[dev1037] Enhancement of Battle Effects

Love the new effects, even though it should have been like that from the start.
http://na.square-enix.com/ffxiv/post_dev1037_en.jpg
Hopefully some of the weaponskills will have an increased visual effect as well.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Love the new effects, even though it should have been like that from the start.
http://na.square-enix.com/ffxiv/post_dev1037_en.jpg
Hopefully some of the weaponskills will have an increased visual effect as well.

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Though I do like the update, ignoring magic skills, It is not that we need flashier weaponskills. What we need is a variety of skills. What I mean by that is body language of the skills.
Like this in FFXI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGveRw1-e5Y

Not saying we need these skills, but ignoring the animation part, you can see drastic changes in body language for a lot of these skills. In this game a majority of weapon skills are either a simple horizontal, vertical, or diagonal slash/hit. Now that in itself is not bad, but there is no variation. If they can do changes and do backhand hits, southpaw strikes(for pugilists), or simple turn around/spin moves it would change the impact and feel in the moves, at least in my opinion. I do like semi-flashy weaponskills, but I do not want a ton of moves like simian thrash, although it is a cool move, it is way to flashy.

Sorry if I did not word this very well.

Well I would like to see simple yet flashy 1 hit moves and similar to FFXI as you get higher level you get the more potent multi-hit/flashy attacks like Dancing Edge, Rampage, Sidewinder with the killer sound effects that go with them. I agree with you to some extent on body language, but some classes lack that like Archer. Unless they give us an Arcing shot or something along those lines but even then you can only go so far without adding the sparkles or the lighting effects.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Well I would like to see simple yet flashy 1 hit moves and similar to FFXI as you get higher level you get the more potent multi-hit/flashy attacks like Dancing Edge, Rampage, Sidewinder with the killer sound effects that go with them. I agree with you to some extent on body language, but some classes lack that like Archer. Unless they give us an Arcing shot or something along those lines but even then you can only go so far without adding the sparkles or the lighting effects.

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Actually you would be surprised on how many forms archery has, though I am no great person at it, I have taken archery in the past. There are many forms they could use for this.

You do make a point, but hopefully with this patch some of the lackluster WS's from before will look more lively. I wish they would adjust the sound to some of them though.

one thing ive noticed that really needs a animation is raise lol, half the time people dont even realize its been casted on them.
and the other half the time if its casted during battle it dont work and the person wont get it .

So the FFXIV development team's solution for fixing the poor lackluster battle effects is simply to make them bigger.

Do you honestly believe that enlarging everything that looks bad will make any significant notable progress?

The first time you enlarged something was fine..doing it again for this is bluntly similar to telling us we are idiots.

Well alot of the effects would look better at 2times the size. Spells and a couple WS's, but some of the stuff needs new animations period. Chaos Thrust looks retarded.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Well alot of the effects would look better at 2times the size. Spells and a couple WS's, but some of the stuff needs new animations period. Chaos Thrust looks retarded.

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I like this WS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg_vPzlemAU

I miss Hexastrike..

What I think they should do is, make some new Class Specific abilities and weapon skills and make those look really awesome. They can keep the exchangeable abilities the same or enhance their flashiness but should add some new WSs that can only be used on that class and make them look wicked, I think Gladiator should get something akin to Savage Blade. etc etc

What I think is this belongs in General Discussion.

/endasshole mode

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Originally Posted by Jormungand

I miss Hexastrike..

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God Hexastrike, so good, i loved to melee on my whm!so much fun!

I don't want this to be in General Discussion. I want this to be talked amongst players of Wutai, although I should make a post for Gen.Discussion.

I like the enhancement of the battle effects. I hope the [visual] enhancement will also include vivid additional animations for particular battle effects. Example: BATTLE REGIMENS!!!!!!! Please make these combos (or some of the combos) visually distinctive--instead of just pink limbs, weapons, and monsters.

I dont think resizing is what the community meant about "better" looking weapon skills... need moar boom in Burst plz.

Ooh I love this one, the one that Pup would do :D my favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRX1fyshW3c

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Originally Posted by Moth

Ooh I love this one, the one that Pup would do :D my favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRX1fyshW3c

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Wow, epic!

I'm becoming a meleer in protest!
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