Solution to "blinking"

[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.

[Ihnako]

Name one other MMO where swapping gear causes your character to blink and shed everyone's targeting of them.

Name a game besides FFXI that allowes exzessive gearchanging while fighting?
Most MMOs I know force you to have one gearset for each situation that occur and you have to change it before you fight.

But back to topic
The option to "bind" the appearence of yourself and/or other players wouldn't hurt while there's still one problem to solve - what about weapons? It would be confusing to see someone hack'n'slash a NM with a slow swinging weapon like on drugs cause he's actually using daggers/katanas.

This only highlights their incompetence.


Get some real programmers.

Before you state that SE doesn't have the men(tal)power for a solution, write an application so SE could hire you.

[Catsby]

Before you state that SE doesn't have the men(tal)power for a solution, write an application so SE could hire you.

Wouldn't matter. FFXI is JP onry. Go look at their credits.

[Mirage]

But back to topic
The option to "bind" the appearence of yourself and/or other players wouldn't hurt while there's still one problem to solve - what about weapons? It would be confusing to see someone hack'n'slash a NM with a slow swinging weapon like on drugs cause he's actually using daggers/katanas.

Easy, don't allow locking of weapons.