Suggestion - Give us "Scan" and tent pls.

Doing some fates with a friend of mine (both DPS) and him dying... I stumbled over that phoenix down in my inventory.

That's when I asked myself: Why is there no "tent", usable to log out once in the wilderness while still getting the boost on xp you would get in town and maybe a foodlike buff (bit weaker as and not stackable with foodbuff) for 30 mins, when returning.

Another thing I'd like to see is the ability "Scan" for monster lore (maybe listing possible drops and attacks to, if some requirements are fullfilled).

The maps really aren't large enough to make tents all that useful, and scan would be more useful if we had elemental weaknesses or something along those lines but is otherwise just fluff. If they were going to add lore to mobs, it might be better to add a bestiary in the inn rooms where we can view the details of any enemy or boss we've defeated in combat.

Maybe scan can work in a way where we can see what or how high an enemy's resistance is...opposite from what the original scan did (see weaknesses).

I was thinking Scan could be used as a way of raising Critical Hit Rate on an enemy. You scan for weaknesses, it places a debuff on the enemy and you take advantages of its weakspots..

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Originally Posted by TheMunimai

I was thinking Scan could be used as a way of raising Critical Hit Rate on an enemy. You scan for weaknesses, it places a debuff on the enemy and you take advantages of its weakspots..

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I'd find that interesting, I forgot about it from earlier FF games. Maybe in 4.0? Once the PS3 limitations are put behind us it could, providing they exploit it, make the whole game far more involving. Even if they leave the 2.x & 3.x areas as they are there's the scope in 4.0 for sheer brilliance.

I don't know when the next generation of consoles are coming but I foresee the PS4 becoming the next baseline and that is a damn powerful system as it stands.

Apologies for the digression.

I'd love a Bestiary that unlocks lore and info on each mob as you defeat then.

Technically both tents and Scan are obsolete given the differences between the single-player FF games and the MMORPG environment of FFXIV - as HP and MP naturally regenerate quickly a tent would serve no purpose if it's traditional use is retained (restores all HP, MP and status when used on the world map or a save point), however, your idea about it acting like a sanctuary and allowing you to log out and get an exp bonus if used actually sounds amazing. :D

As for Scan (or 'Libra' as it was also known in some FF games), as others have stated, this is obsolete simply due to how FFXIV is designed - the elemental wheel is virtually non existent and even it's effect in FFXI is made obsolete by FFXIV's GUI (in FFXI the SCH's Libra spell revealed an enemy's enmity level - naturally this function is already shown by default on the interface in FFXIV). So I think this is one of those things from earlier games that have been kind of left behind by the evolution of the game.

heh, give us a use for phoenix down first lol.

Could have sworn someone made a thread like this ages ago.

Scan would be useless since there is nothing to scan for.

All "weakness" and "strengths" have been removed to make raiding more convenient. So raiders can just jump right into raiding rather than have to collect armour and weapons with the right elemental properties despite collecting and selecting gear for fights being a nigh fundamental part of any RPG. Too much work for raiders apparently.

/shrug

As for the rest of us, we just have to live with this Fisher Price RPG system I suppose.

Oooh I'd really like a Scan skill in this game :o Really like the idea! :D

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Originally Posted by Bishop81

Scan would be useless since there is nothing to scan for.

All "weakness" and "strengths" have been removed to make raiding more convenient. So raiders can just jump right into raiding rather than have to collect armour and weapons with the right elemental properties despite collecting and selecting gear for fights being a nigh fundamental part of any RPG. Too much work for raiders apparently.

/shrug

As for the rest of us, we just have to live with this Fisher Price RPG system I suppose.

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Get your facts right, they kept it simple for the average player, not the top players. Also, theres nothing "complex" about elements and resistance, it just boils down to pointless limitations on gear and abilities.

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

Get your facts right, they kept it simple for the average player, not the top players. Also, theres nothing "complex" about elements and resistance, it just boils down to pointless limitations on gear and abilities.

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HA!

Dude, I have played WoW. It's used to have resist gear but it got removed. Why? Blizzard outright admitted because it was "not fun for raiders" to have to farm it to clear content.

It's not "difficult", it's just "inconvenient". And heavens forbid that raiders are inconvenienced. Who cares about the rest of the player base right?

Frankly, raiders just want to raid. The rest of the game is irrelevant to them and they would rather it be removed. Blizzard listened ... and we got the watered down Raids of Warcraft where the open world is more or less deserted because there is zero open world content - hey it's not "raid related" so Blizzard didn't bother.