Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Seems there's a lot of BLU mage changes, with more content for them(achievement farming it seemed like, which requires full BLU parties with no unsyncing no echo). Might last a bit longer than before, it comes with a bunch of skill changes so I hope they reworked it a bit so you can have better tank/healer stuff instead of basically being 1-2abilities each.

Ninja changes looking good, so far what I got was, Ninjutsus are on the GCD now(so less of an issue with clipping, you just hit them, .5s for mudras, 1.5s for ninjutsu so a basic Raiton is 2.5s like a standard weaponskill, values got buffed too to compensate), you have 2 charges too(in case you fuck up your timing a bit, you don't have TA drifting), the DoT is not part of the combo chains anymore and can be applied mid combo(they showed 12 combo > TA > Shadow Fang > Aeolian), Ten Chi Jin now doesn't require spamming Ninjutsu between each move and simply cast every mudra right away(this is how it should have been ever since they added it), Bunshin is now per weaponskill, instead of a set duration, so you don't waste a bunch with the new on GCD ninjutsus, TA doesn't require directional anymore, nerfed to 5% for 15s instead of 10/10.

Now starting talking about the crafting changes, he's missing like 3/4 of his abilities so it seems they reworked a shit ton of stuff, hope it's not oversimplified. Well they didn't say much I guess, and they said it's only first part more changes coming in 5.2. The new crafting tree and material list is nice but not sure how efficient it'll be compared to using a 3rd party still. And desynth won't have a chance to fail anymore, but it seems otherwise it's the same thing still, not sure if it'll require to be leveled still or if it's just like removing materias where anyone can do it at any point. I guess keeping the levels would restrict what people can desynth which would add a bit of choice, but on the flipside it still makes some of the desynth complete garbage(like alch). Glad I didn't spend any money on leveling desynth this expansion though.

Valderen said:

I haven't seen the changes, but about 2/3rd of the abilities in crafting are almost never used, so I don't think removing them would really be considered gutting crafting at this point.

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Well it's yes and no, while they're ALMOST never used, once in a while you use one of them to do different things, especially on harder crafts once CP becomes an issue you can downgrade or play with lower tier versions for only a few moves or whatever. It seems all of that is kinda going away, plus a bunch of other stuff. We'll see the complete list though, they didn't show the "new" skills, and it's possible a lot of the skills removed were just changed to a slightly different version that also scales so it's not much of a concern. We'll see but I expect a lot of the depth to be gone just so people have an easier time with it.

Cybsled said:

That new gold saucer fate looks fun

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Probably will get boring pretty quick but yeah. The cup part was pretty funny.

Oh BLU is 5.15 bleh, guess I'll resub later then.

a_skeleton_02 said:

If NQ items had a use then I would agree.

But if you don't HQ a food or potion just throw it in the trash it's basically failing a combined.

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To be fair, they could rework the system to account for that. Let's say we take a 3 quality system, for 1-75% quality you get NQ, 76-99% HQ, 100% Pristine. Then you make the NQ actually not terrible, and HQ also good and Pristine not necessary but like more convenient. Examples:

For cosmetics, NQ is just the base cosmetic but undyable and untradeable, HQ is undyable tradeable, Pristine is dyable and tradeable. Cosmetics can desynth back to their rare base cost items when not bound only(when bound they desynth into random shit), so you can retry if you fuck it up, although you lose crystals and all the common materials.

For actual gear with stats, NQ is the current HQ stats, but with no overmelding, so it's useable but not great nor better than equal ilvl gear. HQ is overmeldable. Pristine is overmeldable but has one more guaranteed meld slot.

For consumables, instead of the current system, just make all food/pots the max value. Quality only affects output. NQ is 1, HQ is 2, Pristine is 4. For food instead you could scale the duration and always get the same amount, whichever.

Current items that don't have quality could use the same system, like dyes and furniture, get pristine to get more of them if you want. Wouldn't be worth it for dyes but for furniture with expensive mats it'd be nice.

Then make Pristine basically impossible to macro by requiring really high values that you can only get by fishing for procs and what not. Rescale desynth like I said so you can try again at a low cost loss if you fuck up(still takes a long time since it's a manual craft, so it balances out like that).

It'd be rewarding for people who like crafting, and useable by people who just macro(getting a 51% guaranteed macro wouldn't be too hard). Also makes HQ mats more valuable if you can hit Pristine more easily with them when it's hard to do normally(in fact it should be balanced around HQ mats).

Mind you I highly doubt they'd go for such a system, since they tend to not really want overly complex or hard stuff in their games besides Ultimate. I think at the end of the day they're gonna simplify crafting a shit ton and make it pretty boring but accessible to more people, not as bad as WoW 1click to craft system but still a lot easier.

Well the cosmetics one was just a random idea, they could leave it like it is currently fine too, it's not like HQing lvl 1 clothes for glamour does anything and furniture can't be HQed currently so no change necessary there.

The consumables change would actually reduce the amount of items in the database(all HQs stop existing since you always get the same consumables, just different amounts), on the combat gear, it does add one variation to every piece, but assuming their item database isn't complete shit, it's basically copy pasting but adding one socket and adding a new icon to represent pristine in the market(like the HQ icon, but different, hell can just make the same icon but gold, literally 30secs). Then make all NQ gear copy pasted HQ but change the overmelding tag to no. Potentially they could rework their entire database for items this way, by needing only one item base per item, and then applying modifiers depending on the NQ/HQ/Pristine tag on them(overmelding no, overmelding yes, overmelding yes and +1socket). Currently every item has 2 entries I assume for the NQ and HQ.

Anyway was just saying you can rework the crafting system to make it rewarding to actually craft stuff properly, but as I said unlikely they'll bother with something that complex that also requires people being more involved into the crafting process.