[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Luvbunny]

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They read the JP forums. They don't give a rats ass what we think, or haven't you been paying attention?
It is not "like" they don't listen to you, it is that they don't listen to you. The thread on beast pets where they ignored the NAs and went with the JP's choices should have hammered that point home already.

Voicing our opinion with our wallet is the only way they will LISTEN to the NA market needs and opinions. Otherwise they will keep ignoring us - with the gaming market becoming more and more global and competition is getting fierce - this is something that they cannot sit idle on their laurels. They must take actions to win their paying clients - and stop acting like they know everything and we just have to take it as it is.

[Atomic_Skull]

Also, I'm just gonna throw this out there; if you want to make any of the ws a poor choice, nerf Tachi: Shoha. Sam doesn't need ANOTHER reason tacked on to the always growing list of why it's too strong. (seriously camate, tell the devs that samurai is just way to strong compared to the other jobs when you're not looking at equally geared relic/mythic/empyrean weapon holders who got insanely lucky with the horribad voidwatch drop system)

This one isn't going to change because it's a cultural thing.

Voicing our opinion with our wallet is the only way they will LISTEN to the NA market needs and opinions. Otherwise they will keep ignoring us - with the gaming market becoming more and more global and competition is getting fierce - this is something that they cannot sit idle on their laurels. They must take actions to win their paying clients - and stop acting like they know everything and we just have to take it as it is.

Problem is that a lot of what we want is mutually exclusive to what the JPs want. So they have to choose one or the other. And because most of FFXI's subscribers are in japan they will go with what the JPs want.

Now if this game actually had a chance at becoming big internationally maybe it would make sense for them to pay more attention to us, but at this point in the game's life it doesn't.

[Unctgtg]

Did i just hear all the dark knights /sigh at once and then die?

Nope cause I'll still be using my Catastrophe WS.

[Siiri]

This one isn't going to change because it's a cultural thing.



Problem is that a lot of what we want is mutually exclusive to what the JPs want. So they have to choose one or the other. And because most of FFXI's subscribers are in japan they will go with what the JPs want.

Now if this game actually had a chance at becoming big internationally maybe it would make sense for them to pay more attention to us, but at this point in the game's life it doesn't.

Do the Japanese DRKs really want a weapon skill that returns magic over a high damage ws?

[FrankReynolds]

Do the Japanese DRKs really want a weapon skill that returns magic over a high damage ws?

I feel like it would be extremely racist to assume that the JP player base is that crazy. Unless they know something that we don't about SEs plans for Dark Knight magic.

[Hextitan]

We have no reason to believe the JPN player base is any happier about this Entropy update, or DRK in general. SE doesn't listen to anyone most of the time which is ironic considering they created this forum specifically for feedback.

[Selzak]

Probably. the MP recovery is nice, but they don't really give a rats behind how much it gives back. All they want is more damage. DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE. IM A DARK KNIGHT I KILL THINGS RAAAWR

Or something to do with the MP that we get back. Blizzard III has a recast, you know!

[Theytak]

I can't believe that the devs think giving WS an attack penalty is a good idea in anyway...

[Chriscoffey]

I can't believe that the devs think giving WS an attack penalty is a good idea in anyway...

So far they didn't with Tachi:Awesome for Sam with GK. never fails lol

[Alhanelem]

That's awesome, but that still doesn't justify the 3 ws per character limit

There is no "3 WS per character" limit. You can get more if you don't maximize the mods (even at level 1, they still have some stat modifier- 32% including the base)

You can't be the best at everything. The WHOLE FARKING POINT of the merit system is speccing your character so that one person who plays MNK (example) is different from another person who plays MNK in more ways than gear.
People ask for specizlization options.
SE grants specialization options.
People subesequently complain they can't upgrade everything.
SE removes specialization options?
Profit?

FFXI's character customization is very limited compared to many MMOs. What you're asking for is basically the same as people in WoW asking to be able to max out all three Talent trees. They were created that way for a reason: to give you choices to make.

HOWEVER: I would not be against them making it less difficult to change no-longer-wanted merits- for instance, giving back half the merits spent (full refund for 1 point merits) and freely reallocating, or fully refunding merits and placing a cooldown on merit removals.