Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

I was watching this stream yesterday before going to bed and he was talking with Athas about the video being 2hours long, but how it's very tank centric and he didn't feel like commenting on the other classes because he's not "qualified" or whatever(all the while trying to carry a pub savage practice run with his SAM), but yeah I expect a bunch of overreactions. Still if someone has full tank tooltips, it probably should be him. His bias towards tank classes is a bit the contrary of mine though, so not sure how informative it'll be when I'm trying to learn about PLD new shit and he focuses on WAR and GNB(probably).

Yeah, the reddit mods were also invited, and you can count on the rabid fans to just scour through the 20hours of videos Mr Happy is going to put up, extract every single tooltip and make a big collage for each class on reddit, like they did with the abilities from the live letter.

I don't really intend on watching most of these guys stuff either, I don't really care for any of them(or any streamer really, and I've basically never used youtube other than to search for specific videos or as a direct link).

By the end of the day, we should know pretty much everything there is to know(although some skills will maybe be missing cause they weren't finished in that build, and some skills will most definitely be adjusted because the build they played wasn't final), without having to watch anything.

Playlist of all the class videos from Larryzaur, they only a few minutes short and go quickly over the changes, seems like good summaries if you don't care about the pure details.

Yeah I didn't think they'd make the aoes free too, I assumed there would be some sort of mp cost and you'd have to use generic regen abilities to aoe, but basically now you can always aoe for free AND they gave a ton of new aoes. Also on melee classes the new/old aoes refresh your buffs, so you don't get fucked. NIN new aoe refreshes Huton, SAM normal aoes refresh both Shifu and Jinpu, the new MNK aoe refreshes Twin Snakes etc.

Another thing I hadn't noticed in the DNC preview, Technical Steps is a party buff, not just a dance partner buff. That means every 2mins, not only do you get the 1500potency nuke(with a 7secs cast time mind you), you also get 5% damage to the whole party AND the whole party generates Esprit gauge for you with their weapon skills, so you're gonna be spamming that Esprit dump which apparently does 500potency a GCD(and is also aoe), similar to Brotherhood spam on MNK.

The PLD changes look neat. Instant cast spells when you Requiescat and a bunch of ways to get mp back too, 6s block sheltron, can finally stance dance without a penalty like before, has a charge, aoe melee combo AND aoe spell combo, going to be so smooth to play now and it doesn't seem they removed the utility. I'll see if there's a full detailed list of traits and stuff but it looks like you'll still be able to spam Clemency, then dump Sword Oath stacks to get mp back and spam it some more, like you can currently on live(maybe even better), so that's great I was scared you'd only be able to heal like once every 30secs or whatever.

Video of the lvl 72 dungeon run with Trusts. Spoilers on the available characters for people who aren't done with the current story. They look a lot smarter, and apparently there isn't commands anymore like Squadrons have, but for example the bosses seemed to target them with shit, and they actually move to avoid the stuff rather than just stand in it like retards. Also confirms you can do full dungeons with them, some people assumed they'd only be for overworld quests because of what Yoshida said in an interview. It's unclear however if you can use trusts all the way to 80, but probably, just not for 80 content obviously, and I assume the 8man content(story mode primals) will require players still.


Also if you don't like videos, written impressions+all tooltips at Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Media Tour Overview which is the wiki.