Final Fantasy 14 is undergoing some big changes when the next expansion, Evercold, launches next year. Not only are we getting a complete combat overhaul, but director Yoshi-P has said multiple times that certain systems as we know them will change dramatically to start respecting the player's time a little more. It's all very exciting.
However, some things remain the same, such as Final Fantasy 14 getting two new jobs to play with Evercold's release, a physical range job, and a tank job. We still don't know what the physical scope is going to be, but as promised back during the game's North American Fan Fest, we finally got our first look at the tank in action.
Final Fantasy 14's new tank action has been revealed
Of course, we got the first tease of this tank's work during North America's Fan Fest, with a classic Yoshi-P shirt hint that revealed Rhitahtyn Sas Arvina, one of the main baddies in A Realm Reborn, wielding two large shields equipped with cannons as her weapon of choice. This led many to believe that the hint on the shirt was quite literal, and that the tank would act as a gunshield or something similar, but we finally got confirmation from Yoshi-P during Berlin's Fan Fest.
In an updated trailer for Evercold shown at the show's keynote, it was revealed that the new tank action will actually have gunshields. Unfortunately, this seems to be the weapon of choice for the original character instead of the existing Scion, but it's still pretty cool to see weapons introduced so long ago finally become usable.
As for how the job will play, we know that it will be a main tank job, as it was mentioned in the previous fan fest that the tank roles are being split between main and off tanks (my feelings once again, warriors), so we know that it will be efficient to take damage and deal the damage that the enemies dish out.
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August 27, 2013
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Juvenile / Blood, Language, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Alcohol and Tobacco Use, Violence, In-Game Purchases, User Interaction
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Originally a Crystal Tools engine, but currently it is a custom engine using parts from the Luminous Engine.
