Final Fantasy XIV

I'm mildly expecting the catfish tribe to be the crafting beastman tribe, looking after a mansion sounds reminiscent of the churning mist moogles.

oh right, i forgot the namazu have an established non-hostile base in yanxia

Charibert's worst nightmare.

Sample of some of the bigger job changes

Summoner and Scholar are getting some much needed love.

I can't believe they're actually making Tri-bind powerful.

I can't tell if they're just making Ruin III and Ruin IV permanently Upgrade from Ruin and Ruin II, in the style of Bio IV and Miasma III, or if they're removing Ruin III from the normal ability selection and making Further Ruin turn Ruin into Ruin III and Ruin II into Ruin IV when the pet gets a Crit.

edited 3rd Oct '17 10:17:56 AM by Enlong

the word ruin has now lost all meaning

It has been completely ruined.

-Squint- How can you "miss" Heavy Thrust? Like, rotation doesn't start until that bad boy goes off.

Well its not on the gauge, it doesn't link to any combos and it doesn't add any visual effect to your character so I can see it being easy to miss in the millions of buttons a Dragoon has to press?

Hot Shot was just as annoying for the Machinist, although I think they are adding it to their Job Gauge now.

edited 3rd Oct '17 1:17:42 PM by lycropath

its not part of the gauge, true, but heavy thrust is the first attack of the lvl 50 rotation

like you should always hit that every time you start a new rotation

I think people usually remember it the first time. Its every other time that it gets lost. Dragoon has like two four hit combos, five OGC, their dragon eyes gauge and like four power ups to look after. Its not really a surprise that Heavy Thrust gets lost in the mix up- its so disconnected from the rest of their rotation.

edited 3rd Oct '17 1:40:47 PM by lycropath

back when i mained dragoon i just put my main rotation on my 1-0 keys (with heavy thrust on 1) and i just clicked all my off-globals

So veteran rewards got retooled. All the outfits can be obtained much sooner and the other rewards can be bought with achievement points. Naturally, people are throwing salt over how "their hard work" was devalued and that the items are no longer special.

Ah, yes, the hard work of buying subscription time is being devalued by the trivial task of actually doing things.

People did the same thing when the Ixion mount was easier to obtain "Oh well everyone can get one now, so mine is no longer special."

Honestly, no one gives a shit about the exclusive items and rewards.

Ok. I've heard a convincing theory about how Ruin will now work for Summoners.

• Ruin Mastery will change into a trait that just replaces Ruin with Ruin III at the appropriate level. Presumably its MP cost will reduce to

• Ruin II sticks around, but there will be a new trait that replaces it with Ruin IV (which is now instant-cast) when the pet gets a crit.
• in Trance, Ruin III becomes instant cast.

All of this means that Ruin IV is now something you look out for and replace your normal spell with when it's ready. Also, you'll be able to now move freely in Trance, or get up close and whack the enemy with your book for more damage.

That sounds correct to me, and I'd like it.

Yeah, DRG has 60 bajillionty buttons to hit in the course of their rotation....but Heavy Thrust is the first. Like, it's hard to miss that orange pencil lead in your buffs bar. If it ain't there, you're wrong.

I do have difficulty maintaining Heavy Thrust when I DRG... however, this is more because I'm bad at rotations. There's a reason WHM is my main.

I've been using Ninja for my melee DPS needs.

edited 4th Oct '17 7:14:07 PM by lycropath

GLAMOUR PRISMS CAN NOW BE BOUGHT WITH GC SEALS

edited 10th Oct '17 12:19:37 AM by MetaflarePrime

As a glamour addict, this is fantastic news.

I do kinda feel sorry for the crafters who made a lot of their money by selling prisms on the MB, though.

there will always be a market for prisims not everyone goes for seals

I find it hilarious that just when I've finally retrained my eyes to not look for my Aetherflow icon on the buff bar, they bring it back there.

So the Ivalice raid is pretty tricky to learn with all these mechanics and all. The music is ripped right out of FFT, even the victory theme *squee*

Ba'gamnan and his crew appear at the very end, making me wonder if he, the seeq, the viera, and the nu mou can all appear later on and if they are a part of the world or were summoned/created

It's a little disappointing. All the music is ripped straight from Tactics without change.

edited 10th Oct '17 5:23:11 PM by Hashil