Stormblood Squee Week Extra: SAM and RDM Thoughts

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So we’ve had quite a few days to gnaw on the neck of the last Live Letter and suck out all of the infojuices from it. Translations of Japanese tooltips have been made, videos created, and threads on Reddit springing like horny flowers in early Spring.

Also, this dummy’s entire week of blog posts about the whole thing.

So, in the interest of said information, as well as to close out the dummy’s blogs for Stormblood Squee Week Extra, I wanted to cobble together my impressions of the new Samurai (SAM) and Red Mage (RDM) Jobs arriving with the expansion.

Stormblood Squee Week Extra: Ready to Jump

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In my last post, I mentioned that I was in love with the new Paladin moves. One in particular, Passage of Arms, has me excited simply because it’s something I see my character doing. She’s the kind of person who would leap in front of people if it means they wouldn’t come to harm.

And I know I keep repeating myself, but come on. Pretty wings. Come ON.

Getting to that point, though, requires that I muddle through another six levels of mindless grinding. I don’t want to do that. Thankfully, I won’t have to with the addition of Jump Potions, and I couldn’t be happier. Allow me to explain why.

Stormblood Squee Week Extra: Holy Crap, Live Letter!

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Yep, because nobody asked for it but because it’s very much fresh on my mind, I’m revisiting Stormblood Squee Week for the second time! Monday the 22nd had an absolutely humongous Live Letter from producer Naoki Yoshida and I have a great many thoughts about what was presented.

So for the first Squee Week Part Deux post, I wanted to cover all of the big reveals in general and offer my opinion on them.

Starting with this gorgeous ability HOLY CRAP LOOK AT IT.

Stormblood Squee Week: Hopes for the Stormblood MSQ

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SPOILER WARNING: This post will absolutely be talking about plot points from questlines that are recent as of this writing, February 23rd. Ye be warned!

For this entry, I decided to gush over, cross my fingers for, and otherwise wiggle excitedly about the upcoming story for the Main Scenario Quest of the Stormblood expansion. While MMO narratives are pretty throwaway on many occasions, Final Fantasy XIV is one of the few games that has a fun story. Not a particularly deep one, and sometimes a disappointing one, but a fun story nonetheless.

Excluding Minfilia. She’s a mistake.

Stormblood Squee Week: My Personal Combat Refresh

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With the arrival of Stormblood to Final Fantasy XIV, we’re also going to be seeing a “combat refresh” – a rebalancing of skills for every class in the game, with apparent special attention being paid to the existing tank and healer classes.

According to the information I’ve seen, the team is shooting for classes to have a similar number of skills available to them even though we’re seeing a level cap raise from 60 to 70. This is meant to ease the complexity of certain jobs while also removing useless skills. And boy howdy, are there some useless skills.

I’m lookin’ at you, Chevy Noir.

So for this entry, I’d like to talk about what I’d like to see from this new combat refresh and what skills I’d like to see edited or culled entirely.

Stormblood Squee Week: A Recap of Bold, Stupid Predictions for Final Fantasy XIV

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SPOILER ALERT: The following post is going to touch on topics associated with the MSQ of patch 3.5, which is recent as of this post’s creation, Feb 19th. If you’ve not finished that content, you might not want to read on.

So back in June of last year, I made a blog post offering up my thoughts on what would be coming for the next expansion of Final Fantasy XIV. We now stand near the end of the final Fanfest, and I thought it’d be fun to run back to that post and see where I went horribly wrong while salvaging the thoughts that were nearly close to the mark.

Like a Lalafell Archer, my aim is a bit short.