[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Kalilla]

Axe Weapon Skill “Ruinator”
We will be lowering the attack modifier value and changing it so it’s half of the current value. The amount of damage dealt to high level enemies (those that have high defense) will be reduced, however, being able to deal damage easier than other axe weapon skills will remain unchanged.

We are making it so that the amount of damage will be around the same as Rampage if you have full accuracy and get 2-3 criticals. (This is when both of them are executed at 100 TP. There is of course more damage that can be dealt depending on gear and food.)

We are making adjustments so that you can pick Ruinator if you want to deal more consistent damage, or Rampage if you want to try and deal large amounts of damage.

They couldn't just fucking leave the solid Axe WS alone...

[UnicornLeoheart]

Should just change the name from ruinator to ruined, sorry.

[Insaniac]

I can't even think of anything funny to say. This is so god damned stupid.

[FrankReynolds]

On the contrary...

You honestly like them nerfing weapon skills, and then giving half baked explanations about balance? What is wrong with you?

[kingfury]

Hey everyone, we’ve been looking over your feedback and wanted to give more details in the thought process behind our changes and some of the weapon skills themselves.

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Even after a deeper explanation of the Dev's direction/thinking with these new weapon skills, it's just a humongous disappointment to those of us that take massive pride in obtaining, testing, and perfecting the weapons skills we have. It's just a horrible direction for such great looking weapon skills. We've been seeing Re-skinned weapon skills for so long. Empyrean weapon skills were last of Great weapon skill animations we got to see (even though they all were not super effective), so these nicely animated skills had high potential to be the next BIG "energy".

This is my best suggestion for such a direction. Please use the current logic on some level 80+ "RESKINED animations" weapon skills that can merited and "enhanced" in the very same method as the Devs are proposing currently. This wouldn't take massive new production time creating new animations, and it would be numbers and values to plug in for us to start testing. Give them new names but let these non-awesome looking weapon skills absorb this strange reasoning that the Devs are looking to marry to some weapon skills.

For these beautifully new and "Powerful-looking" weapons skills, please just make them destroy our enemies upon using them. We can still unlock them via Merits and such, but just make them plan-o'l-damage dealing weapon skills please. Real easy stuff. They would instantly be loved by the player base at that point.

There's no easier way to put it I'm afraid. We all wanted to believe that these weapon skills would be just as damaging as they appear to be, so just simply award us that please.

[Greatguardian]

You honestly like them nerfing weapon skills, and then giving half baked explanations about balance? What is wrong with you?

I think he just meant he cared why they were doing all this dumb bullcrap.

[FrankReynolds]

I think he just meant he cared why they were doing all this dumb bullcrap.

I know, but he ignored the second sentence which negated the need for an explanation. I'm just giving him a hard time, because it's better that kicking the dog (which is what camates post made me want to do).

[xStealth]

Players want new weaponskills for one reason -- to deal damage, not to restore MP or to look at pretty animations. "Hey, check out these new awesome looking (for the most part) weaponskills, players! Unlock them all and suck or max out 3 and ... well, after we've nerfed them all (except GK of course!), still suck! We want to take this opportunity to invite everyone to level SAM!" Seriously, it might feel as if the players are asking for a lot, but all we want are WS that do more than the counterparts you're comparing them to. I don't think anyone expects them to do more than empyrean WS, but come on, less or at most on par with WS all jobs have had since 70 or below (most even lower)? I can't express the sheer amount of fail from the dev team on this one...

I'd say something about how you want us to be annoyed and quit to head over to XIV, but hey, that sucks even more :/ I would think since we're theoretically paying for the development (read: correction) of XIV, the dev team might actually use our input. I find it incredibly hard to believe that the JP would be in favor of nerfing all the WS.

[Greatguardian]

I know, but he ignored the second sentence which negated the need for an explanation. I'm just giving him a hard time, because it's better that kicking the dog (which is what camates post made me want to do).

Poor Camate =/. This is just one of those days where he knows the messenger is going to get shot. I hope he doesn't take it personally. Though, at the same time, maybe his bosses shouldn't be putting him in a position to get shot by the playerbase in the first place.

What do you think, moogles? Time for a ... moogle kupo d'etat?

[Kalilla]

lol, Wow! And someone actually gave a thumbs up to this nonsense.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...364#post242364

The JP's rated Mocchi up 28 times... lol