[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Babekeke]

Camate, I shall give you my Chocobo's first born if you get those other weapon skill videos soon. :Q

I want to see if Taru does a backflip on any others! Especially dagger.

[Kaizersan]

Camate, I shall give you my Chocobo's first born if you get those other weapon skill videos soon. :Q

You won't have to wait long you can see them for yourself when they update the test server tomorrow.

[Kristal]

14 WS in total, 20 jobs so I'm sure multiple jobs share these. It'd stand to reason you'd need relatively high combat skill in order to use them, just putting them out of the use of any job lower than B skill.

Oh, they will be shared, but it remains to be seen if some jobs get them. RDM has higher sword skill then DRK, and actually uses swords, but it doesn't get access to a lot of sword weaponskills (in particular elemental sword WS). Also, I hope the H2H one isn't another Tornado Kick.. even though PUP can use it, you'd need Footwork and MNK kick attack gear to make decent use of it.

[Leonlionheart]

Oh, they will be shared, but it remains to be seen if some jobs get them. RDM has higher sword skill then DRK, and actually uses swords, but it doesn't get access to a lot of sword weaponskills (in particular elemental sword WS). Also, I hope the H2H one isn't another Tornado Kick.. even though PUP can use it, you'd need Footwork and MNK kick attack gear to make decent use of it.

Footwork doesn't have any effect on weapon skills, other than TP return because of the higher delay.

[SpankWustler]

Apparently the English names of the weaponskills are having the same issue as the English names of Bloodpacts and Ready commands, so good luck testing stuff we can't use!

Actually, good luck even convincing a Development Bro that something weird is going on with the English names of new stuff rather than every single English client being installed incorrectly. While I agree with them that most people who play FFXI are stupid, I seriously doubt we're that stupid.

[Zhronne]

Maintenance is over, but it seems non-JP users cannot use the Weapon Skills once again because WSs have "." as description. Seems the same issue with the two new SMN bloodpacts.

It would be unreasonable maybe to expect a translation, but then why not leaving the original JP text and allow us to use these new things? Or put a general description like "Placeholder description n° 2" or something like that, no need to wait for localization team to translate it to allow us to test them...
This is frustrating

[Zhronne]

Footwork doesn't have any effect on weapon skills, other than TP return because of the higher delay.

It does affect TP return more than that.
With Footwork active you get FULL tp return from the first TWO hits of a WS, instead than just the first one like it normally happens.
(unless my morning-dead-brain has misunderstood something of your post °_°)

[Runespider]

New WS look pretty cool, I like how they worked hard on making them all look unique and fit with the races. Mithra ones look awesome in particular.

I really hope that these animations were not wasted on low fTP, low mod% WSs. I hope these WSs shine and actually have a practical use and are still not overwhelmed by the 2006 era WSs. It would be such a waste of resources if these WSs are not amazing.

Keep in mind they put quite a lot of work into these, that alone leads me to believe they won't be skill level unlocked and instead either be quest based like emps/relics or maybe linked to clears in VW. They won't simply hand these to you given recent updates.

[Halycon]

Seems english players cannot use the new weapon skills seeing as they appear as "." which is kind of irritating i was really excited now i'm just kind of mad :x

[Zhronne]

It seems you're not up-to-date Runespider.
The 14 new WSs are already on the test server and they are unlocked through merits.
Each WS can be upgraded up to 5 times, total upgrade of the category is 15 atm, which means up to 3 maxed-up Weapon Skills.