AOE Rings

[Duuude007]

Phew, thank goodness for mindless aoe rings. For a while I thought I was actually going to have to put thought into the game and learn the battles I wanted to win. I guess I'd be ok with another layer of dumbing it down if this were the first game I ever played or I wore a padded helmet....... but I don't so I'm not too happy about it personally.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. It is graphical input by looking at the monster, rather than looking at a text box. nothing more.

Hell, its even only for special attacks, mid tier stuff (including aoe) will remain blind.

[HiirNoivl]

Throw in multiple mob attack patterns and it can get pretty bad.

Big deal. They're probably just going to be trash mob symbols anyway.

All this complaining is probably just XI snobbery.

[Darkoon]

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. It is graphical input by looking at the monster, rather than looking at a text box. nothing more.

Hell, its even only for special attacks, mid tier stuff (including aoe) will remain blind.

Wrong, you are not looking at the monster, you are looking at the ground. You seem to think that we want FFXI text based combat log reaction back and that is not true. I want to see the monster perform an animation so I can react accordingly WITHOUT having to red the combat log.

[Duuude007]

Wrong, you are not looking at the monster, you are looking at the ground. You seem to think that we want FFXI text based combat log reaction back and that is not true. I want to see the monster perform an animation so I can react accordingly WITHOUT having to red the combat log.

...And you still don't seem to get that the animations are still there.

[Darkoon]

Standard charge animations is all I saw.

[Darkoon]

http://youtu.be/FCCKYfouAxE?t=1h32m39s

Standard charge animation + cast bar + AoE ring

[Holy_Dragoon]

Sounds like a decent balance of AoE rings and monster visual cues. I can live with that.

[Duuude007]

Sounds like a decent balance of AoE rings and monster visual cues. I can live with that.

indeed. /10char

[Leenk]

People truly will find a way to complain about the most minuscule things

[Spy]

To give you a bit of insight on the AoE ring in the screenshot; the red ring surrounding the peiste indicates that the monster's AoE attack is coming and where it will hit. (So you better move!)

All players will be able to see these AoE rings, but please note that these rings aren't displayed for every single AoE attack, only for special actions. Lastly, these rings will not be displayed for player enhancements such as protect and there are currently no plans to be able to toggle these on/off.

Aww...no protect rings? Kinda sad...but oh well. Thank you for clearing that up! ^^