Final Fantasy News

Warrior

• Benefits from using different weapons
  
• Adding different incentives to using other subjobs
  
• New ability: Axe throwing
  

Monk

• Change from being a straight melee fighter
  
• New ability: HP boost to another party member
  

White Mage

• Bring advantage back to white mage for healing parties
  
• Give HP/MP to other members of the party
  
• Benediction: Remove all negative status
  

Black Mage

• Deterring manaburning, advantages to single BLM in party
  
• New spells for BLM
  

Red Mage

• New spells for RDM
  

Thief

• Give abilities to other party members
  
• Changes to Stealing, other than items possible?
  
• Change to Perfect Dodge: In battle, extra damage to monster
  

Paladin

• Changes to PLD to return them to main tank in party
  
• New ability: Auto-refresh
  
• Higher shield percentage
  
• TP gain for shield hit
  

Dark Knight

• Preference to DRK using Sycthes
  
• More reason to use the absorb spells
  

Beastmaster

• Complaints about the anti-MPK patch
  
• Changes to assist with this
  

Bard

• Changes to occasionally used songs to increase them
  
• New song: low level hastega
  

Ranger

• Changes to ranger in regards to damage/distance ratio
  
• Fix to sharpshot: Accuracy will not be affected by distance
  
• Number of types of arrows into quivers increased
  

Samurai

• Different uses of TP during battle
  
• New ability: Decrease the enemy TP when hit
  

Ninja

• While Ninja is strong, no changes to Ninja yet
  

Dragoon

• Due to recent changes, no changes are planned for Dragoon

Summoner

• Would like avatars out longer, so more MP
  
• Other benefits for avatars being out
  
• Changes to duration and power determined purely by summoning skill
  
• Increase the number of blood pacts
  
• New avatars: no plans for bahamut, but others are being looked into
  

Blue Mage

• Blue Mage can only learn when it’s the main job
  
• To acquire a new spell, you have to defeat the monster with that spell
  
• The timing you learn a spell depends on your level
  
• Adding more spells with future patches after initial burst
  
• Spells must be set before they can be used
  
• Spells will have a set point, and more setup points per level
  
• Limit of spells set increases with level
  
• Using melee Blue magic spells in skillchains
  
• Using magic Blue magic spells in magic bursts
  

Corsair

• Main ability: Cards drawn to control different effects
  
• When you use the same ability, the card count is added to the past call
  
• Maximum effect at XI; at XII, the spell busts and loses effect
  
• Types of effects depend on your party makeup.
  
• Card Shot: use one of eight types of cards with your hexagon, it will change your attack into a magic attack
  
• Strengthen negative status on monsters
  
• Ability to lower party recast times
  

Q: Can you tell us how Treasure Hunter works?

A: Nothing to do with the final kill, as long as the thief is in the party.

Q: Is Utsusumi: San or other ninjitsu spells going to be added?

A: It’s on the table, but no decision yet.

A: Will there be weapon skills for throwing?

Q: We’ll take that idea back to Japan.

Q: Will there be changes to paladin to use other subjobs than WAR?

A: We would like to change it so there will be more subjob options for every class.

Q: Wyvern armor?

A: We never thought of that, and I’m writing it down right now.

Q: will the new jobs have aoe abilities, and will aoe abilites be added to SAM, DRG, and NIN?

A: There are a lot of blue magic spells that are AoE.
No plans for Corsair to have AoE abilities -
We’re going to take the AoE ability ideas back with us.

Q: Are there plans to keep your outpost teleporting if you change nation allegiance and return?

A: We will consider changing that if enough people are upset about it.

Q: What kind of Enmity effect would the HP/MP ability have on the WHM?

A: Because it is a battle action, some hate will be transferred to the WHM, but not enough to deter the ability’s usage.

Q: Does CHR affect Provoke?

A: No.

Q: Can there be an ability for refreshga for Summoner?

A: We will consider it.

Q: Will it be considered to allow to join Jeuno as a nation?

A: There are no plans currently to allow you to join Jeuno as a nation, but we have some surprises planned in the expansion.

Q: Why is Invincible not really invincible (magic still hurts)?

A: We have no plans to change it, because invincible was always against melee attacks.

Q: Can the PLD have HP/MP draining abilities?

A: Because the DRK has drain/asipr, the PLD can’t have it.