FFXIV Podcast Aetheryte Radio 285: Letter from the Producer Live LXXXI 

Solar bahamet isnt replacing bahamet like you kept saying. They showed bahamets job gauge and even stated the order the summons will be able to be used in...

I want to make it clear that they only ever mentioned the 8.0 thing once, and very quickly after Yoshi-P tried to be like "I kinda...blurted out 8.0 but we haven't started 7.0 yet." So I very much think he didn't mean to say that the way he did. Secondly, I don't remember him ever saying that all the good stuff would be in 7.X (which I mean...that's kinda true for every expansion since it comes out in waves...?) but anyway his comments were directed at 7.0 as a whole.

Takes on "Solar" were super interesting. It being called solar made sense to me in the context of xiv. It didnt even occur to me how some Americans/english speakers would imagine the word "solar"

Outside of Dragoon and possibly Monk, I don't see the skill in using the basic 1-2-3 rotation. Unless the boss has a miss mechanic, it's nearly impossible to screw up. However currently 3/4 of my main keybinds (Q, E & shift+E) are taken up by these basic rotation buttons, which means I'm relegating useful abilities to much less accessible keybinds. It probably has something to do with my keyboard and where my hands rest, as I hear some people actively use the F1-12 keys for abilities which blows my mind, but anything not immediately adjacent to WSAD, I have to remove my hand/fingers from the movement keys to reach. (TL:DR - Freeing up keybinds is very welcome) As shown by the healer dps rotation, people will find hitting a single button repeatedly to be boring, so I am glad they're making it an option instead of mandatory. Little confused about the Astro card discussion. Thought all cards were bonus damage cards, was just a matter of ranged vs melee? Otherwise it's just a mini-game of collect 3, which I will miss.

36:20 =( As a Paladin main, we, for the like 4th consecutive expansion, remain mainly unchanged. The new Blade spell might be an oGCD based on the things we know atm, and that changes nothing except for a new weave during burst windows, and the Atonement change is a huge nothing burger, unless the two new atonements do something novel, like if the thir grants another Divine Might. Otherwise, I'm disappointed by just a few new graphics, and nothing really changing. Usually there's at least one new thing, but it's just updated Req, Updated Atone 2 and Atone 3, and Updated Sentinel.

51:00 You guys talking about having wasted gauge space on jobs and I'm just BEGGING SE to do SOMETHING with Paladins Job Gauge. a Shield Icon that lights up in tank stance, and tracks 0-100 gauge that's only spent in 50 gauge increments on 3 defensive skills is INSANE. Literally last expansion should've put 'Sword Oath's on it for atonements. Just three light up Swords (or spheres in the simplified gauge) would have gone a long way instead of a random buff on my hotbar. Plus it harkens back to Sword Oath and Shield Oath (Now Iron Will: Tank Stance) previously being opposite stances back in like 2.0-4.0, iirc.

do you think spell speed will help?

I say this everytime i make a comment on this channel. EVERYTHING that you (especially Fusion and Aldi) express concern aboit is based soley in YOUR expectations. You create this expectations on what YOU want and when that expectation doesnt come to fruition you get upset and complain that square is doing everything wrong when they are jusy making the game they want/can with the resources they have. Am i happy with the Summoner stuff? Sure. Would i be happier if other lrimals where able to be sunmoned? Absolutely! But im not letting this skew my feelings and how im viewing this thing that we all love. Also, come on guys. It's so disingenuous when, in the same podcast btw, you complain and condemn SE for homogenization and then praise it because you like what it's doing. This game is evolving and its very much a possibility that its evolving into a thing thats just not for you. There's so much I would love to talk with Fusion about. He's sooooo jaded when it comes to this game. He sounds EXACTLY like I did when I finally quit playing Destiny 2. Focusing on negatives, making others feel shitty for liking things with the way he says things, taking things out of context and running with those because it aligns with his views and just overall being a, as rook put it a sour boy are just signs to stop playing this game.

4:30 BLU is NOT A REAL JOB CONFIRMED.

Dots do not count for kardia

good lord it’s gonna be tiring hearing ”wait until 8.0” in salty back and forth for the next three years, truly a disastrous thing for yoshi-p to slip

I agree with Fusion as a drg main why not just keep spineshatter as the gap closer thats the job identity flying thru the air lol then we lose eyes for no reason its not that damn hard to manage can we stop making everything for babies force these people to improve its not that hard for a casual to put a little effort to improve.