Comments from the Devs

[Burningthought]

No spoilers for this monday. I wonder what the community team is up to.

[Makwa]

A new ferry route will open
The ferry route will take us to Vana'Diel

Eorzea was Tenzen's land the entire time

Lol..... that shit tho milking FFXI. Would be fucking baller as hell

With future expansions traveling to Bastok, Sandy and Windurst as endgame zones with high level content?

[Vuitton]

We'll finally have an AH.

[solracht]

Why we haven't been getting info:

Greetings everyone,

Sorry for the delay in getting additional information for you all (us NA reps were out of the office yesterday due to a national holiday). I understand everyone is looking forward to more information, and as Triairy mentioned, Yoshida has been busy finalizing patch 1.21 content, like the job quests, and hasn't been able to be as active on the forums. Once the content is finalized, we'll be sure and let you know the date that the patch is set to go live in an upcoming Letter from the Producer which will be released soon.

That said, there are a lot of heated comments in this thread, and I would ask everyone to be careful in how they treat each other on the forums. If comments continue to be out of line, we will need to close the thread.

Company seals from Toto-rak/Darkhold items:

In patch 1.21 we are implementing a new supplies mission that will request you to deliver unique/untradable items for company seals.

The unique/untradable items dropped from the Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, Dzemael Darkhold and NMs will be what’s requested for you to deliver, so dust off those Verdant Scepters and Ascetic's Tights and head back to battle against Batraal and friends!

More details on the items as well as how many company seals you can receive for delivering them will be announced in the patch notes before it goes live. We will continue to increase more ways to obtain company seals as we keep moving forward.

Job stuff:

Hey gang,

There were a few questions answered in regards to the upcoming debut of the Job System that we wanted to pass along. While this isn't the full list of details, as those will be revealed on Lodestone in an upcoming article, there are a few questions we have answers for.

A player asked if you can use job stones (tentative) while in combat; and just like changing classes, as long as you're in passive mode and not engaged with an enemy, you'll be able to switch jobs.

There was also a question about linking class weapon skills with job specific weapon skills; since you'll be able to utilize your class actions while on a job (for example, using lancer actions while playing as dragoon), you will be able to combo class and job actions. There was also a question asking to confirm whether or not you can wear job artifact armor while playing as a class; you cannot wear job specific armor while playing as a class.

[solracht]

Dalamud is the 'moon'
Meteor is the name of the project/magic/allaghan shit to slam Dalamud into Eorzea (specifically that region of Hydaelyn or whatever the fuck it's spelled like)
Monsters are probably from Dalamud
Dalamud is probably (I think it might have been hinted to be?) a construct of the Allaghan Empire
You can spearfish Allaghan snails
Therefore the final boss the Umbral Era shit will be a giant snail with a Dalamud shell
This snail will be known as Garlemand's eikon; it will be overwhelmed by Eorzea's primals
The Black Wolf / Darth Vader guy will take over Darnassus' place and lead the fight for what looks like Thanalan
Raubahn will get stabbed in the eye and become a Blue Mage; soon players will be allowed to become a Blue Mage (it evolves from Gladiator, obvi)
Draylo will be denied Blue Mage as participating in the Umbral Era events will be a prerequisite
When 2.0 fails, there will be an Astral Era event to herald in 3.0
There will be a battle with the Twelve and win then we'll get transported to an alternate dimension where the Twelve have fused into one supreme being
We obviously defeat this supreme being but no one notices
Eighth? Astral Era
The Garlaen Emperor summons the Dalamud Snail again
Ishgard and Sharalya (or w/e) are finally unlocked and participate in the fight this time
Adventurers + 5 city states push Garlaen Empire back to wherever the fuck they're from and liberate Ala Mhigo
Adventurers may never enter Ala Mhigo proper, only the safehold constructed during the Garlaen Occupation by Ala Mhigan Patriots
A new ferry route will open
The ferry route will take us to Vana'Diel

Eorzea was Tenzen's land the entire time

Contributing:

http://i39.tinypic.com/r2nwit.jpg

I should probably find out which font they use.

