FFXIV 8.0: Evercold (January 2027)

[Vaspinne]

Okay, I thought it was just general emotes, but being able to pick your own animation for teleports or shit like that is kinda neat

[Gokulo]

Besides the new job, new zone stuff and a bit of the story stuff, this has just been a recap of the Anaheim fanfest announced changes so far

Yeah, kinda annoying we're wasting time repeating the same stuff

[The Stig]

Not too surprised though they need to pad it out somehow haha

RE: miqote face paint being toggleable; I've had mine off since 2.0 day 1, so I'm not sure what the change was there lol

[Gokulo]

Ehh, considering how much the expansion is supposed to shake up the foundation of the game I'd think there's plenty of stuff to talk about

[Vaspinne]

Okay, they are winning me over so far with this focus on customization and character uniqueness

[Gokulo]

Holy moly, Chocobo companions in dungeons

Didn't think they would go back to revamp this ever

[Vaspinne]

Yeah, I thought that was a system that was long forgotten and ignored. Another very welcome update

[Gokulo]

FF7 8-man raid!

[The Stig]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

2 power houses that is Eva and FF7 powering this now lol

[Vaspinne]

Dawntrail numbers must have been really rough if they're bringing 2 big collabs to Evercold lol

[Gokulo]

Hope we'll get glams of different characters, I want to look like Yuffie

[The Stig]

Hope we'll get glams of different characters, I want to look like Yuffie

Tifa and Barret confirmed. good luck XD

[Lokus]

Dawntrail numbers must have been really rough if they're bringing 2 big collabs to Evercold lol

Is FFVII really a collab when they've been using it since 1.0?

Overall, the keynote sucked imo. Mostly rehased information with the raid tier theme and the new gold saucer game being the only real new things. Chocobos in dungeons just tells me that dungeons will continue to be slop, even moreso to accommodate npc-AI.

[Gokulo]

Dungeons will never improve too much since they're basically the lowest level of group content for tome farming

[Cantih]

Officially known as the "Bastion" job, and the Gun-Claw-Shields are called Skyltborgs

If I don't see a virgin Monk / chad Bastion meme by the end of the day, I'm gonna be disappointed in the community.

[Anoat]

As a Sea Wolves Roe male main, I’m eating good on this update between Bastion and the Barrett gear.

Exciting to see they finally used the “break glass in case of emergency” FFVII collab.

Not a fan of the keyboard brawler since, well, I play on PS5 with a controller and no keyboard Hope they have some kind of alternative for that.

They are going from one expansion with impossible to spell South American names to another with impossible to spell Norse names lol, poor Fox Con

[The Stig]

Not a fan of the keyboard brawler since, well, I play on PS5 with a controller and no keyboard Hope they have some kind of alternative for that.

FFXIV really seemed to have pigeon holed themselves here when it comes to quests that involves mini games. We know this "type this phrase or word into /say" exists based on some dailies and the odd quest here and there and this is just really a recycling of that but solely just that but with typing. There seems to be no way for them to innovate much here at all.

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For those that couldn't say after the main initial event (I had to leave but it was a well timed family event), the VOD is up:



There's a sound design panel after but I wasn't interested
Then something community panel that I was also not interested
BST panel starts at 7:38:54 into the VOD, I'm watching it right now having just got home
EDIT: oh it's a live letter but i skimmed a bit and seems to be BST related mostly

[Anoat]

During the sound panel Soken played a few effects from the new DPS job being announced at Tokyo. Sounded like a bird screech. Couple that with the pink haired miqote in the trailer, got me thinking new job is Falconer. Kinda really close to BST but what do I know

[Gokulo]

As a Sea Wolves Roe male main, I’m eating good on this update between Bastion and the Barrett gear.

Exciting to see they finally used the “break glass in case of emergency” FFVII collab.

Not a fan of the keyboard brawler since, well, I play on PS5 with a controller and no keyboard Hope they have some kind of alternative for that.

They are going from one expansion with impossible to spell South American names to another with impossible to spell Norse names lol, poor Fox Con

I hear a phone Bluetooth keyboard would work

[The Stig]

During the sound panel Soken played a few effects from the new DPS job being announced at Tokyo. Sounded like a bird screech. Couple that with the pink haired miqote in the trailer, got me thinking new job is Falconer. Kinda really close to BST but what do I know

Ah the trailer girl who they said was going to be a main character if I recall. So we'll probably bump into her during the next story segment? It'll make sense for a representative to show up along with a job. If that is indeed going to be the job I don't mind, it looks like a magical orientated BST with a magical bird. If that bird is the focus then I don't mind, I just don't want another half copy paste of a SMN because as it stands I feel SMN is like a failure job lol; since the rework we lost a somewhat pet job

I hear a phone Bluetooth keyboard would work

Posting before anyone can haha



EDIT: about 30 mins into the VOD for BST live letter. Looks pretty MID for now.