Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Malakriss said:

Interesting they will let raid gear get +20 and 3 advanced meld slots each season. Crafting is "involved" in the second +10 but they did not say exactly what place any crafted combat sets would have in the new system.

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My guess is crafting sets will be the same as the casual sets for completing the battlepass stuff, but instant unlocks. I assume they might also remove overmelding entirely and instead the whole second upgrade with crafted material will replace the gold making opportunity from crafting sets for every class+selling materias. Interestingly it'd shift the money making opportunity from the even patches to the odd patches.

Some of the changes in gearing look interesting. For example upgrading the "tome gear" equivalent doesn't need savage anymore but can be done via the new mid difficulty.

The daily/weekly changes also look nice, every activity gives a set amount of points and you can do whatever you feel like to get your weekly amount of points. Once maxed, you can also start getting points for the weeks you didn't finish before(Warframe has a similar system for their battlepass thing and it's really neat when you take a break/come back). Currently tomes KINDA work like that but some activities just don't reward shit unless you nolife. Hope they rescale values so even doing other stuff works better.

Overall all these system changes look nice. Being able to pick your order for the MSQ, content scaling to you(which I'm sure they'll keep adding to old systems), only needing one set of gear for every class, easier casual gear with the mid difficulty raids, more relaxed weekly progression without the need for dailies. New job looks like whatever to me but that's ok, with evolved there's going to be a lot of jobs to play anyway. Delayed release is less nice though, I was planning my stuff for january, guess I'll need to find a game to play inbetween.

Excited about seeing job changes but I assume that's going to be in a live letter in a month or two though. They said it's finished though so hopefully they do it soon.

Reddit summary of an interview released recently too

Notably Duty Roulette consolidated into fewer categories(I assume merging some of the dungeon stuff, maybe raid/trial roulette merging and such), crafted gear is actually between the casual and raid gear which seems a bit weird as there would be no point in the casual gear and upgrading it if you can just craft gear at the same ilvl? Might be more to it

Malakriss said:

We are going from 790 to 840 which is the typical xpac jump. But initial xpacs have leveling dungeons, AF gear, the uncapped tome sets, not to mention starter trial accessories followed by mid-tier trial weapons and normal raid gear. Is that all covered by activity level? Or none of it. Glamour still needs to exist otherwise we are doing [insert instance] only for possible orchestra roll drops.

Is it lower ilevel for the first two weeks of activities? Can you even get a full set in two weeks? Lot of question marks.

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AF gear hasn't been relevant for a few expansion it just replaces 99 dungeon gear and leveling/AF will be the same since they're precap. Uncapped tome gear is very likely gone, if they're taking out poetics and capped tomes, no reason to have uncapped tomes. They might have AF fill that role instead with a post MSQ upgrade.

For the EX and normal raid gear I'd expect they're still there the same way. The casual gear is capped tome gear, so it'll likely be better than both but it'll take a few weeks to get so farming content will still be needed to prep for savage day1.

As for the numbers I wouldn't fixate on that as the stuff they've shown could just be placeholder numbers they hadn't adjusted perfectly yet.