Naoki Yoshida at Gamescom/A Realm Reborn presentations

[LD]

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Edit: I'm kind of disappointed they didn't go Arcanist > Time mage, it sort of seemed like a good fit and I WANT TIME MAGE'. Also, I don't know how much they've redone Arcanist but in a not-so-old interview Yoshi said it would be a class that uses positional abilities, originally it was placing those wierd staff looking things on the ground for an aura. I wonder whether any of that is still in play.

I do miss that guy. It was cool seeing a complete out of nowhere summon with a nice design. I'm slowly warming up to the possibility of Odin being the Lightning Primal. It makes sense considering he looks like an imperial (all that magitek) and Odin was the father of Thor in Norse mythology. Arcanist? Summoner? I'm wondering how this will jibe with their concept of Primals being insanely powerful. I'm not going to bother speculating until we learn more about how Limit Breaks work, since it'll likely be tied to that. Limit breaks are apparently a group command, but it's possible its resource use could be proportional to the power of the ability. Who knows? Frankly, I wanna see if Arcanist is really the trap mage they used to talk about.

Also, this is probably old, but I just noticed it. Voldo confirmed for ARR.

[solracht]

Oh god, I just realized... Pugilist is the only class that doesn't have the class weapon in those pictures. Were they too embarrassed to show the BRICKFISTS?

[LD]

You just mad cuz he's stylin' on you.

[Mina]

So now that I've actually sat and read up on things. All I gotsta say is...

I want whips. Crap! I'm so leveling some DoM... Paragon crown is looking more likely higher on my bucket list. AHHHHHH! This is the greatest news ever. 2.0 can't fail me! It's too great to fail! My favorite FF class in FFXIV? Yes please!!!

<3 <3 <3 Summoner <3 <3 <3

I'm horny.

[Spira]

woot.

at first i wasn't getting my hopes too high with the way they were describing summoning primals and how it seemed like something everyone could pull off (general summoning, likein FF6-8 )
but of course, now that its been leaked, i'm happy cos I finally have my favorite job in the game..

also, truth be told. there is no other job in the entire FF series that screams "Final Fantasy" than Summoner. Not a single one.
Dragoon comes in second.
..so if they really wanted to bring that FF feeling back, i'd say it'd be impossible to skip on SMN.

[Thiefami]

It would be pretty cool to bring out primals in spell form like past versions in the series. Then keep the ffx,xi component of the summoner being assisted in battle, but this time by lesser known gods/demons(like carbuncle/fenrir).

[vadre]

I think what someone said before about it being similar to Yuna in dissidia would be pretty awesome. Partial summons of creatures to just do their attacks.

[Spira]

its also possible, and i think i postulated this theory many pages back, that primal summon attacks are SMN limit breaks..

other times, the smn could probably have access to a wider range of summons..

arcanist gets carby..

maybe summoner gets more, like cait sith, moomba, tonberry, sabotender, etc..
lesser primals lol, except for limit breaks.

[miokomioko]

Well, they've been describing for a while now the system where the actual Primals can only be summoned by Free Companies via one-time-use "cards" that are a rare drop from the primals themselves.

[Kami]

I'm confused. According to this thread, and the 2.0 roadmap (IIRC), the game is due to be released in early 2013. Yet, I recently found posts such as: http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/33184...ost__p__502126 mentionning a release "this year". Thoughts?

[Churchill]

they have no idea, basically

[Kami]

by "they" do you mean SE? or the source in the quote from the article I linked?

[Churchill]

SE.

They've said both, but unless they plan on doing alpha/beta in october and everything goes perfect and they 100% nail the changes and every jizzes and WOW dies and lineage decides to not even release and they cancel seekers of alduin then there's still a pretty good chance we won't see the final version until 2013.

Beta's never run that well, and if they do plan on not releasing it until it's done, it's not going to be a fast transition, and it shouldn't be.

[Gokulo]

It won't be released this year.

[Kami]

Slightly off topic i'm sorry, but it makes me wonder if i should go back to XI in the meantime. Stopped playing in 09 during ToAU IIRC. How long (playing actively daily) would it take to catch up enough on the endgame scene?

[Waraji]

Current Endgame scene is pretty hard to get into. You either are getting the hook up from someone who's in an LS that knows their shit, or you are going to get into a "casual" (everything else but the people who've been playing since beta) LS of people who still have problems grasping the concept of server lag and dying endlessly to Normal Ifrit.

[LD]

So far, the thing I'm most hyped about is that bar on the left that has a list of a available active targets. No more tab cycling. So God Damn happy.

[Churchill]

If you have friends, not very long. Once you get up to level cap with a few jobs and have some abyssea stones saved up, you'll be able to do that content. You'd easily be entertained even playing hardcore until 2.0 was released. I'm probably going to check out Salvage2.0 when it's released (if it looks worthwhile) and then stop playing again, but that's really up in the air.

It might be time to just play BF3 again instead.

[Spira]

ya. given the timeline they've laid out in front of us, XIV won't release within 2012. Most likely 2013 between March to May, if everything goes smoothly. but beta should hit before the year ends.. so i'm thinking FFXIV 1.0 may not see 2013 at all.

as for XI, the devs give me the impression that Adoulin won't be released till at least mid or late 2013. catching up is very easy these days. WotG was already for like 2 years by 09 tho. endgame would depend on your definition, as it has wildly changed since then and no longer revolves around hnms and the like.

[Kami]

ya. given the timeline they've laid out in front of us, XIV won't release within 2012. Most likely 2013 between March to May, if everything goes smoothly. but beta should hit before the year ends.. so i'm thinking FFXIV 1.0 may not see 2013 at all.

as for XI, the devs give me the impression that Adoulin won't be released till at least mid or late 2013. catching up is very easy these days. WotG was already for like 2 years by 09 tho. endgame would depend on your definition, as it has wildly changed since then and no longer revolves around hnms and the like.

My definition of "end game" is running Einjear (random spelling), Salvage, sea, ZNM and the occasional Faffy pit when its day 6+
I used to be in good endgame LS on Ragnarok, and would obviously like to catch up asap to get to play with good and active people. But quite frankly I don't even know what end game consist of these days lol