Nantes Gamewatch interviewFollow

Great interview with lots of HW information, with a seemingly decent translation by a user on the OFs.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/235694-Nantes-Gamewatch-interview-summary

Highlights:
- Leveling from 50-60 will take as long as 1-50
- Jobs learn a new skill every two levels
- Hard-mode Alexander raids will factor in healer DPS
- There will be more complex FATEs, similar to the FATE chain in South Shroud
- The starting base-level endgame gear will be i170 (I think???)
- Gear from HM Alexander will be stronger than story-mode Alexander gear (I like this, because hardcore raiders need that mountain to stand on)
- Casual dungeons will remain easy, but will include some mechanics from coil

Lots of other stuff there... those are just things that jumped out at me.

Inc dungeon bosses that divebomb you.

The most interesting part of that interview was when they mention that they are planning a new kind of content where people will be able to feel lost. The rest is just more of the same which I personally already know I don't enjoy, but this actually sounds interesting even for someone like me. I hope it is linked to the "go as deep as you can into the dungeon and you can't save" that Yoshi has talked about before, like a real type of dungeon crawl would be awesome.

Edited, May 27th 2015 4:35pm by Belcrono

Edited, May 27th 2015 4:39pm by Belcrono

That's too hard for the casual playerbase. He's talking about mechanics like Turn 1 light floors or Turn 6 add control. Nothing that takes coordination or else the casuals would be doing coil ;p

(Since he said himself he did it to try to get people interested in coil that weren't doing coil.)

Then again, Yoshida says a lot of things.