Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Kincard]

Speaking of the XI soundtracks, does anybody have them er...available? Can't find mine anywhere and the links in that old BG thread are dead.

[Sechs]

Interestingly enough I'm seeing a backlash in a decent amount of players to even the slightest idea of long term goals. Lots of talk about how this isn't the old days and who is going to grind anything these days so why play... but they also have no answer when I ask them why play an MMO that they can basically beat and do so relatively quickly

o/ guilty!
What you're saying is true, and I'm partially guilty myself of that way of thinking.
Don't think it's a "right" way of thinking but you're right, a lot of players feel that way nowadays. I'm kinda somewhere in between those players and those who demand super grindy long-term goals.

Tbh with the game coming to an "end" in november all my pillars have been shaken, I don't know what to believe in anymore, not sure would would be good for this game anymore and most of all I'm not sure the answer to this question really matters anymore.
I'm just trying to enjoy whatever we're getting trying not to think about what's gonna happen (or not happen) in the future because frankly when I do I feel very demotivated, I feel like stopping to play etc.


It's not like stuff like that are useless in a MMO, but it's kinda a matter of the devs "training" the player base.
Once you "spoil" the player base there is no going back. And SE totally spoiled us for too long. Once you do that it's hard to go back to the old ways, even just a little, without a large part of the player base feeling that it's anachronistic etc.
It's kinda how people felt with the extremely expensive/rare HQ abjurations, to make a small example of things that would've been received in a very different (and better) way like 3-4 years ago.

[Sechs]

I'm sure just like Bahlran, August has a set of legendary arms.

August's weapons are the Alluvion ones though, and we already have access to those weapons/models.

At the same time... anybody remembers that c/s where Arciela talks about her father and everything seemed to be hinting at something like Dynamis - Adoulin?
Her father being alive and "trapped" somewhere in another dimension or something?
That was before Vagary came out and I'm surprised so far SE kinda dropped the thing into nothing.

Highest chance of a new set of legendary arms would be adding Ergons for the rest of the jobs

I doubt this.
Despite the different name and method of obtainment, Ergon weapons are nothing more than Mythic weapons for RUN and GEO.
If they really want to add a fourth category of legenday weapon (about which I'm still very skeptic about, but at this point I don't think like ruling out the possibility anymore) it would be a completely new category, imho.

Not all jobs would benefit from a WS though.

Yes and no.
But then again if they build very job specific weapons they could offer much more than "just" a WS. Look at some fo the specific bonuses built into some Mythics.

[Sechs]

About the "official" video posted in the other thread, is that Noryo Wakamoto dubbing Raogrimm?


edit:
Yes it's credited, it's Norio Wakamoto <3

[Kincard]

Dunno why the first thought would be for an ability over a WS for the mage jobs, they've been giving new spells through Gifts to pretty much any job that can cast spells, so the obvious choice would be to give a final big spell instead of a WS as appropriate.

The choice for a final spell for WHM would be kinda obvious. I have no idea how the heck you'd top Death though (They already used up Meteor!).

[Gokulo]

Ultima?

[Draylo]

WHM would be revivisance(SP) the one that takes away weakness. BLM I hope gets Ultima or at least a non-party based Meteor.

[Kincard]

Just finished watching that fandub thing. That was pretty cool (strange choice of voice for Bahamut though)- kinda makes me sad we'll never see the whole game like that though.

[Sechs]

Just finished watching that fandub thing. That was pretty cool (strange choice of voice for Bahamut though)- kinda makes me sad we'll never see the whole game like that though.

Not sure you can call it a fandub, it wasn't done by fans but by famous professionists of the dubbing world in Japan.
It's an official work by SE, commisioned of course but still official.
It's a series of videos appearently, not sure how many they commisioned.

[Seha]

Reisenshrine weapons!!

[errantfish]

I believe the actors used for Raogrimm, Kam'lanaut, and Eald'narche are the same ones used in Lords of Vermilion. I don't believe Zeid or Lion have ever been voiced before, so the casting is new. Not sure about Bahamut. I don't know if any of the videos will feature Shantotto, so we may not hear Hayashibara, but I'm sure we'll get Prishe, which should mean Hirano again.

[Draylo]

Am I the only one who can't stand JP VA? Like Bahamut was cringe worthy for example.

[NynJa]

That whole thing was cringe worthy
It sounded like it was done in someones basement with a 10 dollar mic in one live take

[Sechs]

Am I the only one who can't stand JP VA? Like Bahamut was cringe worthy for example.

I loved it wholeheartedly, personally.
Raogrimm above all, but pretty much all of the voices.

[Spira]

my fave part was when AA TT nukes an invisible you and u go 'no'..

[FaeQueenCory]

Reisenshrine weapons!!

I half expect an RF4 from there.
(ala: empyrean armor was reinterpreted AF1 sets, so having a recolored empyrean set using the relic palette would be interesting... or at least to me, to see what they would give them.)

[dasva]

Lol were people actually complaining about not having enough home points in towns?

[Bail]

Lol were people actually complaining about not having enough home points in towns?

Cue the memories of "back in my day when it took me an hour to run through Zi'Tah to Sky before I finished COP"

[dasva]

Cue the memories of "back in my day when it took me an hour to run through Zi'Tah to Sky before I finished COP"

Wouldn't even have to go that far... most town zones already have what 2-4 in them already? Right now the time it takes you to run from a hp to another spot in town is probably less than loading time

[NynJa]

Some areas do have some rather redundant placements though.

Bastok markets with the "exit"HP a couple steps from the AH for one