FF14 Live Letter 2016/01/29

The FF14 producers dropped some tasty tidbits about the coming 3.2 patch.

A few of the more interesting  details are below.

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Tanks:
VIT will now give battle potency, and STR will give a reduced amount.
– They basically want tank health to look like tank health (high HPs) and still be able to add some DPS.

Quests:
New beast tribe dailies. The Gnath tribe will be available to quest for

– They have a very interesting looking mount, looks like a weird mix between a dragon fly and a stone robot.

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The Inspector will return!

We will finally get some information on a missing main character.

Dungeons & Raids:
****Dungeon Queues are no longer solo only!***
New primal, not part of the Main Story though.
New solo dummy trial to see if you can kill it before a timer runs out.
New raid wing in Alexander called Midas.

PvP:

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New battleground called The Feast.
– Kill enemies to gather their coins/badges. Either have the most when time is done, or gather a set number first.
– Will use seasons to track ranking.

Misc:

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New jukebox for housing. You can earn new songs (Much like the WoW version)
A new Mentor system
– Must be earned. For battle players: Get to level 60 in healing tank AND dps. For crafting: Get to level 60 in one of the crafting For gathering: 60 in one.
– Mentors have a special dungeon queue to help newbies.
– Mentors can invite newbies to a special chat channel (to avoid RMT spammers)
Materia – No more overmelding main stat materia.
Retainers can now buy junk directly, no more running to a vendor.

 

Full details here.