Comments from the Devs

[Gokulo]

Also, the guy that translated that stuff said the book throw was said jokingly ;<

Also, someone expanded on the music thing:

If I gave away all I learned of while in attendance my job would be pointless but I'll expand on one thing you started to write about, the music. It'll change depending on your distance to the centre-point source, ie, the aetheryte etc. It'll kind of fade out as you edge further away from the particular area in which it's featured. The sound effects are in abundance also. Look forward to Japanese publications this week and next week!

[Alkar]

I have a feeling anything extremely powerful or iconic is going to get assigned to an NPC. You can't give what is supposed to be the very best to players, because our items have to get stronger for progress/expansion. This is where XI's relics really fell flat and limited the game ultimately.

Hildebrand will discover the Genji armor but we'll never get it.

Well BLM gets Meteor as their limit break and it's usually the most powerful black magic spell in existance (including in FFXI). I really don't see what's stopping them for the other jobs/classes. You can only use limits in a party setting and only once in god knows how long. They are meant to be powerful attacks.

[Thiefami]

I'd say Ultima is the strongest black magic spell in the series

[silverdragontyr]

I have a feeling anything extremely powerful or iconic is going to get assigned to an NPC. You can't give what is supposed to be the very best to players, because our items have to get stronger for progress/expansion. This is where XI's relics really fell flat and limited the game ultimately.

Hildebrand will discover the Genji armor but we'll never get it.

That's because Hildebrand is Gilgamesh in disguise.

[Spira]

Also, the guy that translated that stuff said the book throw was said jokingly ;<

Also, someone expanded on the music thing:

speaking of music..

has anyone gotten their hands on this?

i can't find it in the store. i think they took it down due to the tracklisting being wrong

[Psion]

delectably merton is too (since with your party equipped with fire shields, it was essentially a 9999 to all non fire absorbing mobs + full heal to party)

[Gokulo]

speaking of music..

has anyone gotten their hands on this?

i can't find it in the store. i think they took it down due to the tracklisting being wrong

Yeah, I think they posted something about that on the jp side, I guess they're fixing stuff.

[Grey Jorildyn]

Ultima, Merton, Meteor... Just depends on which game you're playing. Personally I've always felt Ultima was the best spell but that might have something to do with my love of VI. Meteor is a big rock, sure, but Ultima is just a pure blast of magic!

[Alkar]

I'd say Ultima is the strongest black magic spell in the series

Not really no. Meteor is the strongest spell in most of the classic FF games and arguably in most recent entries too as well as being a key element of FFVII.
If you consider the series as a whole Meteor is a much better choice than Ultima.

[vadre]

I would love Summoner's limit break to be alexander's divine judgement, but it's probably not iconic enough and as others have said, I expect it'll turn out to be Megaflare or something. Considering summoner will only be using a piece of the primal's power, I hope they get the chance to use alexander down the line as a holy primal (but it's not exactly 'primal' being as it's usually a big castle or something so maybe not, perhaps maduin/madeen instead).

Loving the idea of this limit break system, really hope it maintains usefulness in the game. If it just comes about from fighting normally to fill a bar, I can't see it being anything but added damage unless it takes a long ass time to execute.

Edit: Tbh, considering we've already had 'project meteor' in the game, I vote that BLM summons a mini-dalamud to slam down upon the battleground, moving everyone forward 5 years and reshaping the dungeon; a Toto-rak reborn.

[Lonely]

Not really no. Meteor is the strongest spell in most of the classic FF games and arguably in most recent entries too as well as being a key element of FFVII.
If you consider the series as a whole Meteor is a much better choice than Ultima.

FF1: Flare
FF2: Ultima
FF3: Meteor
FF4: Meteor
FF5: Flare
FF6: Ultima
FF7: Ultima
FF8: Ultima
FF9: Doomsday but Vivi also had meteor as a seperate spell.
FF10: Ultima
FF11: ??? was meteor actually useful or was it just there on your spell list because it looked nice?
FF12: lol, but ultima the summon was top tier.
FF13: lol but the final boss did have Ultima, Meteor was no where.

[Elcura]

+1 to the Ultima train. It needs to happen cause Meteor is cool, but Ultima always looks slick and impressive.

[TacoTaru]

Didn't Yoshida say there were different tiers of Limit Breaks, meaning that each job actually would have more than one?

[Katagai]

speaking of music..

has anyone gotten their hands on this?

i can't find it in the store. i think they took it down due to the tracklisting being wrong

I purchased it the minute it allowed you to. Was initially $11.99 but unpurchaseable (along with the Ishgard, Limsa Lominsa, Ul'dah and Gridania albums). They then changed the price to $3.99? and I was able to buy it. For the most part the songs match the title, but I'm not 100% sure.

EDIT: Forgot to add that Eorzean Frontiers is the 4 seperate nation albums + Mor Dhona.

[Mina]

Didn't Yoshida say there were different tiers of Limit Breaks, meaning that each job actually would have more than one?

I can't remember exactly about that but I do know that the English PAX demonstration the guy talked about there being 3 tiers. Also he said that it was class dependent and that Meteor was BLM's Tier 3. (Or this could be my fever remembering things wrong).

[LD]

Didn't Yoshida say there were different tiers of Limit Breaks, meaning that each job actually would have more than one?

I think so. Something about how people use abilities, it fills tiers of quotas, and the limit break. I understand some somethings aren't set in stone for them yet, but they need to drop a detailed write-up soon. August was a flood of teasers, not information.

[TacoTaru]

Calling it a flood of anything is being a little generous in my opinion. I'm going to guess outside of maybe that list of equipment going away that we're not going to get much until TGS.

[Thiefami]

I wonder how they will designate who will use it. I can't wait to wipe in a PUG when we've all decided on Whitewind as a saving grace, and some monk named Xxzelldinchxx Kisaragi uses Final Heaven instead.

[Gokulo]

Well, if all limit breaks are are offensive then there's no problem D;

Generally, I think they might go with a sort of a confirmation method? E.g. one player chooses to use the limit break and then the rest of the party has to confirm (which is somehow reminiscent of regiment, which LB are replacing).

[Lucavi]

Well BLM gets Meteor as their limit break and it's usually the most powerful black magic spell in existance (including in FFXI). I really don't see what's stopping them for the other jobs/classes. You can only use limits in a party setting and only once in god knows how long. They are meant to be powerful attacks.

Ultima is stronger than meteor in every FF except for FFT, since its a skill, not a spell.

Meltdown (Merton's official name) is probably the most unstable spell out there, but I think ultima had a higher attack power.