Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Keynote Presentation

14 Oct 2016
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  • 4.o Announced! New expansion: “Stormblood”
  • Check out the trailer here:

 

  •  Warrior of light moves to Monk for 4.0 from Dragoon!
  • New Hamlet- Rhalger’s Reach- Area in the trailer
    • HQ of Ala Mhigo’s Resistance.
    • 4.0 story starts here.

(Koji needs to relax)

  • 4.0 features
    • NEW JOBS.
      • SCARLET WITCH SHIRT- Red Mage?!
    • Level Cap 60->70.
      • New actions, BUT NEW BATTLE SYSTEM
      • SKILL SYSTEM OVERHAUL.
        • Regrouping skills to be shared by roles instead of jobs.
          • Then from those shared actions, you choose what you want.
      • Reassessment of unused/ineffective actions.
        • Slim actions down, make it easier to get into.
        • Rehauling the UI and creating icons for each job.
          • Want each job to be more than just looking at timers.
      • New areas Duh- Same size if not bigger than 3.0.
      • All new Primals.
        • Many Many new primals.
      • Challenging New Dungeons.
      • High End Raids.
        • 3 levels of Raid- Story, Normal, Savage.
        • Make it feel like a very final fantasy esque raid.
      • New Alliance Raids.
        • Waiting until Tokyo for news.
      • Forbidden Land Eureka.
        • Exploration, Unique to Stormblood- own area.
        • 72 Hour HNMs.
        • High End Weapons Set Here For Upgrading?
      • New Gear and Recipes (duh).
      • Item Inventory Expansion.
        • Armory Chest AND Bag.
        • Not an Easy Fix- Server infrastructure is delicate balance.
          • Increase as much as humanly possible.
        • Might split expansion in two parts- more details in letter from producers
      • Fourth Residential Area.
        • Won’t tell us where- Ishgard? Ala Mhigo? Directly related to the main storyline.
        • Ready with launch of 4.0.
      • In game Footage.
        • Lots of height- will there be flight in 4.0?
        • Castrums! Metal towers! With flags!
        • Big Wall shown splits Ala Mhigo and Black Shroud.
        • Garlean Architecture is going to be more established since its been there for 20 years.
        • More info at letter from producer live and upcoming FanFest.
        • All 4.0 areas accessible by flying mounts, but you gotta get the aetherial attunement- easier than finding Moogles.
      • Thats all for Stormblood info.
        • Just an introduction.
        • From now until Early Summer, 2 more FanFests!
      • Two more special announcements that will accompany.
        • Changes to Windows Minimum requirements.
          • Current specs geared towards core 2 duo support– can’t buy anymore.
          • Need 64 bit OS- will continue to support 32 but they really really want you to upgrade.
        • End of PS3 Support.
          • Upgrade Campaign to PS4.
            • Totally Free.
          • The minute Stormblood launches, PS3 will no longer work.
      • Exactly one hour.
        • Just beginning of fanfest.
        • Special Stormblood artwork from Amano.
      • Dev Team comes out!