Thread: Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV - Patch 3.1 November 10    

Originally Posted by Carth

Note the bolded. If SE's answer is to keep all tanks in tank stance, then this is a pretty good explanation, but if the goal is to allow for tanks' dps to matter then some issues arise. Stance swapping would become more difficult to maintain because you can't generate enough of a enmity buffer. This is actually a pretty big concern for Warrior since being able to sit in Deliverance is half the reason why that job is so fun.

fixed that for you.

WAR has the strongest hate generation period and as long as they have SE, SP, and excellent mitigation they're not going anywhere.

Deliverance is not why people bring WAR, it's why a lot of people play WAR tho.

PLD and DRK are far worse off already whatever the future changes may bring, their enmity combos are their weakest combos and DRK doesn't even recover MP when using theirs, lowering their damage even further.

Originally Posted by Niiro

Deliverance is not why people bring WAR,

Incorrect.

Originally Posted by KCem

I wonder how they're going to take melded raid gear into account when balancing future raids. If the whole party needs the additional dps stats, then all this change has done is shift the burden of melding shit from the tanks to everyone instead, and at a potentially higher cost.

One of the translations claimed that you won't be able to overmeld raid/tome gear. No idea if he said that but it would make sense.

Originally Posted by Alkimi

One of the translations claimed that you won't be able to overmeld raid/tome gear. No idea if he said that but it would make sense.

Obviously better on the wallet if we don't have to overmeld, but if they tune the fights with all materia slots containing a tier 5 materia, then assuming slots available stays the same as what we can currently meld we'll have 18 materia that we need to use, which will be massively more expensive then current and previous tank melded accessories ever needed. Not only that but now all 8 members of the party need to do it.

And lets not rule out the probability that upgraded gear will likely have any melds wiped clean.

Originally Posted by niwaar

Officially stated... Only secondary stats can be Melded into Raid/Tome gear. No Overmelding. So we can assume 1-2 guaranteed Materia slots that will not allow main stats. Including PIE which is far from a main stat currently.

So the real question is... will gear have enough accuracy by itself to have us hit caps with food or does the new system force melding accuracy? Either way, we are going to see Accuracy melding to be the norm, followed by Crit. WHM's may go for Det and BLM (and other jobs with SS thresholds) may go for SS.

This isn't fun, it does give us a bit more leeway into how we gear. However seeing as we will once again only have 2 sets of viable gear at the level, it really doesnt fricking matter. Its only giving us more illusion that we have any choices in the matter anyway.

In before 'We'll teach you bitches to ignore elemental materia. Full resist sets or die!'

Optional - You need different sets for each encounter

Originally Posted by KCem

Obviously better on the wallet if we don't have to overmeld, but if they tune the fights with all materia slots containing a tier 5 materia, then assuming slots available stays the same as what we can currently meld we'll have 18 materia that we need to use, which will be massively more expensive then current and previous tank melded accessories ever needed. Not only that but now all 8 members of the party need to do it.

And lets not rule out the probability that upgraded gear will likely have any melds wiped clean.

They also confirmed last night (On Duty Commenced of all things) that the points you earn from Exploratory Voyages can be exchanged for Tier V materia.

Originally Posted by Alkimi

They also confirmed last night (On Duty Commenced of all things) that the points you earn from Exploratory Voyages can be exchanged for Tier V materia.

That's some good news. That plus spirit binding should come in useful in getting a better supply of them.

Oh wow that is actually pretty awesome.

Originally Posted by Eanae

Wat.

It was just my way of pointing out that even if WAR was not the highest (personal) damage tank people would still bring it because of its utility.

I've put it like this before: if Deliverance gave no damage boost and FC/Deci had the same potencies as IB/SC WAR would still be just as much of a lock for one of the tank spots (with said limitations I'd hesitate to say DRK would pull ahead on single target damage as well, but they'd still need a WAR there for slashing debuff, which is kind of the point I'm getting at).

The fact that Deliverance/FC/Deci are the way they are makes the job a lot smoother and more fun to play compared to the other tanks, being top tank DPS is just the cherry on top.

Your comp is your comp but it would be hard to argue that if your PLD was a WAR it wouldn't improve your overall effectiveness.