Twinfinite Interview

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Originally Posted by Brannigan

They favor BiS over what, exactly? The bad pieces? Well, no shit. If they were asked the question "would you prefer if gear had more variety and interesting stuff on it," I think you'd get some different results.

Also thanks for providing an exact situation where a random high vit low mnd piece would be good. Does only being good during progression (which is usually performed close to minimum ilvl) somehow invalidate its existence? What about a situation in which your healer is just a fucking baddie who gets hit by more AOEs than usual? He might opt to wear higher VIT pieces.

This is why the "everyone will just use the cookie cutter build" meme is so retarded. These games have so many different situations and types of people playing them that one build can't possibly always be the best for every individual. If it is, that's called being overpowered. Even in like WoTLK-era WoW you'd have a lot of little tweaks to the cookie cutter talent and gear builds to accommodate the little quirks of individuals and their party setups.

Yeah, there'll always be a configuration that is mathematically superior, but that doesn't mean devs should boil everything down to this simple garbage we have now. How is that any fun?

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No, you would get the exact same answer because damage reigns supreme in FFXIV. Look no further than back when STR tanking was a thing. Near everyone gradually adapted to damage over HP even down to the non-raiding content. Why? It was widely considered better. Likewise, why do you think healer DPS has become so prevalent? Because everything inevitably revolves around how much damage you do. "More interesting stuff" would devolve into the same "is x better than y" dichotomy we have now.

You mean like the system which already exists? It's invalidated because we can already meld VIT materia to the only tier of gear where it's more a factor. Crafted gear literally serves the exact purpose you're asking for. Once you upgrade to 260 though, very few players ever look at VIT again.

They boil down to it because most people follow the min/max philosophy. Do you know how frequent complaints are in the raid community because everyone tries to copy MrHappy, Mizzteq or Xeno's guides exactly despite not playing at their level? They'll do the same when those three or any other guide maker tosses up a video outlining what is better. The devs have to weigh whether the enormous workload would prove beneficial. I sincerely doubt it would. Can they do better? Yes. The Mastery stat from WoW has some potential. If they made the rotations a bit less rigid, Skill Speed could be more useful. There's things to improve. So don't mistake me for agreeing with their belief of streamlining further. But it's still a fine line what you can do that people will actually embrace.

They think gear is already too complicated??? Speaks volumes about their view of the average intelligence of their player base. Then again.....

I'm just going to take a quick moment to express my joy that the dream of Ishgardian Housing is not quite dead just yet.

These interviews gives me very little reason to continue healing roulettes.

The only gear stat "complexity" in the game right now is accuracy since nothing explains it ever and when you first see the accuracy stat the game just gives you the ball game butt pat then tells you to get going. It would be one thing if accuracy requirements were placed on dungeon details but that was too hard I guess so we got the "Find the proper accuracy" game instead.

So heres hoping that gear simplification is just removal of accuracy.

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Originally Posted by Elim

I'd love to see acc removed.

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I would actually like to see them change "Accuracy" to "Crit Hit Chance" and "Crit Hit" to "Crit Hit Damage". That way we won't have to worry about missing, but think about how to optimize the chance of getting a Critical Hit and the amount of damage that comes with it. We would still be "Min-Maxing" our gear to get the most out of it, which would give good reason to add more variations of gear of the same Item Level (Tome, Raid, Diadem, etc).

Why have stats, just have ilvl and be done.

Man SE underestimates their audience thanks to those who are very vocal. If these people who don't understand stats actually took the time reading up on them that they spend complaining on the forums there would be no issues.

Stats are haaard. Buttons are haaard. Doing stuff is haaard. OOOO PRETTY DRESS GIVE ME NOW
/facepalm

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

I thought the comment about ishgard possibly not being so cold and snowy anymore in the future was the most interesting thing in this article.

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Me too! Give me the old 1.0 Coerthas please!

I'm irritated by this but I guess I can't blame the DEVs to much, I mean whenever they add any complexity at all the forums do this....

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If people would stop losing their minds over a little difficulty it might not be so bad.

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Originally Posted by Aldora

I would actually like to see them change "Accuracy" to "Crit Hit Chance" and "Crit Hit" to "Crit Hit Damage". That way we won't have to worry about missing, but think about how to optimize the chance of getting a Critical Hit and the amount of damage that comes with it. We would still be "Min-Maxing" our gear to get the most out of it, which would give good reason to add more variations of gear of the same Item Level (Tome, Raid, Diadem, etc).

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Actually I like this idea. Honestly I'd be happy with it removed, changed or added to healer gear. :/

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Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia

Stats are haaard. Buttons are haaard. Doing stuff is haaard. OOOO PRETTY DRESS GIVE ME NOW
/facepalm

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Nice shire gear.

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Originally Posted by Ririta

These interviews gives me very little reason to continue healing roulettes.

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Any particular reason for this? Or is this referencing the "why we [SE] chose not to make any new tank or healer roles this go-around" part?