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Interview with Yoshi-P (Dengeki / r/ffxiv bare TL)

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News about Phantasia potions during the PLL the 21st

[*]More retainers via micro transactions

Mirage Prism

  • Even blue items like Allagan gear can be changed.

Zodiak weapons

  • Simply put, it's relic weapons being reforged. We expect the quest to take some time to complete.
  • Incremental improvements in 2.25, 2.3, etc.
  • Most people probably won't have even completed the quest by the time 2.25 rolls arund
  • Eventually, it will have customisable stats
  • Unlike the current system where you get ultimate weapons from tokens or drops, we plan for this to be a 3rd route where you can nurture/cultivate it to your preference

Tomes

  • No more Philosophy after 2.2
  • Myth will take Philosophy's place
  • There will be an NPC around to trade Phil for Myth.

Gear

  • DL will become dungeon drops
  • il70 from high level dungeons
  • il80 from CT
  • il90 from Bahamut
  • other stuff exchanged via new Tomes

Content

  • roadmap for the next 2 years has been planned
  • most pre-production and concept work for 3.0 is complete and they're moving into production now

 

LIVE LETTER PHANTASIA UPDATE?? :D??

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[*]Content

  • roadmap for the next 2 years has been planned
  • most pre-production and concept work for 3.0 is complete and they're moving into production now

 

 

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Jesus, Square's earning that 15$ a month, aren't they?  Even WoW wasn't cranking out major content this fast, not to mention it all working well.

 

Given how bad the original FFXIV flopped, Square has pretty much earned my respect back.  Kudos to them for having some dignity for their profession and for valuing our money.

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Bugger me....well, either I am choosing WAR as my prime class at just the right time, or I'm further behind the curve than normal.  xD

 

Do not worry about what pace you're at, just be happy with it! :<

 

And seriously it looks like they're really serious about Content Patches every 3ish months. If I remember correctly they wanted a year+ before 3.0. It's looking goooood.

 

I'll probably not have Zodiak. I'm struggling to take down Ex primals and haven't touched any of the HM dungeons.

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Bugger me....well, either I am choosing WAR as my prime class at just the right time, or I'm further behind the curve than normal.  xD

 

 

I'll probably not have Zodiak. I'm struggling to take down Ex primals and haven't touched any of the HM dungeons.

 

We can tackle the Zodiaks together! :thumbsup:

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Bugger me....well, either I am choosing WAR as my prime class at just the right time, or I'm further behind the curve than normal.  xD

 

 

I'll probably not have Zodiak. I'm struggling to take down Ex primals and haven't touched any of the HM dungeons.

 

We can tackle the Zodiaks together! :thumbsup:

Brilliant! 

 

I...uh...still have to get the Rawrior to snuff though.  X3

 

And yes, I agree, the pacing of the patches is brilliant.  Me likey.

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I'm...gonna go cap my philosophy tomes.

For what? I doubt that they're going to do 1:1 phlo/myth exchange?

Even if it's 15:1, that's still myths in the bank. I have no reason not to cap philosophy.

I'm just curious as to why this news made it seem like you suddenly wanted to do it. No offense meant, just was really curious by the sudden idea of it since I'm always getting tomes.

 

Except myth cause of weekly cap.

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I'm...gonna go cap my philosophy tomes.

For what? I doubt that they're going to do 1:1 phlo/myth exchange?

Even if it's 15:1, that's still myths in the bank. I have no reason not to cap philosophy.

I agree with this ^^. Maxing out and holding seems like a reasonable way to go. Unless.....get the DL gear for a second job so not having wait for drops? Hmmmm.....now I'm torn! But that makes it fun! :)

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I guess I better move faster on getting my Relic weapon if I want to do it before Philosophy support gets dropped. :/

 

I assume they'll just make them cost Mythology tomes (hopefully fewer than 900) or remove the cost entirely. I doubt they'd remove the relics entirely.

Indeed I'm assuming that they'll make it so that the 900 Philo for the item would then be some amount of Myth (whatever ration of Philo:Myth with the NPC). Then 900 for the Zenith. Then the new tomes + whatever stuff they want to do for Zodiak.

 

Sounds pretty lengthy though. I remember some interview saying that they were surprised by the amount of players with relics or so.

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BlueGartr translated the interview.

 

Among other items:

 

What the heck is a Zodiac Weapon?

 

Yoshida: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Yes, we'll continue to working hard on it until we get told to cut back on our development costs.

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Steel Wolf

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Thanks for the translation snippet, Kannadi.  

 

Gotta say, bit :c about this direction...but then, I suppose it's not unexpected.  Gotta keep a mantra going "Ignore everyone else's iLvl...ignore everyone else's iLvl"

 

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I'm gonna craft now instead.

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