[Cichy]

Contributing:

http://i39.tinypic.com/r2nwit.jpg

I should probably find out which font they use.

lmao, looks like "little while longer" turned out to be 8 years too

[Elcura]

Contributing:

http://i39.tinypic.com/r2nwit.jpg

I should probably find out which font they use.

I lol'd at the last picture.

[Jamison]

Google-translated dev comment:

Patch 1.21 is, if the target has reached the maximum number of delivery Delivery is scheduled to change to allow 28 hours after delivery again.

Which I take to mean when a supply/provisioning item fills up, it will become available for delivery again 28 hours later

[Nullibicity]

Why is there still no new info -_-

[Niiro]

They're using all of their resources trying to find how best to break it to everyone that jobs won't be coming until 2.0 and the rest of 1.21 is delayed until mid-late March.

[shidobu]

They're using all of their resources trying to find how best to break it to everyone that jobs won't be coming until 2.0 and the rest of 1.21 is delayed until mid-late March.

part of me knows this is true.. But i dont care anymore on to tera

[miokomioko]

• They are waiting for 1.21 to go live and for people to experience it for a bit before they publish the next player survey (they have split it into two surveys; "gathering/synthesis" and "battle.").

• You will be able to macro job-change stones (seemed obvious).

• They plan on resetting provisioning/supply quests every 28 hours (instead of 1 week).

• Something is changing with the Airships come 1.22 (not sure what exactly).

• New races/genders will be available for retainers as well (probably won't be until 2.0).

[Elcura]

They're using all of their resources trying to find how best to break it to everyone that jobs won't be coming until 2.0 and the rest of 1.21 is delayed until mid-late March.

I don't know why, but my heart sank a little bit reading this.

[Raldo]

• They are waiting for 1.21 to go live and for people to experience it for a bit before they publish the next player survey (they have split it into two surveys; "gathering/synthesis" and "battle.").

Sounds like just one survey with multiple sections to me, from what Reinhart translated... not that it really matters one way or another. I can't imagine peoples' answers would change all that much before or after the patch (I don't recall any radical core system changes aside from jobs + HQ changes), but I suppose after the patch people might be less bitchy since they just got their new content fix.

[Sephiroth]

I'd rather they delay the patch to April at this rate. Server merges should have been their priority. If people can't do content because they have no one to play with what's the point of adding content?

[Gokulo]

No wai, I hurried up for no reason and paid for the game now, I want the patch before my time runs out!! :<

[kyod]

I'd rather they delay the patch to April at this rate. Server merges should have been their priority. If people can't do content because they have no one to play with what's the point of adding content?

I would be honestly shocked if there are people who haven't done Ifrit/Moogle yet and have played since those primal battles were released. Pick-up groups on Trabia regularly shout for them and get players.

[Sephiroth]

I guess I'm just too stubborn to do hard content in a pickup group. I'm a no bullshit kind of player so I would just get pissed off at all the incompetent groups I'd be sure to end up in. I've only beaten Moogle once and I didn't even have the quest active, back when I was trying out for some new LS. Had to cancel my application once Yoshi mentioned server merges to avoid being a dick who joins, gets loot and leaves after a few months.

There's no reason merges should have taken over three months from announcement to implementation, it has ruined 1.21 for a lot of people. There will be no fun in doing 1.21 content a few weeks after the patch when everyone has a set formula for automatic success, it's just a loot grind at that point.

[Corrderio]

I really can't blame you there Seph. Pick up groups may work if you're bored, but for the most part are unreliable.

[Burningthought]

• They are waiting for 1.21 to go live and for people to experience it for a bit before they publish the next player survey (they have split it into two surveys; "gathering/synthesis" and "battle.").

• You will be able to macro job-change stones (seemed obvious).

• They plan on resetting provisioning/supply quests every 28 hours (instead of 1 week).

• Something is changing with the Airships come 1.22 (not sure what exactly).

• New races/genders will be available for retainers as well (probably won't be until 2.0).

The supply shit still changes items once a week, but if the supply cap maxes out (3000/3000) it'll reset back to zero (0/3000) after 28 hours.