Solution to "blinking"

[Didgist]

This involves a menu, or even an on/off switch, where you select equipment from your inventory to be displayed in.

The game displays you wearing whatever you selected to be shown in. This would allow players to display their "Town Gear" in action, while giving mages and other support type jobs a much needed breather. Client side you would still blink/swap gear etc. but to other characters you wouldn't.

Blinking personally hasn't been an issue, but I think it would go a long way to preserving old achievements as well as promoting having your own sense of style.

[Kavik]

First off i HATE it when melee blink and then get irritated that the 'mage' is not doing their job when they die, when they blink so bloody much that you target yourself and toss a totally useless cure 6 instead of saving their butts. Anyway! i think this would be a fun idea, i would love to fight in gear like the pumpkin head from the holloween event and still have the stats of my orison cap +1 on.

[Cream_Soda]

First off i HATE it when melee blink and then get irritated that the 'mage' is not doing their job when they die, when they blink so bloody much that you target yourself and toss a totally useless cure 6 instead of saving their butts. Anyway! i think this would be a fun idea, i would love to fight in gear like the pumpkin head from the holloween event and still have the stats of my orison cap +1 on.

Because that is not a valid excuse. If they die because the mage can't target them, it is 100% the mage's fault.

Why? Because you don't need to be targeted to be cured. There is MORE than 1 way around it. If you cure using the most inefficient method, then yes, you are a bad mage.

[QUOTE][ The issue to blinking is <p01> <p02> <a01> <a02> etc..../QUOTE]
There is also <stpt> and <Stal> which lets you pick the person directly from the pt/ally list w/o having to target them at all and them changing gear has 0 affect on the cure.

If someone dies on your watch and you blame blinking, you are a terrible mage.

Step your stuff up.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

The issue to blinking is <p01> <p02> <a01> <a02> etc....

That said, wouldn't it just be easier to block the blink effect, and therefore the armour currently equipped when you select the target?

[Ordoric]

no its not always the mage stop blameing us. old senario kirin melee 40% health run @ kirin whorlwind blink ws dead /poing and lol

[Cream_Soda]

no its not always the mage stop blameing us. old senario kirin melee 40% health run @ kirin whorlwind blink ws dead /poing and lol

Blinking should never be the reason a DD dies. Again, how could you not cure someone blinking w/ <stpt>, <stal>, <p01> <p02> <a01> <a02>.

If they're not in your party, you can even type their name

/ma "Cure V" Cream

and put that in a macro.

IF the mage is prepared, there is no reason anyone should ever die due to blinking problems, ever.


If you're a mediocre mage, then yea, if people don't want to die, then they'll have to adjust their play style, but at that point, I'd just replace the mage before I'd replace the play style. Nobody should have to lower their performance so that you can be lazy.

[Didgist]

Name one other MMO where swapping gear causes your character to blink and shed everyone's targeting of them. This would completely destroy people in PVP, something that FFXI hasn't been able to expand on due to forced gear locking. I am not the biggest MMO player but 1-2 second full character blink only still exists in FFXI unless I am mistaken. Personally, I love the game as it is and just have fun with content as it is added, and would prefer things the way they are.

However a lot of DD and Tanks decide to blame players for the oversight or limits of the Development Team. It is not XWhite Mages fault you blink and people miss target on you, it's the coders who never went back and fixed a massive hole in battle mechanics. What White Mage has 4 pallettes dedicated to just casting Cure 5 and Cure 6? How is this efficient? How do you quickly sort through 40 macros looking for one that is not named, only numbered?

Implementing this system would allow for gear swaps during Ballista, alleviate issues with player targeting, and overall really iron out a long standing issue in this game.

As you can see, it causes a lot of misguided arguements.

[Duelle]

Name one other MMO where swapping gear causes your character to blink and shed everyone's targeting of them. This would completely destroy people in PVP, something that FFXI hasn't been able to expand on due to forced gear locking. I am not the biggest MMO player but 1-2 second full character blink only still exists in FFXI unless I am mistaken. Personally, I love the game as it is and just have fun with content as it is added, and would prefer things the way they are.

There's only two games I know of that allow gear-swaps mid-combat. This one and Lineage II. L2 doesn't have the character blink, so that part is a non-issue. Since FFXI's UI has to reload the whole character whenever gear is changed, it is really the only MMO that has this problem.

That being said, it was a bad move to design so much of the game around swapping gear, because it does create issues (both on the end of inventory space, not to mention ruining any semblance of immersion and making things harder for people that are not keyboard masters or who can't quickly type things in mid-combat due to the blinking itself).

PS: Stop blaming the mages. This is purely a design issue that we happen to get hit by more than other classes.

[Kaych]

Like you said:

There's only two games I know of that allow gear-swaps mid-combat.

That only you know of^_-

But I agree on the swapping of gears. Its annoying. You should get a "bonus" from locking gear at MH or something.

[Alkalinehoe]

There's only two games I know of that allow gear-swaps mid-combat. This one and Lineage II. L2 doesn't have the character blink, so that part is a non-issue. Since FFXI's UI has to reload the whole character whenever gear is changed, it is really the only MMO that has this problem.

That being said, it was a bad move to design so much of the game around swapping gear, because it does create issues (both on the end of inventory space, not to mention ruining any semblance of immersion and making things harder for people that are not keyboard masters or who can't quickly type things in mid-combat due to the blinking itself).

PS: Stop blaming the mages. This is purely a design issue that we happen to get hit by more than other classes.

No. There is no reason mages should be letting DDs die because of blinking. There are macros to prevent that, pressing CTRL+1 is not being a "keyboard master."

Like you said:



That only you know of^_-

But I agree on the swapping of gears. Its annoying. You should get a "bonus" from locking gear at MH or something.

I doubt it would offset the "bonus" of TPing in full haste and WSing in full WS gear.