Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[Gokuhan]

- Had a friend become frustrated with how the AoE system is done in the game, this is what he told me in chat, I xxx out the name for privacy.

"[4:38:24 PM] xxx: so now i ran to a bunch of ants
[4:38:26 PM] xxx: aoe
[4:38:37 PM] xxx: and every one has a chance to land a hit on me
[4:38:48 PM] xxx: so yep.....mage job officially over
[4:39:00 PM] xxx: gonna try rng next"

I like how your friend did something stupid by using an AoE move within a group on enemies and then complains that's it's the game design and not his bad choice that is to blame.

I played XI for over 7 years. I loved it. But this isn't XI-2. XIV is a different animal and that's OK. If people would accept this as something new instead of being upset that every attack/skill/mechanic isn't like it is in XI or WoW or w/e they would have more fun.

[SasaraiKorai]

(See what Scholar did to XI and how it was promptly nerfed into oblivion for being ridiculously overpowered).

Promptly nerfed into oblivion? The only substantial nerf the job received was to Embrava and it took a long time before that even happened. (And FYI, Embrava is still actually pretty good.) That "ridiculously overpowered" job is pretty much the same. It could actually use a couple fixes but that's a conversation for another time.

I'm not a fan of elemental magic in this game either, but it isn't changing and everyone should just get used to it.

[Taaku]

Promptly nerfed into oblivion? The only substantial nerf the job received was to Embrava and it took a long time before that even happened. (And FYI, Embrava is still actually pretty good.) That "ridiculously overpowered" job is pretty much the same. It could actually use a couple fixes but that's a conversation for another time.

I'm not a fan of elemental magic in this game either, but it isn't changing and everyone should just get used to it.

Modus Veritas got a pretty huge nerf as well, but yeah. as far as i remember SCH actually got buffed when it got its AF (with the inclusion of defensive spells such as Blink and Stoneskin, as well as Addendum: white/black)

[Steeled]

Modus Veritas' nerf had little impact on the job.

The problem with MV was that it could potentially take a boss down in a number of seconds with a number of scholars timing things perfectly.

I'm not sure they took anything substantial down, and I know they never got AV with it, though that was the ultimate goal.

Nerfing that one ability was hardly nerfing the job into Oblivion and had little impact on how Scholar actually played in traditional party setups.

[Rillifane]

THM/BLM - Blackmages have always been able to cast all elemental magics, but for some reason CNJ/WHM which supposed to be primarily a healing class can cast black magic.

Final fantasy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, tactics, tactics advance, tactics advance 2 and crystal chronicles would like to have a word with you. (hint: blms only had fire ice and thunder in these games). [i'm sure i've left some games out too]

[Taaku]

Modus Veritas' nerf had little impact on the job.

The problem with MV was that it could potentially take a boss down in a number of seconds with a number of scholars timing things perfectly.

I'm not sure they took anything substantial down, and I know they never got AV with it, though that was the ultimate goal.

Nerfing that one ability was hardly nerfing the job into Oblivion and had little impact on how Scholar actually played in traditional party setups.

Indeed. i never said it was 'nerfing it into oblivion' the rest of my statement more or less said the opposite. as far as i'm concerned sch never got nerfed to oblivion .

though i'd have personally preferred they had removed the abillity. since it never lands lol.

you could say the same thing about Embrava, since it requires the 1hr . it too is not apart of sch's regular party play. (i suppose maybe every hour? lol)



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on another note, one thing i'd like them to add is on the crafting recipe menu, to add a check-mark next to the level sections (such as 1-5, 6-10 ect) once you've crafted all the items in that section. its not a huge deal of course, but would make it easier to know if you've got some you havent done yet.

[Meanjello]

the only thing bothering me about the game so far is that on the ps3 version, when i am in first person view and i speak to a small person or creature, the word bubbles cover up their faces. >.< i wish the camera would angle so the word bubbles are below their faces. instead i can try to apply slight pressure on the joystick to balance the camera but it wants to reset itself to a specific place; over the little faces. the choice i have made is to exit first person view.

[Wobble]

Happy Friday, everyone!

The development team has been working hard to finalize the expansion of the aforementioned cross hotbar features, as well as the brand new user interface features. They are currently in the final stages of polishing everything up and are headed towards a patch 2.1 implementation at full steam.

We'll be announcing all the details in the very near future!

What is this talking about?

[MartaDemireux]

I would like the to see the following.

THM/BLM - Blackmages have always been able to cast all elemental magics, but for some reason CNJ/WHM which supposed to be primarily a healing class can cast black magic.
- Please let THM/BLM cast all elemental magics.
elemental spells full damage. That Aero and Thunder spells are horrible.

FFXI was the ONLY FF in which BLM could cast all the elements. When the wind element made its debut, it was a white mage spell. When the water element made its debut it was a blue magic spell.

Traditionally BLM can only cast Ice, Fire and Thunder based spells. If you don't believe me, go to the FF wiki.

Edit: Whoops Delmontyb addressed it first, didn't see it but it still remains true!

[GaGaK]

Not sure if this has already been mentioned but is not listed in the main page.

Please let us dye every armor, its sad to see everyone with darklight armor or job armor having the same appearance, the only lvl 50 armor (the green armor) we can dye now are really meh....

and let the dye effect all part of the armor, for example in botanist chest piece lvl 50 the dye only affect the "inner cloth" and not the "vest", so please let us dye the "vest" as well even if it means using 2 dye.