[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Insaniac]

I wonder how the people that spent weeks animating these WSs feel about the fact that most of them will never be used.

[Sparthos]

Wow a nerf on Realmrazer? Really?

Jeez SE, why did you bother animating these new WS when you're gonna cut them all off the knees before they even go live? Who the hell cares about Hexa Strike? Any self-respecting WHM DD was going to upgrade to Realmrazer anyway.

There was no balancing issue here.

[Byrth]

On the test server, in the Weapon Skills merit category, the heading above the WSs is "Group 1." If "Group 2" is something inventive that allows weaponskill power-ups (like merit points that give a critical hit rate bonus to the WSs), then these could end up being the most powerful weaponskills in the game still.

[Amador]

Please don't shoot the messenger. I think the poor Moogles already have to deal with the dev team trying to eat their poms. I imagine their salary doesn't even include Kupo Nuts!



I was hoping you'd accept my explanation, but I suppose being a White Mage Tarutaru isn't enough... I'd have to have the onion haircut too.



Non-White Mages? But if the issue is that White Mage should get a better weapon skill... perhaps they should buff Hexa Strike for White Mages at higher skill levles or give White Mages another WS learned at a higher skill while keeping Realmrazer the same...

I would expect the messengers to also have a reply button that goes to the dev teams that says: You're doing it wrong.

At the very least have some degree of insight, to say "Hey, this is going to piss of the community bro. You really want these NW's to be comparable to level 58-67 crap? Wut?

[Greatguardian]

I wonder how the people that spent weeks animating these WSs feel about the fact that most of them will never be used.

This is my biggest concern.

Someone obviously put a lot of time and heart into these skills. It shows. They're gorgeous.

Why spoil all of that hard work by making the WS weak?

[Deadvinta]

Seriously, can we have the Devs take about five minutes from developing to read this thread themselves? Whatever the moogles are telling them, they aren't getting the message (at no fault of your own, guys, I promise).

[Greatguardian]

Seriously, can we have the Devs take about five minutes from developing to read this thread themselves? Whatever the moogles are telling them, they aren't getting the message (at no fault of your own, guys, I promise).

Without meaning any disrespect to them, I highly doubt the Devs are able to read English at a high enough level (especially when including internet slang and colloquialisms) for them to actually read anything in the English forums firsthand.

English is taught in schools in Japan, but there's a reason even most JP players prefer to stay in their own language. There's a huge gap between knowing enough to pass an exam and being able to communicate with English speaking people regularly. Even the Zam/Elmer interviews are done in bilingual settings.

[SpankWustler]

Whatever the moogles are telling them, they aren't getting the message (at no fault of your own, guys, I promise).

In order to communicate fully with the FFXI development team, someone would need to think like the development team.

Imagine a world where up is down. Is down up? No. Down is an egg sandwich. Except when it's not. Sometimes down is a bittersweet memory of a pet turtle you had when you were seven. Sometimes down isn't down, as in the towards-the-center-of-the-earth down, just the word "down" but it actually means "left". Left is usually an anteater.

Even having the mindset down, this individual would need to learn a written language composed entirely of crude drawings of people being crushed by large kitchen appliances. Mostly stoves, for some reason. If not speak, the individual would at least need to understand a spoken language composed entirely of guttural noises. Every one of which imitates the passing of flatus.

No language that currently existed when FFXI was created could convey some of the development team's ideas properly and they had to make a new one, you see.

[Olor]

seriously?



#facepalm

[Amador]

All of this nonsense about thinking like the dev team or not is simply that. Nonsense.

They want us to test and evaluate their product the answer is: No, your current idea and direction this REALLY COOL PRESENTATION, is starting to suck. Therefore we do not like your product, please revise your mistake.

Please do not gimp the Club WS, or any other WS for that matter. Please focus on MAKING THEM BETTER SO THAT WE CAN USE THEM <--- This. Auto-Translate Can I have It?

I mean really devs, messengers, random moogles. Why can't you simply send these ideas in a nice little Microsoft Outlook message that says: Guys, the community really hates this. Can you reevaluate? We need something to make them not rage right now.

What you did was you showed us a really cool product, you made us think wow that'll be hot and amazing. We "tested" it, down to a mathematical level and found that they suck. BUT WE HAVE ASKED YOU TO MAKE IT BETTER BECAUSE WE LIKE IT.

Your response: No we need to make it weaker! Think of poor Hexa Strike! <-- Really sit down and evaluate what you're doing here. It's really not right. You are wrong. Please fix it, not break it further to the point where your next year census says no one merited that WS.

We want to like your product, help us like it more. So you can have our Clink-Clink.