NEW ENIMITY WEAPON: ARM CANNON(Low Ranged Acc needed + Decent AOE Damage= FUN)

[kingfury]

It's bugged me for some time now on WAR (when SE gave WAR Aggressive Aim), but I figured this type of weapon would be coming down the pipeline at some point. Well I've been patient, but to no avail, so I suppose since we're getting an expansion next year I figure it couldn't hurt to ask for such a weapon for all jobs that could benefit from it.

Simple concept: The Arm Cannon

- A ranged weapon that doesn't require tons of Ranged Accuracy to wield and be effective
- All jobs that have Marksmanship skill can use it
- An AOE damage effect (including elemental ammo. Fire, Ice, Wind, Lightning, etc.)
- Deals moderate-high damage
- Generates moderate-high Enimity
- High delay

I would love to take such a weapon to a fight of any kind personally, and I can't see something like this being terribly hard to develop along with the new weapons and content coming our way soon. Just thought I'd ask for it.

(From post 21 in this thread) How Troll Cannons could be the answer>

[Mooshywooshy]

Awesome artwork! I can tell you before anyone else chimes in that from the graphical side of things it would be very possible as all ranged weapons have multiple bones to use for animation (although this would just use one). Missile and explosions could easily be made as well.

I think the main thing that would hold this back from becoming reality (aside from them possibly not wanting to put the work into making 7 new animations/sets of weapon skills) is getting them to accept something of this.. I guess mentality? I dunno the word im looking for.

Like the area with the monorail, it was deemed not fitting due to its advanced technology. The 'cannons' we have currently look like oversized guns, and I think they more or less try to stick to the more olde timey sword and shield, leather and iron vs dragon and orcs mentality (despite having complete departures from this theme via things like Armageddon).

I for one would love to see something like this in the game though. At one point I had made a gatling gun for my Galka so I can vouch for this being possible to make. The general idea of the need of a AoE weapon with high delay, essentially a form of magic for melee users, I think is a great idea and would be great to see!



Still waitin for dat Engineer class! ;;

-Edit-

Oh I found a picture of the gatling gun back when I was working on it!



I miss big bertha :\

[Kristal]

It's bugged me for some time now on WAR (when SE gave WAR Aggressive Aim), but I figured this type of weapon would be coming down the pipeline at some point. Well I've been patient, but to no avail, so I suppose since we're getting an expansion next year I figure it couldn't hurt to ask for such a weapon for all jobs that could benefit from it.

Simple concept: The Arm Cannon

- A ranged weapon that doesn't require tons of Ranged Accuracy to wield and be effective
- All jobs that have Marksmanship skill can use it
- An AOE damage effect (including elemental ammo. Fire, Ice, Wind, Lightning, etc.)
- Deals moderate-high damage
- Generates moderate-high Enimity
- High delay

I would love to take such a weapon to a fight of any kind personally, and I can't see something like this being terribly hard to develop along with the new weapons and content coming our way soon. Just thought I'd ask for it.

I don't see WAR ever getting something like this, they only got a D skill after all.
It would be nice to get a lvl 99 version of the Culverin though, it's the closest thing to a cannon a player can equip. Maybe with a custom weaponskill "Broadside" ;D

[Mirabelle]

Give this to WAR and make the ammo cost 150k for a stack of 12. Then when all the WAR bitch about ammo costs, maybe SE will start to listen to ranged attackers for once.

[Meyi]

Mooshy, I love all of your awesome work! I think this idea could be interesting and fun. Even if it was added as a Campaign OPs or something.

[kingfury]

Awesome artwork! I can tell you before anyone else chimes in that from the graphical side of things it would be very possible as all ranged weapons have multiple bones to use for animation (although this would just use one). Missile and explosions could easily be made as well.

I think the main thing that would hold this back from becoming reality (aside from them possibly not wanting to put the work into making 7 new animations/sets of weapon skills) is getting them to accept something of this.. I guess mentality? I dunno the word im looking for.

Like the area with the monorail, it was deemed not fitting due to its advanced technology. The 'cannons' we have currently look like oversized guns, and I think they more or less try to stick to the more olde timey sword and shield, leather and iron vs dragon and orcs mentality (despite having complete departures from this theme via things like Armageddon).

I for one would love to see something like this in the game though. At one point I had made a gatling gun for my Galka so I can vouch for this being possible to make. The general idea of the need of a AoE weapon with high delay, essentially a form of magic for melee users, I think is a great idea and would be great to see!



Still waitin for dat Engineer class! ;;

-Edit-

Oh I found a picture of the gatling gun back when I was working on it!



I miss big bertha :\

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AWESOME WORK! ^.^ / Man I need to know how to do that 3D modeling stuff some day soon! ><

Yeah, I suppose I too share a deeper feeling that the idea might be slightly deviating from the current technology feel of Vana'diel, but I suppose I'm hoping there might be another Cid-like NPC in the expansion areas to come lol. If nothing else, we've seen the DEVs introduce cool new types of technology/magic with each new expansion, so It's really exciting to be able to suggest ideas to the DEVs while they're still working on the new content.

We have all kinds of wonderful advanced tech in FFXI (tele pads, animated Golems, flying ships, bio-technical monsters, etc.) so I would hope to only inspire the brilliant artist working on the expansion to construct a design that fits the FFXI tech feel without deviating too far from the current art direction

Great insight though, thanks for your post /

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Wife let you off the leash KF? lol
I thought she banned you.

[kingfury]

Wife let you off the leash KF? lol
I thought she banned you.

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lol ^.^' Well I've been a single Galka for a while now, but yeah, I've missed FFXI deeply! Life banned me for a bit though with stupid bills and crap. >.>

[Tsukino_Kaji]

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lol ^.^' Well I've been a single Galka for a while now, but yeah, I've missed FFXI deeply! Life banned me for a bit though with stupid bills and crap. >.>

Well, welcome back. Go get your shiney new Chatoyant Staff so you can bitch about it doing less dmg on on ice spells not relaizing it's missing the elemental bonus. lol

[BurnNotice]

This is badass! lol. Good Job!

In any case, if we can have weapons such as this for WAR, SE would need to raise Marks Skill cap from D to at least B+.