Live Letters

Live Letter XLVII

Title and Release Dates

18th Nov 2018

The 47th Live Letter took place during the NA 2018 Fan Fest in Los Angeles and covers Patch 4.5 part 1. Here are screenshots and annotations from the Live Letter.

Artwork for New Dungeon - The Ghimlyt Dark

Balthier outfit reward. Balthier won't be in BUT someone else will (almost certain to be Fran)

Artwork for The Orbonne Monastery

Kyubi (9-Tails) reward for collecting all the doggies

Hydatos - Final Eureka Zone

Water-themed zone. Yoshi P mentioned that for this zone there will also be a new feature akin to a "Public Dungeon". Described to be a high difficulty content. Set for later part of 4.5.

Artwork for Hydatos - The Final Eureka Instalment

Details of new large scale content will be revealed in part 2. The new GATE is basically like a roller-coaster with you sitting in Air Force (from Sigmascape) and shooting things.

They did not reveal the new client.

World Visit

More details about the World Visit system were given at the Live Letter

It's as simple as clicking on one of the three Aetherytes and selecting the World you wish to visit. A new window will pop much like Duty Finder. Data Center has to check the congestion of the World you plan to visit.

There is no time limit for how long you can stay at the Destination World.

If you log out at the Destination World, you will still be at the Destination World when you log back in.

Finer details of the restriction:

You cannot sell on the Market Boards of Destination Worlds but you can buy from them. They hope by allowing this that the disparity in selling price across servers in the Data Center will be reduced.
They looked into making a single Market Board system for the entire Data Center but in the end it would require massive overhaul of the system from the base level.
Free Company chat still available but other Free Company features such as buffs will not be available. Recruitment and joining Free Companies from Destination Worlds also not possible.
Regular LS chats will not be available in Destination Worlds at launch but they are looking to address this.
They apologise with regards to the Eternal Bonding restriction but they promised to address this as well.
You will still receive notifications if you receive letters while you are in a Destination World.
The final 3 restrictions are imposed to maintain balance and prevent exploitation by players.

Data Center Expansion for NA and EU

Blue Mage Job Details (You will probably want to have tissues on hand)

Dead Before Birth ...

Needless to say, the majority of the reaction upon hearing that Blue Mage was designed for Solo Play in an MMORPG was not received well by many on Twitch Chat. The reception in the hall was lukewarm at best. With many hard instance restrictions in place, is the job already dead even before its launch? Many believe so.

Part of the reason for the design decision is that the Blue Mage may not have the necessary skills for party play. Yoshi P attempted to defend the design decision with an example:

"Imagine a Blue Mage in Omega M and F successfully casting Lv.5 Death. The fight will be over instantly and therefore breaking the game. This wouldn't be fun for anyone."

Though I agree with this example, I believe there could have been a way around this such as making the boss immune to such skills. I do hope come 4.5 that my skepticism over this job is proven to be unfounded or completely baseless.

The SOLO Blue Mage Instance

Weaknesses mentioned include elemental weaknesses. Apparently a lot of different content in this with each content having 3 rounds. Something about there being 25 types of these 3-round contents (I was already tuning out at this point due to feeling disappointed).

You don't need to be hit by the abilities, you just need to see it performed by the monsters to have a chance of learning it (RNG strikes again)

The spellbook won't tell you exactly what skills you can learn, but it gives you hints as to where you can learn it.

Ifrit's Eruption

Which Ifrit instance can you learn it from? All 3? Is the chance of learning higher in more difficult instance? None of these were answered.

Mighty Guard

The Tank LB-2 skill renamed to Stronghold because of this.

Based on past FF titles, I assume this is learnt from Magitek Colossus or similar mob types.

Aqua Breath?

Possibly, using the animation and prior FF titles as bases for guessing.

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