BlueGartr translated the interview.
Among other items:
What the heck is a Zodiac Weapon?
Yoshida:Â To describe it simply, it's an upgraded Relic weapon. However, the system to upgrade it will take a considerable amount of time.
Even though it will be time-consuming, is this the kind of thing that you plan for everyone to be able to possess if they work at it?
Yoshida:Â Well, there won't be anything stopping you from doing it.... That said, the strengthening will happen in steps and it won't end with patch 2.2. This will continue with 2.2, 2.25, and 2.3. It's planned in a way that not many people will have finished the elements from the 2.2 patch by the time 2.25 is available. We also have plans to keep the weapons viable even in their final form.
Right now, the highest level weapons can only be obtained by completing the Binding Coil of Bahamut, with another type that was obtained by accumulating tokens. This will be a third type of weapon that gets developed over a long period of time.
I feel like items that correspond to Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy will basically be a waste after this patch. How are you dealing with that?
Yoshida:Â After the patch, you won't obtain Philosophy anywhere - it will be replaced with Mythology. There will be a NPC available which allows you to exchange currency at a predetermined rate.
What will happen to Darklight equipment which you were able to obtain for Philosophy?
Yoshida:Â It will be changed to a normal dungeon drop. It will drop in the dungeons which are added to the high level roulette. Instanced dungeons will have equipment at level 70, Crystal Tower will be level 80, and Turns 1-5 of Bahamut Coil as well as mythology gear will be level 90. The increase in item level should lead to growth on the main job. When we raise the level cap with an expansion and add additional dungeons and field area, that will lead to overall character growth.
Increasing the item level is just one direction, though, we also need to increase the breadth of items available at each level, which we plan to address in the future.
About how much content do you have in mind?
Yoshida:Â We have about two years' worth of content planned. We've actually been working on the design for 3.0 for a long time now. We've already come up with dungeon names and the number of dungeons, as well as the theme and the name of the new top tier dungeon which will be like the next rendition of the Binding Coil of Bahamut. We've also come up with the look of the city area, as well as the number and theme of the field areas to be added.
However, if we look closer on the development schedule, things are more up in the air. For example, we haven't yet finalized the content for patch 2.3 because 2.3 is still in development and we want to have some level of improvisation available to us so that we can add things based on requests.
So you're already hard at work on content planned for a few years out.
Yoshida:Â Yes, we'll continue to working hard on it until we get told to cut back on our development costs.
Among other items:
What the heck is a Zodiac Weapon?
Yoshida:Â To describe it simply, it's an upgraded Relic weapon. However, the system to upgrade it will take a considerable amount of time.
Even though it will be time-consuming, is this the kind of thing that you plan for everyone to be able to possess if they work at it?
Yoshida:Â Well, there won't be anything stopping you from doing it.... That said, the strengthening will happen in steps and it won't end with patch 2.2. This will continue with 2.2, 2.25, and 2.3. It's planned in a way that not many people will have finished the elements from the 2.2 patch by the time 2.25 is available. We also have plans to keep the weapons viable even in their final form.
Right now, the highest level weapons can only be obtained by completing the Binding Coil of Bahamut, with another type that was obtained by accumulating tokens. This will be a third type of weapon that gets developed over a long period of time.
I feel like items that correspond to Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy will basically be a waste after this patch. How are you dealing with that?
Yoshida:Â After the patch, you won't obtain Philosophy anywhere - it will be replaced with Mythology. There will be a NPC available which allows you to exchange currency at a predetermined rate.
What will happen to Darklight equipment which you were able to obtain for Philosophy?
Yoshida:Â It will be changed to a normal dungeon drop. It will drop in the dungeons which are added to the high level roulette. Instanced dungeons will have equipment at level 70, Crystal Tower will be level 80, and Turns 1-5 of Bahamut Coil as well as mythology gear will be level 90. The increase in item level should lead to growth on the main job. When we raise the level cap with an expansion and add additional dungeons and field area, that will lead to overall character growth.
Increasing the item level is just one direction, though, we also need to increase the breadth of items available at each level, which we plan to address in the future.
About how much content do you have in mind?
Yoshida:Â We have about two years' worth of content planned. We've actually been working on the design for 3.0 for a long time now. We've already come up with dungeon names and the number of dungeons, as well as the theme and the name of the new top tier dungeon which will be like the next rendition of the Binding Coil of Bahamut. We've also come up with the look of the city area, as well as the number and theme of the field areas to be added.
However, if we look closer on the development schedule, things are more up in the air. For example, we haven't yet finalized the content for patch 2.3 because 2.3 is still in development and we want to have some level of improvisation available to us so that we can add things based on requests.
So you're already hard at work on content planned for a few years out.
Yoshida:Â Yes, we'll continue to working hard on it until we get told to cut back on our development costs.
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