Final part of my reaction to the FFXIV ANNOUNCEMENT SHOWCASE that was streamed live on YouTube and Twitch in the early hours of the 6th February 2021. A new Expansion was revealed with a teaser trailer, a new healer job was announced, and a lot more…
This video focuses on some important-yet-kinda-dull system changes — namely the stat squish and saying goodbye to belts — before picking up again with some “comedy” from the Squeenix CEO. PLUS my reaction to the Lunar Whale 8-person mount announcement!
00:00 – Stat squish w/ reasons
15:05 – Removing Belts
20:20 – Data Center Travel announcement
23:00 – A Surprise CEO visit + PS5 beta announced
25:10 – PS5 announcement video reaction
29:00 – PS5 version free upgrade
35:30 – FanFest dates
38:30 – Lunar Whale mount reveal and reaction
40:50 – FF4 minions
42:40 – Amano artwork
45:00 – My closing thoughts on all the announcements
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Using their example numbers, the difference between 51-80 now and 51-90, is 30%
I'm happy the belts are going the way of the dodo. They served no purpose. 😀
You are sooo handsome! And have a beautiful smile
how we gonna be able to buy the whale? mogstation? didn’t even seen a game festival in my life
This means we need a Cecil minion drop to come out of moon dungeon or trial.
Don't know if you looked at the live letter at all, but in it Yoshi P was wearing a new shirt with a grim reaper on it, and I think it definitely points to possibly the new melee class being some kind of scythe using class. And I think I remember seeing that he commented at some point that currently dragoon is in a unique place, and I think he maybe mentioned armor but if not then that's what I'm guessing he was referring to, which would mean they'd use maiming armor, aka the dps heavy armor.
40:00 Inb4 people are able to make "Come in my mouth!" jokes about the mount. Ya'know, since everyone sits inside the whales belly when riding.
Zenos as an antagonist excites me a lot…he's like my own personal sephirot also there seem to be a lot of secrets behind him like how come he had the dreams since he can remember. This means he had these dreams before he artificially imbued himself with the echo. I feel he's been experimented on before. maybe an attempt by emet to recreate an ancient without the rejoining…there's mysteries around zenos that make him compelling and singleminded enemies are nice. I also feel that there will be very little actual garlemald stuff…yes it is a zone but it seems to have already been decemated…there will be no empire to fight anymore.
Yoshi p has said he wants to move ffxiv to a new engine entirely, it’s just such a big task that they can’t do it yet.
Just so you know, there is a different stat curve from 1 to 50 than 51 to 60. This is very apparant when you go into the first solo instance in Heavensward, and enemies are either easily beaten in it or do very little damage to you. (The "Open world" copy enemies like the ice versions of those plant things, or the birds and bombs.) These enemies were actually made with the old 2.x stat curve in mind, but the stat curve for 51+ was changed mid-development, obviously.
Thank you for uploading the video, I'm happy to have a place to watch it. But when you talk over the presenters and aren't adding anything of value it's frustrating since I'm trying to listen to them. It makes me not subscribe.
I do not mind the Stats Squish but, what scare me about the stats squish is gear losing stats and so becoming less appealing to farm or craft as you level up making the leveling process and character progression less interesting and or fun, its what happen in World of Warcraft and its what I expect happening here too, if they only touch stats you gain every job level then it will be 100% fine, if they touch gear stats too then there will be MASSIVE issues.