Dat Alphinaud Cutscene Doe (Possible 4.3 Spoilers)

So, that cutscene where you get to play as Alphinaud. Alphinuad? Blah. I'm not French, how the frick do I know how to spell his name, lol.

Either way, that cutscene/duty was just pure awesome.

I hope you guys at SE won't let any naysayers convince you not to do any more of that kind of thing.

My main takeaway? Alphy sucks as an arcanist. You seriously only know 4 spells plus your summon? No wonder you couldnt lead the Crystal Braves - who would follow someone like that? If the leader isnt making an effort then we have to conspire against him or something.

Well like his sister it may turn out that he is better at something else. So i guess we will see
But i did enjoy the fight and hope they add similar things in the future

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Originally Posted by Frizze

My main takeaway? Alphy sucks as an arcanist. You seriously only know 4 spells plus your summon? No wonder you couldnt lead the Crystal Braves - who would follow someone like that? If the leader isnt making an effort then we have to conspire against him or something.

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Well they obviously did that for gameplay reasons; one should not be forced to level Arcanist just for this cutscene alone.

They only gave you 4 buttons, because they didn't want players getting stuck on this cutscene until they went and leveled ACN up to a certain level to understand how one plays. They felt that a direct DPS, Heal, a Bind, and a Limit Break was plenty to make for an interactive cutscene.

I mean, STILL better than Tataru at any rate.

They're not going to give you 20 spells and abilities to use for Guest characters that you play as, especially for an instanced battle. It's meant to be more of an interactive cutscene than an actual battle. Since they have to assume there are people playing who have never played an Arcanist or Caster before, they simplify the and condense the skills. You get a Damage, Heal, and a Bind skill, and a Limit Break. Why complicate it? If anything they can do this with other characters to give the player a taste of other classes that perhaps they've yet to try out. I can imagine someone who has only ever played Melee playing this cutscene and actually falling in love with it and are then inspired to level Summoner or Scholar.

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

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Yeah, that would be awesome, especially tank and healer tryouts too. Hopefully those will eventually be a thing, might inspire more peeps to give it a try. Give them a basic cliffnotes version of how one of those things plays and the player might end up liking the playstyle.\

To be honest, starting a job at Level 1 is insanely boring, you feel weak, you're wearing basically either nothing or your racial clothes, you only have 1 button and you fight little rats and bugs.

That's not fun.

But, this thing with Alphinaud, you're fighting imperial soldiers and magitek helicopters and you've got more than just 1 thing you can do.

If we did more like this.... it'd be a better way to introduce a player to a new playstyle, or new class.

You can kinda-sorta do that with extra jobs from HW and SB, but the problem with those as I JUST experienced with RDM.... I get a Lv50 job that's got a dozen buttons and I'm like "how do these all fit?" and it takes a few battles to really get the hang of it and even then you're trying to build muscle memory and it's a bit much all at once.

Now, I had already gotten SCH on ~45 before this Alphinaud thing, but I can imagine that if I've never touched ACN (or any caster) before, that it would have been a decent "this is what it looks like from their PoV thing" and who knows maybe I would have been "hey, that's cool... I might try unlocking ACN now."

Aphy is my least liked char in game and playing his inept class was shameful. Pick another next time plz and ty.

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Originally Posted by Dualblade

I mean, STILL better than Tataru at any rate.

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Miles better.

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Originally Posted by Linx0r

Miles better.

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Eh, I just did the RDM 60 fight today with Arya... and dude.... Arya..... GET OUT OF THE AOEs!!!!

I spent half the battle chain-casting Vercure on her just to keep her alive while trying to dodge the AoEs myself and she keeps stepping in them trying to follow the enemy, or CaCing herself right into them.... nngh. So annoying.

I think the Tataru fight in the Reisen Shrine was better than that RDM 60 thing.

I had to redo that fight 3 times cause she always stayed in the AOEs. Before I finally got it I wasted all my MP just spamming vertcure to keep her up lol

I'm hopeful that they'll let us play as Brayflox Alltalks testing out some reconstructed Brute Justice bots on the local wildlife.

Haha Tataru, I remember she killed me once and I told my bf "dafok, I think Tataru just killed me"
To which he replied "Ofc she's your noon player"

I spent the next fight literally screaming "Tataru gtfo ffs!"

I thought it was pretty damn great. It was really nice to play as alphanerd.