Final Coil of Bahamut will accessible through DF in 2.55. (Will have no Echo immediately but small patches after 2.55 will include Echo) No mechanic nerfs mentioned. More information will come later.
World of Darkness gear restriction will be removed and Encrypted Tomestone added. (Forget if it meant to weekly or actual dungeon)
Patch 2.55 date is Tuesday March 31st, 2015.
Official Source: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/224701-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Special-Edition-Digest?p=2836412#post2836412
Some more from a Famitsu Interview (via reddit):
3.0 was scheduled for May 18th. Stuff happened.
Mac specs will be released shortly.
The full trailer will be released after 2.55 because there are scenes in there that directly reveal what happens in the MSQ. There will be flashbacks and stuff that'll explain why our hero has such a long and defeated look in the beginning of the trailer.
They're renting an entire theatre to premiere the trailer on release. Some lucky fans will be invited. April PLL will be held there.
Benchmark video was 13 minutes long. NQ Hiroshi managed to cut it down to 9 minutes for our sanity.
Aura character creation is extremely detailed, horn types, colouring, eyes. The facial patterns are the most detailed of the current available races. Benchmark will not contain all options available because they're intending to add as much as possible before the release date. But you can save your character detail and immediately continue from it on official release.
Horns will be visible even when wearing full helms. A lot of effort was put into making sure the horns don't clip with gear. All gear from 2.2 onwards was created on Aura horns in mind.
Some famous FF character(s) will appear in Ishgard.
Cid and other similar key-NPCs will move to Ishgard. Probably Roena too seeing as how she already has a monopoly in Eorzea.
Gerolt will moving somewhere in his quest to craft the ultimate kettle.
Villages and outposts in Ishgard will use names from 1.0. One of those villages survive on Chocobo hunting.
The 7 heavenly dragons will be key to the Ishgard quest. Nizbeck, Bahamut, Tiamat, and more. Bahamut's story will how he was summoned and captured will also be revealed.
And Omega too.
New jobs
When working with buffs, they wanted to avoid the situation like if FFXI where haste was overpowered, so skill/spellspeed has been mostly insignificant in the 2.x series. They will be going through a huge change in 3.0. DoTs will be directly influenced by SS.
Dark knight lives on MP. They considered using HP as resource, but thought it would be too dangerous for raids, and so went with MP instead. You'll use MP to cast a darkness buff that drapes you with a darkness aura. Playstyle will revolve around maintaing that aura, using it for defence or damage.
There is level above darkness that has stronger actions and skills. It's a new style of tanking that's probably never before seen. You might want to stock up on PIE materia.
Astrologists can switch between a heal stance or a barrier stance. It's actually a bit too strong so there'll be restrictions on how often you can switch stances, a delay of some kind. Spells remain the same, their affects just change dependong on stance so it's not like you'll need to juggle 2x more skills than other classes.
Names might change, but currently they're Tsukiyomi (moon reader) and Hoshiyomi (star reader).
You draw cards to buff your team. You can choose to use the card immediately, or hold and use it together with the next card. Astrologists will probably be a very busy and involving job, requiring you to think fast on your feet.
Machinists, when using attachments on their rifles will become something akin to a canon. There'll be a charging animation/effect, the longer it is, the more powerful the attack is. (something like Rockman's charge shot) Moving resets the charge.
Attaching attachments is instant. If you need to be constantly on the move, don't use attachments.
Gun actions require a stacking gunpowder(or ammo) buff. Learning when to reload will be an important skill.
Limit breaks
Dragoon's new LB3 will be revealed during today's PLL.
Current LB3s will be reassigned to their respective jobs.
Astrologist's LB3 will be Celestial Stasis (星天停止) like in FFT, but since this is an MMO, they can't actually stop time for real. It'll seem like time stopped and suddenly everyone is at full health. It's actually quite reckless the way it was implement. So, look forward to it.
Items, ILs, Alexander
AF2 is based on Amano's sketches. They tried to be as faithful to his original designs as possible.
The IL gear between each season (patch) will be wider than before. Of course, Alexander Hard will contain the strongest gear available, but there'll now be more in-between options available.
New daily quests beginning in either 3.05 or 3.1.
The fat chocobo might fly.
Maybe.
The Zodiac weapon quest, or more accurately, a weapon that grows together with you will continue in 3.1. The overall concept is still the same, time in exchange for strength. There might be some changes, those will be revealed in time.
Snowboarding
The PR team has ordered Yoshida not to say anything about upcoming Gold Saucer events, so this is a What Would Yoshida Do if snowboarding was implemented in Gold Saucer.
You would start by carving your board out of a block of wood. You could then decide on camber, locker, edges, thickness, whether it's a trick board or an aspen board.
Famitsu: Then you'll need a whole range of courses like half pipes or aspens wouldn't you?
Yoshida: Well if there weren't then there'd be no point in making your own board.
FYI, Yoshida is from Hokkaido.
Crafting
The concept of FFXIV's armoury system is so you can be and do everything with just one character. Along the way, crafting became a little too hardcore. First, it started requiring everything to be HQ or bust. Then you it started requiring you to max-meld every piece of gear, and eventually you needed to do it for all jobs. What started as 'can be anything' twisted into 'must do everything'. While it may have been enjoyable for the really hardcore who enjoy this kind of gameplay, it pushs away the people who just want to do a simple bit of crafting now and then. With the Meister and scripts system, we're trying to get back to our core philosophy.
Same problem with Gathering, everyone ended up gathering the same thing, creating an oversupply thus making it difficult to create useful craftables for battle. In order to give more meaning to craftable gear/items and implment the next materia system, we need to control the supply of items and create differentiation between each gatherer.
It's probably terrible balance-wise to have dungeon drops always be the strongest so we're trying to change that.
With the new system, once you're at 60, you can then become an apprentise to each respective guilds' guildmaster. You'll gain new skills and recipes by becoming a meister/specialist. You can have more than one trademeister but there'll be a delay before you're allowed to switch.
The new crafter scripts, temporarily called red and blue chips. You collect them by polishing up and raising the quality, in terms other than NQ/HQ, of some items.
For gatherers, each region will have something like folktales, their own lores and stories. You won't be able to see the new nodes unless you've already heard of these tales. These are were scripts will come in. Besides that there are also talismans that you can use to reveal these nodes.
Company crafts
Split into 2 parts, House and Airships.
House is where you get to build and design your own house. As the patches come long, you can design your company house into something like a blacksmith shop if you wish. There will also be something similar to glamour for company housing, so that you can switch designs as you wish.
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