is the reason why I didn't see them adding a new healer but they went with not adding a new tank either on top of it. Paladin better be getting one hell of an overhaul.

PLD will also become a DPS, same as WAR. The Trinity is being entirely removed, we Guild Wars 2 now

 

[Lanrutcon]

Samurai dps! yay!

Finally. A dps class with a goddamn sword.

 

[Mawile]

Looks big!

Gat dayum! That's so sick.

 

[Apoptomon]

Hingashi = Japan?

 

[Omnicent]

Samurai dps! yay!

Finally. A dps class with a goddamn sword.

RDM?

 

[ebil]

Revamped healer and tank combat means some potency and cd changes.

Don't expect anything drastically different from what we have now.

I don't know. Healer gameplay at the very least is currently (too much, IMO) heavily tipped towards offense. I personally would probably want to go back to healing if it included more actual healing.

 

[Stuart444]

With cross server pf, it might be easier for DPS than expected since they can make a pf and get a tank/healer that way which may be quicker than DF queues.

 

[Lanrutcon]

RDM?

Ha! toothpicks.

Speaking of which: are RDMs gonna be ranged?

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

I love Warrior so much.... I'm not sure what they can do to make it different at level 70 though.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I love Warrior so much.... I'm not sure what they can do to make it different at level 70 though.

Now instead of hitting things with a big axe, you'll hit things HARDER

 

[Alfebit]

Samurai and Monk sharing armor is huge for me, as a Monk main. I'll definitely level it now.

Was this confirmed? If so I'll probably be leveling Samurai before Red Mage since I'm a Monk main.

 

[Trojita]

Looks big!

The PS3 version had to die for this.

Let's pour one out for it.

 

[Killthee]

Ha! toothpicks.

Speaking of which: are RDMs gonna be ranged?

They have a ranged stance and melee stance I believe.

 

[Stuart444]

I love Warrior so much.... I'm not sure what they can do to make it different at level 70 though.

I don't know how they can beat Fell Cleave personally lol

 

[Lanrutcon]

They have a ranged stance and melee stance I believe.

Sounds like hell to balance :/ let's see how it turns out.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

I don't know how they can beat Fell Cleave personally lol

Seriously. The high of hitting double 14k crits back to back is going to be tough to beat.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

15 minutes left. Don't think we're getting any info on the battle changes.

 

[Omnicent]

susano primal... looking good

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

Sounds like hell to balance :/ let's see how it turns out.

Balance how? From the brief video at fanfest, it looked like melee/range chain into each other depending on the combo. So it's not like you would change stances or move.

Hopefully we see more today

 

[Stone Ocean]

I don't know how they can beat Fell Cleave personally lol

By nerfing the shit out of it until whatever is new looks cooler

 

[Thorgal]

[we have ninja turtles as a beast tribe

 

[ebil]

Arrapago Reef, XIV edition

 

[Mawile]

The PS3 version had to die for this.

Let's pour one out for it.

lol true. So glad they aren't repeating FFXI's mistakes. No more "limitations".

 

[the_sun_king]

Definite Mongolian influence in the Azim Steppe.

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

Still hoping for more customization to be confirmed.

 

[Robin64]

[we have ninja turtles as a beast tribe

Oh god, the localisation team are not going to hold back on this one, are they? I've groaned at a lot of the puns in quest and achievement names so far, but this is going to be their coup de grâce.

 

[Mawile]

Oh god, the localisation team are not going to hold back on this one, are they? I've groaned at a lot of the puns in quest and achievement names so far, but this is going to be their coup de grâce.

Welcome to Final Fantasy!

 

[scy]

Why is there a giant ramen bowl in Azim Steppe.

Edit: Well, there's the new housing area.

 

[Omnicent]

time to save up my gil. Glade i didnt buy a house yet

 

[Killthee]

 

[suzu]

Why is there a giant ramen bowl in Azim Steppe.

We'll finally be getting that FFXV x FFXIV x Cup Noodle promotion.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

time to save up my gil. Glade i didnt buy a house yet

Keep saving it. I own one and have to be reminded I do when I get the tear down notice because I never go in it.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

Still hoping for more customization to be confirmed.

Don't get your hopes up.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

How in the hell have they never added a damn apartment building in ishgard. Like, the whole damn structure is one big tower. It doesn't need a ward. Crazy to me they went all through 3.0 teasing us.

 

[ebil]

So far, other than the setting there's been zero surprising annoucement out of this keynote.

 

[Oswen]

So, is this turning into basically the Doma expansion with just a little bit of Ala Mhigo?
It feels like they changed direction at some point for some reasons.

Not complaining though, looks great.