Yoshida had a new Heavensward presentation for his trip to PAX East. While a lot of the discussed topics were covering already announced information. There was still several new pieces of information that came out of it.
- A new benchmark with a 9 minute long video and character creation to try out the Au Ra will be available next month.
- The female Au Ra specifically have a varied amount of customization.
- Yoshida specifically said that the female could look like as she does in the released pictures or most like a Succubus.
- The turret the Machinist uses can buff the party or debuff the enemy.
- He went over how they come to decide on a new job and the work that goes into it
- It takes a year to make a new job.
- The combat team doesn't want to do 3 new jobs like with the expansion ever again.
- Don't know if this hints that future expansions will see fewer new jobs.
- The Astrologian weapon went through a lot of ideas before settling on the star globe.
- One design idea had it look very similar to a duel deck from the Yugioh series.
- The Dark Knight will use MP heavily for their actions.
- The Mac port will come with the expansion release.
- There will be three version of the expansion release.
- A collector's edition.
- Standard edition.
- Bundled edition.
- The original release window for the expansion apparently was in May.
- Now is June 23rd with an early access on the 19th.
- There is a new specialist system coming for the crafters that was teased, but not explained in more detail.
- All jobs, crafters and gathers will get new AF gear, commonly referred to as AF2 at 60.
The full video of everything can be seen here.
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