- They said DNC AF2 and merit points will be unveiled at the Fan Fes in America. (someone asked in thread but "Relic" means AF2 and IIRC, it's the way the game refers to AF2). They will be obtained in Dynamis.
- Town moogle shield is a 25%+ speed effect (like Mazurka) on PT members when used in town and when used in the field, it doubles the duration of food. But sometimes (low chance they said) it '"misses" and you get changed into a moogle and you can't do anything which is the "moogle's trick". I wonder if the effect lasts long?
- They showed a video of Shantotto in Dissidia. She looked more girly and quite pretty. She had a command menu that opened with ancient magic (I think I saw freeze and burst in a glimpse) and the menu's layout/color looked a lot like the FFXI menu. The chairman said "you can play that while waiting to enter Nyzul" (because Nyzul is terribly crowded at JP hours) which made everyone laugh.
- Glory crown, it improves sanction effect. (I don't think they said the effect was limited to Besieged, IIRC they just mentioned besieged to explain about the number of times the city is defended.) This caps at 8 degrees.
- They said finishing the Serpent general quests will give access to an event called mercinary something, which sounds like one they had in a previous festival (or TGS?).
- SMN, they said they'd already decided which new avatar(s) will be added but they need to do some more testings because the model(s) are (is?) big (?) and there may be issues with displaying so it will take some time.
- They will "do something" about WHM and BST. WHM they will add more abilities as it has few abilities in the first place, or something.
- One of the SCH merits was said to be "like a short version of the 2H abi" like someone commented here. (I don't remember the name...)
- When talking about banned accounts, they said the accounts banned for this last time were 328k accounts and that they fished up an equivalent of 49 Lu Shang rods.
- They said they may increase mannequin storage.
- About Tidal talisman, they said the first design they'd come up with was very pretty and looked unacceptable as a lvl 1 gear. So they had the graphic person rework it to make it "boring".
- The wedding tuxedos will be obtained in the same way as the dresses, 50000 gil when applying for weddings. I wonder if already married characters can still get it?
- The guy writing those 3 new stories came on stage, and he mentioned he wanted to put a conclusion to the story of Aldo and the girl in the opening movie. Hmm... sounds interesting.
- We picked the wrong chocobo for the race! The red one was too strong! It avoided "our" chocobo's pepper cookie. Oh well
wish they'd have made it so everyone gets something.
- The battlefield thing on stage was pretty interesting! I regretted we didn't win, although it must've been terrible to be watched by everyone like this.
But it was lame 3 machines crashed (or game closed or something? screens went back to desktop) and some people didn't get to play much because they couldn't get them back on, I felt sorry for them. Some people played on keyboards and some on the official controllers.
Then they asked the players for their impressions. The only woman in the first group (who I think had the hume WHM with the Nyzul relic/KraClub and that DD mail) said it was fun for her to hit monsters as she was always playing backrow jobs. A guy said he was playing a BLM for the first time ever. Another said he felt very nervous because everyone was watching them play and their "player skill" would be judged. All the characters had pretty good gear (Askar, Morrigan...) and they were provided with some items like high-reraiser. On the second round, the hume WHM died and nobody was nice enough to thow a raise
The monsters all had different conditions and specific reactions which they explained more or less, the bombs would self-destruct when provoked for example. Some died with just one hit (on crit?). But it was a bit messy and it was hard to read the log from where we were.
