Comments from the Devs

[Raldo]

Crafting AF looks pretty spiffy. The Crafting Guildmasters were also wearing AF in Beta. They all look nice. I'm wondering if it will be Quest reward, or you make it yourself as part of a quest.

The crafting "AF" hats to match the sets were in 1.0, and they were all crafted. It is unfortunate, however, that they were not all crafted by their respective jobs, so many classes must lean on other classes (mainly weaver) in order to get their AF.

[Cichy]

At least it doesn't look like this?





I kinda' wish it did, though.

yeah this one looks way better

[Sephiroth]

Is Titan confirmed for launch or are we just starting with the primals that were in 1.0?

[miokomioko]

I believe Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan were all confirmed for Summoner to have access to. I think it's a pretty safe assumption that Titan will be in at release considering they've shown footage of fighting him as well as his items/Egi.

Just waiting on any official word regarding Leviathan/Ramuh/Shiva now.

[Alkar]

Titan is confirmed as well as Odin for launch. Ramuh is coming a bit later and I don't think they've mentioned Leviathan yet. Shiva will likely be the last addition.

As a side note, is anyone able to confirm wether or not the Japanese client still uses -ra, -ga, -ja tiers over the stupid numbers? It's not a big deal but I really don't like it and apparently only the English translation is going with this.

[Spider-Dan]

The crafting "AF" hats to match the sets were in 1.0, and they were all crafted. It is unfortunate, however, that they were not all crafted by their respective jobs, so many classes must lean on other classes (mainly weaver) in order to get their AF.

WVR/LTW/ARM largely depend on BSM/GSM for their tools and accessories. Turnabout is fair play.

[Rocl]

And cooking is fucked regardless, get out

[miokomioko]

I finally equipped my frying pan for the first time before server-down, so I could flip through the crafting journal... LOLINGREDIENTS. What happened?

[Spider-Dan]

You can level cooking to 15 easily from NPCed guild ingredients, which (unless you actually want to main cooking) is all you need. If you have a crafting manual II from GC, crafting log to 15 should get you there easily.

It's going to be interesting to see how LTW and CUL level up on the non-legacy servers. ALC is also going to hurt.

P.S.

And cooking is fucked regardless, get out

Cooking always got the shaft from day 1, nothing to see here, move along.

Hasty Touch is pretty gdlk though. Combine Hasty Touch with Steady Hand and you get the equivalent of 5 Basic Touchs at <5CP per (instead of 24CP per).

The abusive exploiter in me hates to say this out loud, but HQ system is kind of broken in this version and should probably be fixed. 43ALC is the new /37NIN. You basically get infinite turns at LV10+.

http://viperbeam.com/ffxiv/hqsynth-b3.jpg

[Raldo]

WVR/LTW/ARM largely depend on BSM/GSM for their tools and accessories. Turnabout is fair play.

My luminary tool and militia offhand (which are closest things to a DoH relic or AF in the tool slots) say otherwise.

[miokomioko]

You can level cooking to 15 easily from NPCed guild ingredients,

Well, I'm 50 CUL... and they seem to be a bit wishy-washy about how "simplified" they were going to make the cooking recipes since Yoshi took over. They're better than 1.0, especially at low-levels, but still really bad mid-level and up.

[Sephiroth]

I think cooking and alchemy will be where the money is in ARR. Consumables are so convenient and medicine seems more relevant.

[Rocl]

rip cooking 2010-2010

[Spider-Dan]

My luminary tool and militia offhand (which are closest things to a DoH relic or AF in the tool slots) say otherwise.

If not for luminary/militia, I would have said "entirely" instead of "largely."

Still remains to be seen whether HQ crafted tools+CP materia will be superior to luminary+militia. I think it might be close.

On the materia subject, on the last day of phase 3, I converted my Ifrit Bow and got... Savage Aim IV. Are tier V materia currently in the game?

[Cichy]

I think most recipes are still hidden. I couldnt see the recipes for relic weapons either.

[solracht]

Didn't they say you'd actually have to learn recipes from guildleves and other events, ala WoW? (as in, you need to "flag" the recipe in-game).

Admittedly this was only mentioned before the alpha even came out so it's possible everything's changed by now, but that'd explain a lot of missing recipes that you can't currently find in the journal.

[Rocl]

A way to test would've been to find someone who had crafted the pre-relic weapons or had received the recipe from a guildleve during 1.0 as those appeared to be all the synths I had flagged.

[Spider-Dan]

If you mean the class-only double-meld weapons like Sarnga, I made quite a few of those in 1.0 and didn't see it in beta 3 crafting log.

[Cichy]

I crafted most of them in 1.0 and when I looked at the recipes now I cant see them. I'm pretty sure there will be many more recipes at release it seems lacking right now. My bet it's like achievements and it's just copy pasted from 1.0

[Stanislaw]

As a side note, is anyone able to confirm wether or not the Japanese client still uses -ra, -ga, -ja tiers over the stupid numbers?

I can confirm it. Both Spells and Materia use those tiers.