[dev1049] New weapon skills

[FrankReynolds]

It clearly shows that the animator of the WS put alot of detail into his craft only to have it immediately become worthless as many of these skills will never see the day of light thanks to his team leaders poor decision making.

There is a video on the SE youtube feed where they show how animations and cut scenes are made. It is really stupid how much time they must have spent making this bullshit.

[Zemarin]

People literally MOAN about EVERY LITTLE THING.... (My favorite Weapon doesn't do the Weapon Skill that does the most Damage) It's getting Tired. Then there's (OMG I can change jobs but I can't Min Max all of them cuz i cant get ALL the Merited WS's to FULL DAMAGE).... FFXI's NA Player Base is prolly just as bad or maybe worse than WoW's....
Oh ya and like the guy above me QQin about how their WS's aint stronger.. I guess having WS's that do "slug shot dmg" and close/open Darkness and light is just horrible. I mean for a game where WS's are meant to be Skill chained ppl are easy to cry than to understand that

2000+2000~3000 is > 2000+500~1000

[Runespider]

I don't get the big outrage? free\easy to learn weaponskills aren't as good as the ones that come attached to weapons. seems ok to me

Personally I hate that they add the most beautiful cool looking WS ever and make them crap to the point you won't even use them, make them harder to get if needbe but for christs sake make them worth using.

As it is they will be no more useful that job emotes, all that effort into new exciting content and they fluff it up making them suck.

[HimuraKenshyn]

Balance is my new 4 letter word. Next time I want to curse peeps I will just scream BALANCE you.


Instead of you got Fed bro = You got balanced bro

Get the balance out of here

Balance my life

They so balanced this game its not worth it any more

Stop feeding the troll....

[Pebe]

Maybe I shouldn't be complaining because the weaponskills I'm meriting are untouched but:

SE do you really think its fair that realmrazer < hexa now, new axe ws < rampage, Reqiuescat <= Spirits Within , etc when
Tachi Shoha > Tachi: Fudo, Blade Shun is on par with blade HI (this varies), Nothing comes close to Last Stand for marksmenship physical ws and therefore is on par with wildfire for usage, etc. I really didn't see the problem with leaving the weaponskills as they were when they were released. Was it that bad the Realmrzer beat hexa, and that whms finally had a new weaponskill to use after all these years? Or same with bsts and the new axe weaponskill. I mean come on, SE. Even the polearm weaponskill has it use in enhancing drakesbane because of enemy crit evasion-. I just think some of your decisions are made on a whim.

I may have just shot myself in the foot with this post (Don't touch Last Stand -.-), but whatever.

[HimuraKenshyn]

Maybe I shouldn't be complaining because the weaponskills I'm meriting are untouched but:

SE do you really think its fair that realmrazer < hexa now, new axe ws < rampage, Reqiuescat <= Spirits Within , etc when
Tachi Shoha > Tachi: Fudo, Blade Shun is on par with blade HI (this varies), Nothing comes close to Last Stand for marksmenship physical ws and therefore is on par with wildfire for usage, etc. I really didn't see the problem with leaving the weaponskills as they were when they were released. Was it that bad the Realmrzer beat hexa, and that whms finally had a new weaponskill to use after all these years? Or same with bsts and the new axe weaponskill. I mean come on, SE. Even the polearm weaponskill has it use in enhancing drakesbane because of enemy crit evasion-. I just think some of your decisions are made on a whim.

I may have just shot myself in the foot with this post (Don't touch Last Stand -.-), but whatever.

Whoa whoa whoa or they might balance you next lol...

[scaevola]

Maybe I shouldn't be complaining because the weaponskills I'm meriting are untouched but:

SE do you really think its fair that realmrazer < hexa now, new axe ws < rampage, Reqiuescat <= Spirits Within , etc when
Tachi Shoha > Tachi: Fudo, Blade Shun is on par with blade HI (this varies), Nothing comes close to Last Stand for marksmenship physical ws and therefore is on par with wildfire for usage, etc. I really didn't see the problem with leaving the weaponskills as they were when they were released. Was it that bad the Realmrzer beat hexa, and that whms finally had a new weaponskill to use after all these years? Or same with bsts and the new axe weaponskill. I mean come on, SE. Even the polearm weaponskill has it use in enhancing drakesbane because of enemy crit evasion-. I just think some of your decisions are made on a whim.

I may have just shot myself in the foot with this post (Don't touch Last Stand -.-), but whatever.

This is exactly right. It's not that the new WSes are bad; it's that some of them are bad and some of them are amazing, and the ones that are amazing went to precisely the jobs that did not need an amazing new weapon skill.

Pretty much the only job getting a weapon skill it really needs is DNC.

[IronPandemonium]

Pretty much the only job getting a weapon skill it really needs is DNC.

>implying samurai had a relevant weapon skill

I still feel for all the other jobs though regardless, especially dark knight in particular, since it's not like MP's ever an issue anyways when the only spell you ever really cast is stun.

[darkhorror]

Test server has them updated now, lets see some testing.

[saevel]

My personal theory is that they changed design team members when Tanaka came back to FFXI. All the guys that designed Abyssea and the 80~95 level upgrades have been moved over to FFXIV to try to remake it and salvage that mess. They took the people who destroyed FFXIV and put them in charge of doing FFXI. Can't really fire them and need them to do something productive, so here we are. Their doing the same thing to FFIX that they did to FFXIV from it's birth, refuse to listen to the players and just do whatever they see fit to force us to play the way they want us to play. They keep this up and it'll be two games that Tanaka and crew destroyed.