Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXI

[Prothescar]

Provenance Watcher

[Seravi Edalborez]

The fuck was that boss between the griffon and the fat serpent? Looked like a fridge with legs.

[Deuce]

Ugh the Alexander area is just allagan theme recycled again

inb4, Alexander is a mind control device developed by the Allagans to control the Goblin Hordes.

[Rocl]

Alexander being an Allagan or Garlean weapon commandeered by the Goblins is a super likely scenario lol

[Cutriss]

Still no OF WHM post, probably because of 10char limit.

[Lonely]

So how long until all these interview articles start showing up.

[SamanosukeShiva]

Raiding for 4+ hours a night looking at neon color schemes all over again, oh joy.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Official translation of machnist stuff, is more clear:

Machinist's role is similar to bard. However, the play style and the awareness for the job will greatly differ.

Their major speciality is to use buff called ammunition, and by using stacks of these it’ll add various additional effects to the weapon skills.

Reload
By using this, you can reload five stacks of ammunition. Not only will you reload when you use up all the stacks of ammunition, but you can reload when not out of any ammunition to increase the damage efficiency. Additionally, there is an action called quick reload which will instantly load one ammunition for use in dire situations, so use these utilities to manage the amount of ammunition you have.

Weapon skills work a bit differently. There are weapon skill combination where you use shot 1, shot 2, and shot 3, but using shot 1 gives a 50% chance of boost to shot 2, and another 50% chance to boost shot 3. By using ammunitions you can make sure the boost procs. Furthermore, machinist has many unique actions, such as Wildfire which charges the damage and attacks at once, and turrets which will affect party members in range, so we would like for you to try it out.

[Cutriss]

The event is over.

I'm *positive* the stuff Bayohne is posting is already vetted (complete with its grammatical errors).

So why why why does it take him so long to post all this shit.

[Carraway]

Rocl what's the name of that dungeon dragon boss

[solracht]

[Spider-Dan]

I'm *positive* the stuff Bayohne is posting is already vetted (complete with its grammatical errors).

So why why why does it take him so long to post all this shit.

Because he doesn't want to step on the toes of the stream, obviously.

There's a sizable portion of players who, if simultaneously presented with a (poorly translated) stream and a transcript of said stream, will immediately dive into and dissect the transcript.

[Rocl]

Rocl what's the name of that dungeon dragon boss

wtf how am i supposed to know this

the only substantial lore nugget in the dungeon crawl vid i could pull out was the Allag had winged Ixal in tubes which gives credence to the Ixal origin myth about a Lord of Snakes taking away their flight

there's a Celestial Dragon with a silhouette similar to an Ixal as well, so I'm thinking the Ixal are actually some kind of mutant dragon made into their current form by the Allag LOL

[Cutriss]

Because he doesn't want to step on the toes of the stream, obviously.

There's a sizable portion of players who, if simultaneously presented with a (poorly translated) stream and a transcript of said stream, will immediately dive into and dissect the transcript.

Dude, you just clipped out the most relevant line of my entire post lol.

[Voyage1970]

I'm assuming they didn't mention anything about the "substantial change to skill/spell speed" or is the fact that it now affects DoT damage the big change? Cause that seems like it would only affect SCH/SMN at any substantial level; maybe BRD.

[Lonely]

We’ll be making various adjustments to summoner which includes an action that simultaneously applies Bio, Bio II, and Miasma effects in exchange for Aetherflow, an attack that deals magic-based damage, and two other new actions at level 60 that will largely change your current rotations.

The ability Tri-Disaster has had its name changed to Tri-Bind since the effect didn’t make sense with the original name. In exchange, the aforementioned ability action that applies all three DoTs will be known as Tri-Disaster.

During development, we thought long and hard about this, but we will not be adding new egi at this time. Looking at the long-term, instead of adding more pets, we felt it better to give more use to the job by adding actions to summoner. However, I’m sure many are wondering if they will have to continue looking at the same egi forever, but we are planning to add a system in the future that will allow you to change the appearance of your egis, including Carbuncle, but their stats will remain the same.

New action: Dreadwyrm Trance
Considering rotations with an Aetherflow recast of 60 seconds, the first 30 seconds are spent casting DoTs, and the remaining 30 seconds is where this action comes into play.

Dreadwyrm Trance is an ability that summons the power of Bahamut. While under the effect of this ability, you’ll be able to gain stacks of Bahamut Ether, which you can then spend with an action.

Lulz so glamour pets, they probably won't even update the current models to make them not look like poop.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Dreadwyrm Trance should only be usable if you've beaten T13.

[Karbuncle]

I absolutely hate, sincerely hate, that I can't be excited for the new dungeons... because I know its going to be Trash mobs > Faceroll boss > Trash mobs > Faceroll boss > trash mobs > Faceroll final boss, repeat to cap <currency> until next patch. I'm a point where I don't have many things to do, I'm bored of my current library of games and its sad ._., I want to something to be excited for, I want to be excited for Heavensward I really do but I can't bring myself up to that point.

I miss enjoying things ._.

I am kinda excited about the Bahamut thing for SMN though. That looks fun.

Lulz so glamour pets, they probably won't even update the current models to make them not look like poop.

I'm absolutely okay with them letting us Glamour our pets. I'll take Carbuncle over those Egi's any day at any time. I only hope they give us a Ruby Carbuncle >_>

[Rocl]

Dreadwyrm Trance should only be usable if you've beaten T13.

I had issue w/ Dreadwyrm being tied to Summoner lorewise since you'd have to defeat Bahamut to use his power like other Egis and therefore locking Summoner abilities behind Final Coil BUT the more obvious workaround is at lv60 you fight a Bahamut-Egi regardless and that's the lore handwave LOL

[Yugl]

Pair Raw Intuition with Awareness. Easy.