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    Player Mayoyama's Avatar
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    Final form Magian Trial staffs - A request to change appearance

    I know the final forms of magian staffs have been around for a while, but I still feel it would be nice after having put in so much time and effort to get the 99 version of the staff to have at least an orb/jewel/pattern or some marking on it showing something different for each element. The current ones look so plain and dull.
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    As I stand looking out from my mog house window, I reminisce about the old days and the many ups and downs of my adventures throughout Vana'diel.

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    Player Concerned4FFxi's Avatar
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    have you seen the str sword....ugh
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kincard
    The reason I keep coming back to XI as opposed to other MMOs is because of the content's lastability. While it is true that many pieces are outdated with each patch, to this day there are many old pieces of gear that are still near top-tier if not the top-tier. It encourages you to explore the whole breadth of content rather than asking you to bumrush and bypass all the old content just so you can grind the newer content. This is a model used by other MMOs such as WoW, and while I don't have anything against people that enjoy this model, if I wanted to play an MMO with that model there are many, many games vast superior to XI in terms of mechanics and especially customer service that offer such a model.

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    Player Mostfowl's Avatar
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    All elemental weapons are ugly as sin. The dagger is beyond horrid and the staffs are completely lackluster. They could at least do something to make them special. They dont need to be as fancy as the empy but at least give them a different/unique look. They are alot of work after all, give us a little bling for the effort
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    Player RAIST's Avatar
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    at least having them use the same model keeps you from blinking whenyou change staves a lot. But still...the model is pretty meh...on the fence about whether to ask for orbs to represent the elements (a la Elemental Staves), but at least something better than a birdhouse on a stick.
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    Player Camiie's Avatar
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    I still think adding cosmetic trials to give you a handful of models to choose from for the final form weapon would be kinda cool. I'd make the trials something simple like the ones we did to unlock job emotes.
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    Player Mayoyama's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by RAIST View Post
    at least having them use the same model keeps you from blinking whenyou change staves a lot. But still...the model is pretty meh...on the fence about whether to ask for orbs to represent the elements (a la Elemental Staves), but at least something better than a birdhouse on a stick.
    I idle in move speed legs so I end up blinking anyway every time I cast a spell for goetia +2 legs.

    They could change the knob on the end of the staff to different colours and it should look fine. just some sort of variety would be nice
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    As I stand looking out from my mog house window, I reminisce about the old days and the many ups and downs of my adventures throughout Vana'diel.

    It is then that I know achievement.

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    Unless there is profit to be found in doing this minor change expect to see that birdhouse-on-a-stick forever. But hey if your on PC no probs just dat swap.
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    It doesn't take much to know when someone is special. After 5 minutes if the person is alive and well you have a keeper, if they are dead and obnoxious then toss em like two day old leftovers.

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    Player Reiterpallasch's Avatar
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    Even if they only reused the crappy ele stave model (which shouldn't be hard, they're already there), it would at least allow PC users to use custom dats per staff. As it stands now though, they all use the same 1 model, so it's impossible to change the dats to make them look different from one another.
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    Player Meyi's Avatar
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    Oh God yes, some change between elements please. ;w;

    Maybe they should look at MooshyWooshy's idea for the elemental staves. Those were gorgeous.
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    I wonder why they gave final form Sword and final form Axe a new graphic(not new but different than previous trials) but not other weapons. Axe's final form became the black model axe and Sword's model became the gold sword graphic.
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