Movement speed for mages

[Feary]

Not a whole lot of difference between 8% and 12% but there are times when you can definetly tell like when you have someone on /follow or running long distances you tend to fall behind or get stuck on corners etc... being stuck at 8% because you can't afford 20 mil or do legion is unfair to mage jobs when most other jobs have some form of easier to obtain. Hell give kirin another drop for movement mage feet 12% and i'd be happy having to farm pops and kill him.

8 vs 12 is big difference in game mechanics. given the rate of speed in which certain species of mobs move, at 75 is was the difference between able to solo and dying. rdm or blm for example and even smn. losing aggro from distance and dot/nuke soloing is something they are being mindful. especially for a job like sch.

now of course, the game has changed much since then. s.e has already mentioned possible changes to hnms like Tiamat, so we will have to see. if any changes happen i think, it will be on the availability of items like gaiters, vs giving emp 12% movement speed to jobs like smn blm sch and whm.


if anything needs changes in the movement speed department its not being able to flee from raptors.

[Camate]

Greetings,

When it comes to jobs that wear light armor such as thief, ninja, and ranger, they’ve been given means to make it easier to increase their movements speed as a special job perk, but we do not have plans to make this possible for all job across the board.

While there is always the possibility that we add new movement enhancing equipment in the future, at the moment we do not have any specific plans to introduce this for caster jobs.

[Vivik]

Greetings,

When it comes to jobs that wear light armor such as thief, ninja, and ranger, they’ve been given means to make it easier to increase their movements speed as a special job perk, but we do not have plans to make this possible for all job across the board.

While there is always the possibility that we add new movement enhancing equipment in the future, at the moment we do not have any specific plans to introduce this for caster jobs.

This would be acceptable if you didn't already give GEO 12% movement speed on their AF. But Geo is not a caster right? Or how about Bard?

[Malithar]

This would be acceptable if you didn't already give GEO 12% movement speed on their AF. But Geo is not a caster right? Or how about Bard?

Per the quest text for obtaining the sandals, by using the mats the NPC requests, you're now "running with the wind!" :P

[Ataraxia]

Greetings,

When it comes to jobs that wear light armor such as thief, ninja, and ranger, they’ve been given means to make it easier to increase their movements speed as a special job perk, but we do not have plans to make this possible for all job across the board.

While there is always the possibility that we add new movement enhancing equipment in the future, at the moment we do not have any specific plans to introduce this for caster jobs.

Skadi's Jambeaux +1 18% speed movement is for thf/bst/rng/cor/dnc/run. I think all job should have a 12% movement speed movement gear in a form of AF 119 or relic 119 gear. If you do add new movement enhancing equipment i hope the design looks better than Skadi's Jambeaux.

[Karbuncle]

Mages have gear for movement speed.

http://www.ffxiah.com/item/15322/heralds-gaiters
and
http://www.ffxiah.com/item/14166/desert-boots

I realize the first one was mentioned in the OP as hard to get... but I mean a lot of times /sch is the best choice for a mage... so Sandstorm+Desert Boots will work well for many a mage... its like, 2 seconds to cast the spell in question to activate them.

Still i would like to mention the SAM/NIN boots, giving movement speed to SAM easily... Crimson for RDM and many a heavy armor job... but both the SAM/NIN and Crimson were as hard to obtain as Heralds at one point in time... (much more shortly so for the SAM/NIN ones lol)

So I think the only problem with Heralds is that they haven't become easier to obtain like the other non-Light armor options have... so maybe that would be good enough, making them easier to obtain? Obviously not super easy...

[SMD111]

here is a list of movement(+/-) gear
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Movement_Speed

[Glamdring]

Mages have gear for movement speed.

http://www.ffxiah.com/item/15322/heralds-gaiters
and
http://www.ffxiah.com/item/14166/desert-boots

I realize the first one was mentioned in the OP as hard to get... but I mean a lot of times /sch is the best choice for a mage... so Sandstorm+Desert Boots will work well for many a mage... its like, 2 seconds to cast the spell in question to activate them.

Still i would like to mention the SAM/NIN boots, giving movement speed to SAM easily... Crimson for RDM and many a heavy armor job... but both the SAM/NIN and Crimson were as hard to obtain as Heralds at one point in time... (much more shortly so for the SAM/NIN ones lol)

So I think the only problem with Heralds is that they haven't become easier to obtain like the other non-Light armor options have... so maybe that would be good enough, making them easier to obtain? Obviously not super easy...

what krabknuckle is too polite to say is there are all too many people on these forums (and in game) whose default setting is to whine, "oh, another job can do something I can't", yeah, that's why it's another job. When a sam can sleep an end-game mob to run clear or a nin cast chocobo mazurka, a thf cast meteor, then maybe we'll see about you being given a free movement upgrade. until then, we don't care. And yes, I do play mage jobs, I just want to be on record as NOT supporting this, like I didn't support TH for pup, or DW for beast or any of a hundred other "urgently needed fixes to broken jobs" that were just to make them like all the others. A job needs things that make them unique, otherwise there's no point in even having a jobs system. and there's REALLY no point when the solution you are asking for is already in the game!!! just make the effort to do something. maybe you'll even find a feeling of accomplishment.

[Numquam]

Why are people complaining! Use Desert Boots!

[Ophannus]

The 12% movement speed on GEO makes a bit more sense than movement speed for other mages. Since GEO is almost BRD-like in that they have to run in and out of range to cast Geo/Indi spells, and get in range for -ara spells which center on the caster not target and use directionality, movement speed plays somewhat more of an important role(vs WHM or BLM that can cast from 21' in 95% of cases)