I come with more leaked alpha images and the game manual for alpha. Gotta love how alpha testing goes on for a month in Japan without any major leaks, but two days after worldwide alpha testing opens we get the freaking game manual.

Interesting notes from the manual: tab now cycles exclusively through enemies, and Shift+F allows for focus targeting (phenomenal for cooperative efforts). It also includes some good insights into the class-specific gear sets that we can set as well as a look into the new gathering interface (particularly relevant to my interests).

Somewhat out of context, but given the accelerated rate at which we are receiving news about the game (something that was promised by Square Enix after the servers shut down on the 11th), might it be good to have a single thread to dump these sort of incremental updates? I'd feel awfully silly creating a new thread every time a new video from the alpha (or eventually beta) or group of images showed up. Just a thought.

Edit: Also I can't say it enough. This UI is absolutely GORGEOUS.