AARGH! Hit the work 30 min limit on media consumption, tells me to contact my Administrator! (oh wait, I am my administrator :D!)
Officially ready for this patch, the soundtrack sounds brilliant, and looks to be a lot of casual friendly content, individual rooms looked larger than I thought (never saw an unfurnished small house so no real frame of reference)
At 4:18 there's a huge fucking gnat that flies by that I didn't see the first time
Did I see some open world Octopus?
We have limits on media consumption time per user (30 minutes by default). It is to preserve bandwith, we have approx 100 people working in HQ, and branch offices with a lot more that are all connected in via VPN.
We have 50mbit fiber, but use a lot of bandwith (terminal services, run everything on our own servers etc. so can easily have a few hundred devices poking their heads in at any given time), so it is in place to prevent people from making our infrastructure kneel from streaming etc. (although low damage content such as spotify still works even if you hit your quota. Youtube etc. stops).
(it's a system that's in place from back when we were in xDSL and bandwith was more scarce, but I haven't really seen any need to remove it, it's an effective control measure, and we can set quotas/unlimited on the users/systems that for whatever reason have the need to, during larger sporting events etc. we convert some of the bigger meeting rooms to show events on the big screen anyway)
On a side note: that Ramuh soundtrack, me wants more!
No Ultros makes me sad
But it looks like monk and dragoon will share ct gear...
If Monk shares that DRG stuff I'm going to be supremely pissed, I'm hoping the Roe on the left is the Monk stuff and they just didn't show tank set for whatever reason.... blugh. I even looked through the video carefully and didn't see anyone wearing the left set.
Fucking wish Musketeer was being added anytime soon, that Bard set is awesome but I have no interest in leveling Bard past 34.
Looking like:
Far left: PLD, WAR
Second from left: WHM, SCH
Center left: MNK (or DRG)
Center right: BRD
Second from right: BLM, SMN
Far right: DRG (or MNK)
That's what it is -- SE has no reason to not show off gear for one class in these pictures.
Edit: I take some of that back. Actually, I can see why someone would say tank set is missing now. This was the picture shown in the live letter:
Whether it's Crystal Tower gear or for something else now remains to be seen. It would mean WAR & PLD share gear with DRG (Acheron looking set would be MNK then) or is not posted at all and is as depicted in picture. I would chance believe now that we've seen the sets which are reminiscent of Acheron, Scylla, Guardian & Amon, the armor in question in the picture has been re-purposed or used for something else, perhaps Monster Hunts.
With that, a bit of speculation for patch 2.5:
Since at the top of the tower in 2.3 houses Xande, I wonder where 2.5 will take us in the Crystal Tower? Xande is supposed to be the final boss before heading into the World of Darkness in FFIII. Within the World of Darkness, the Warriors of Light must face Cloud of Darkness' four guardians, Ahriman, Cerberus, Echidna, and Two Headed Dragon (or Twin Dragon). Pictures for Ahriman & Cerberus are already in the artbook for SE FFXIV. I wonder if 2.5 will jump right into this with 2.6 being the conclusive Cloud of Darkness battle, or if they will artificially extend the Crystal Tower with filler from other Final Fantasy games before reaching this conclusion. We got Nero tol Scaeva waiting in the background for the Adventurers and Cid to uncover a power source greater than the Ultima Weapon, a new "toy" to play with (Proto-Ultima? Atma Weapon? Ultima Buster? Omega Weapon? Omega?).
Did not expect Xande fight so soon, hence my own speculation.
Wonder how the primal recipes will work. If you already have the weapon and have used it but dont have the crafting class to upgrade it.
Me likey the ramuh theme.
Problem being, my matches never lasted enough for a LB to trigger, so I was under the impression LB were not available.You can LB in Wolves' Den, our only other PVP content so far.
Glad to learn I was wrong.
hype for more hildibrand
I don't see any set based on Xande, so maybe that's the monk set?
http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/p....png?9e585a8v1
Perhaps, it's really quite weird.
those CT sets have me pretty pump, want the bard, healer and caster set now. Im also excited for real story progression this time. Looks like getting a lot more Ascian stuff and did they show Ishgard!?
@ 4:38/4:39 the caster decked out in white with the giant descending head... Is that Edda and the head-in-a-bag?
Edit: Now that I watch the Tam-Tara(HM) portion again, totally some Full metal Alchemist shit going on down there, bitch lost her damn mind!