...something? They arealmostentirely worthless. It's quite obvious these features do not do anything in the game, so stop trying to hide behind the many, many, many problems of this game.
Here are my proposals:
- Actually make Elemental Resistance matter. If I use Fluid Aura (a water ability) against a Fire enemy (a Bomb) then it should deal MORE damage, not the same amount of damage as if I used a Fire spell. Do'h!
- Make Elemental Resistance materia viable. If someone wants to use Wind Resistance materia for some sort of "Garuda"-specific gear, let them. Give people options. You don't allow players hardly any options. Increase the +1 Elemental Resistance gear to something much higher, say, 10, 20, 50, etc. This allows for interesting gear choices.
- Choosing your Guardian should decrease or increase your elemental resistances much more than how much it is currently.
- Have your Nameday DO something. Anything. Ugh.
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10-23-2013, 10:14 AMmisterrpgPlease fix bad game design: Make Guardians, Namedays, and Elemental Resistances DO
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10-23-2013, 10:30 AMArcaloid
I guess they'll be more useful when PVP comes out, like ppl can prepare different equips against say BLM and WHM.
If they make elemental resistance more effective on mobs, it will be unbalance for players in different roles. Since BLM can't really make an attack other than Fire and Ice. -
10-23-2013, 10:38 AMIgnatiusCrumwald
Well, for one, I think you should get some sort of daily bonus for making a pilgrimage to your deities altar and praying.
Also, birthday presents... -
10-23-2013, 11:18 AMReiterpallaschBombs are actually weak to fire in several final fantasy games.Quote:
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10-23-2013, 11:27 AMDarkoonI thought this rule only applied to Bombs in FFXI because they were Arcane monsters.Quote:
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10-23-2013, 11:29 AMEnkidoh
Yes, in FFXI bombs were classed as arcana, that is, they were mystical entities created from books, and paper burns, hence fire spells ironically dealt tons of damage to them.
And your Guardian does do something - it affects your elemental resistance (for instance, if your Guardian is Azeyma, you'll get a slight bonus to fire defense but a slight reduction to wind). 1.0 originally also had your Guardian could be evoked as a blessing buff during levequests, but it was removed sadly in a patch. Nameday though is pretty much just for fun - it's possible SE might do something with this in the future. -
10-23-2013, 11:35 AMRaskbuck
They probably won't do anything about it because it could threaten the "accessibility for new players"...
Let's make all the content shallow! Wheee! -
10-23-2013, 11:39 AMKaedan94
Having the Guardian choice be more severe would be a horrible design decision. Same as if Races had significant stat bonuses and penalties over other Races. Just bad design.
Elemental resistance does matter, it does affect your damage taken. But no, they won't ever have player spells follow the element of creatures, because that would make certain jobs useless in scenarios. They would have to completely redesign THM and CNJ. -
10-23-2013, 11:51 AMRaskbuckInstead it makes everyone a virtual carbon copy of one another with barely any differences. Why is diversity perceived as such a bad thing?Quote:
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I don't want to invalidate your opinion, but with all due respect, your highest level is just Lv. 32.Elemental resistance is pretty laughable when you really need it to reduce damage and the materia that enhances it is a joke. As it stands right now, it's a filler attribute that serves no practical purpose. It does reduce damage, yes, but focusing on Vitality is more effective if surviving is your concern.
Edit: Disregard the scratched part, I just read your signature. -
10-23-2013, 12:40 PMKaedan94Quote:
Originally Posted by Raskbuck
What you mistakenly think would lead to diversity would lead to the exact opposite... carbon copies. If stats were significantly different for races or guardians,everyonethe majority would be the race that min-maxes the necessary stats. It was rampant in FFXI... people didn't play the race they really wanted because they felt gimped because the stats were not correct for the job they wanted to play. -
10-23-2013, 12:49 PMmisterrpg
I knew the WoW crowd wouldn't like any of my proposals.
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10-23-2013, 12:49 PMRaskbuckTo be honest I never saw race discrimination in FFXI (on Bismark, at least), and I had the pleasure to meet very talented players that played the "wrong" race for jobs, like Galka Summoner or Tarutaru Monk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaedan94
We can't exactly cover the sun with a finger, meaning that trying to implement measures to make everyone "equal" doesn't eliminates the issue at all. So what are we attacking here, the cause or the symptom? Much like discrimination in real life, people will find the stupidest reasons to exclude someone from a group, and hoping we can prevent that through an apparent equality does not help with that. It's a social problem and it should be treated as such, hence class and race specialization isn't something inherently evil. If anything, it enhances the sense of identity each person has while playing their character. -
10-23-2013, 01:32 PMNihility
monsters having elemental resistances instead of just magic and physical would be a problem, This is not like ffxi or even the single player games.
If your playing a thaumaturge like 75%+ of your damage is fire and there is pretty much no way around that. Everything that is immune to fire would have to take like double damage from ice just to keep them somewhat usable
And it would be the same for white mage, if you wanted to solo anywhere with a stone immunity your just not going to kill anything
and elemental resistances actually do work, it's just why bother at this point? The game is far more about not getting hit in the first place than being able to take it.
In pvp on the other hand doing fire materia might actually be the way to go since it would reduce a lot of the burst from probably the biggest burst damage class
The deities and races were just a result of them pulling away from ffxi, In that game race mattered far too much in a lot of cases. galka white mage being the famous one having both tiny heals and a tiny mp pool meant that even if the person playing it was enjoying it he was a drag on anyone around him -
10-23-2013, 01:41 PMmisterrpgThere is so much wrong with that. Seriously. Did you even play XI?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nihility
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10-23-2013, 01:54 PMNaharaGalka had MND on par with Humes and the Elder Armor Set (Galka Lv.27-33 RSE) completely negated their lower natural MP score. But base stats mean nothing when, just like it is in XIV, proper gear choices can completely negate any stat differences that might exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nihility
As for the topic of enemy magic resistances: SE already said that can never happen as stated earlier. CNJ and THM/BLM would probably need to be completely redone if monsters were suddenly resistant or immune to certain elements.