Comments from the Devs

[Eanae]

- Male Miqotes (and other races?) will have unique motions when entering baths

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[Evane]

In comparison to other ear options, it was, and moreso for specific classes.

Could shed more light on this statement?

[Raldo]

Could shed more light on this statement?

Going off of mooglebox's still-1.0 database of earrings...

The earrings used to grant acc/m.acc, which no other earring did except Militia Earrings. The Regen/Refresh+1 were icing on the cake. In the grand scheme of things, 1hp/mp per tick doesn't ever add up to much, but every little bit helps, right?

Earrings in 1.0 as a whole sucked.

DDs might wear the atk+5 earrings, but personally I'd value 3 acc over 5 atk.
Tanking and want more accuracy? Well, the Militia Earrings had -20 enmity, so these were your only option.
I don't remember if m.acc was very useful for anything by the end of 1.0.

[Evane]

That's the thing though. It was a M.Acc and Acc earring if you had Acc issues. And if you did, you should've eaten cod puffs/buttons in a blanket or whatever they were called. There were also HMP/AMP +5 earrings IIRC that were arguably better. The regen/ref+1 were useless back then and useless now.

Just my 2 cents.

[Raldo]

I completely agree, but unless Slashing Resistance +3 is a full 3% reduction in Slashing Damage, then they weren't nearly this useless back in 1.0. I think most of us expected some level of usefulness; it doesn't need to be best-in-slot. Heck, I think retaining the old stats of acc/m.acc/regen/refresh would've been fine, and much better than what was given instead. It would've still been terribly useless, especially given that earrings aren't absolute shite this time around, but they wouldn't be as fail as they are now.

Heck, slashing resistance is only good for tanks. The old stats were at least equal-opportunity.

[xopher]

Not really surprised by that. It is a bit ridiculous that they'd release a very good earring, put it in the hardest fight in the game and then turn it into a vanity item afterwards. But I don't own it so I don't care.

Look at the Imperial Operative hats. They nerfed them so bad you can't even use them on multiple classes anymore.

[Rocl]

Inc Pandemonium Warden

I'm hoping he meant "in game" !!!!

[solracht]

That's the thing though. It was a M.Acc and Acc earring if you had Acc issues. And if you did, you should've eaten cod puffs/buttons in a blanket or whatever they were called. There were also HMP/AMP +5 earrings IIRC that were arguably better. The regen/ref+1 were useless back then and useless now.

Just my 2 cents.

The earrings were still best for some classes back then. Whether they were only good because all the other options were shit or not is irrelevant. They could have left the stats the same as they were in 1.0, and then they could have added better earrings in AV/CC or primal battles. Something tells me a lot of butthurt would've been avoided had they taken this approach.

I have them but personally I don't care. I can definitely see why some people feel cheated though.

[Rocl]

I never picked up my Dalamud Horn after getting the achievement. I had better be able to pick it up when Phase 4 hits.

[miokomioko]

I'm 99.93444882307511% certain they said unclaimed achievement rewards could still be collected, even if the achievement itself is no longer completable.

However, I don't have the ambition to dig up that statement myself.

edit: and Raldo comes through.

[Raldo]

I never picked up my Dalamud Horn after getting the achievement. I had better be able to pick it up when Phase 4 hits.

I actually remember where to find the official response for this!
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ent#post803178

For those of you who forget to receive your title from an NPC after completing an achievement in the current version, don’t worry, your hard work will carry over into A Realm Reborn and we will make it possible to obtain the title you rightfully deserve.

It only says title, but hopefully items apply as well.

[Churchill]

3MACC was better on BLM for a lot of stuff, especially due to Thunder combo.

3ACC was eh sometimes better for WAR just due to the hybrid nature of gearing it for a lot of content. Using a Bravura you didn't even get full bonus from eating accuracy food, so between DD gear, what enmity you mixed in, pipira, etc, 3ACC to bring your actual hit rate up 4-5% was a big deal just because of lolSkullSunder. I knew how much damage I needed to do each fight to hold hate, but missing a Skull Sunder was very often a bad day.

The refresh/regen were lulsy, but so was wearing Choral Body for BRD unless you were using BV

[Spira]

um not sure where to post this..

they've released a 2nd fan kit with nice phone wallpapers and twitter icons lol

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...8694d1f75bdfaa

i dunno if its because its on mobile but they've quite consciously stripped down the FFXIV logo. i wonder if its a subtle way of dropping A Realm Reborn for just FFXIV Online in the near future

[Gokulo]

Didn't Yoshi said that he would want to actually just call it Final Fantasy Online in the future?

[Kelenae]

Look at the Imperial Operative hats. They nerfed them so bad you can't even use them on multiple classes anymore.

Dont know.. not swimming in Darklight but its pretty good for my Bard since its better then AF

[Raldo]

um not sure where to post this..

they've released a 2nd fan kit with nice phone wallpapers and twitter icons lol

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...8694d1f75bdfaa

i dunno if its because its on mobile but they've quite consciously stripped down the FFXIV logo. i wonder if its a subtle way of dropping A Realm Reborn for just FFXIV Online in the near future

Ahaha, that djigga. Is that new? I don't remember seeing that before.

[kmexe]

Thanks based SE for my new twitter icon.

[Teknique]

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...e/10143_10.jpg thf!? nevermind. its a pgl with weird jamadhars...

[miokomioko]

That's a Pugilist using patas.

[Evane]

Didn't Yoshi said that he would want to actually just call it Final Fantasy Online in the future?

I remember in one interview Yoshi was asked on why was "A Realm Reborn" larger and more prominent that FFXIV. He said something like if it was up to him he would've removed FFXIV entirely from the covers because of the bad rep associated with it.