Immersive and deep, or archaic and annoying?

[Sanchezz4387]

totally agree with Op....i personally found it laughable and embarrassing that fire was my main damage dealing spell against Ifrit!!!!!! I mean COME ON SQUEENIX, wheres the common sense?

[WellFooled]

totally agree with Op....i personally found it laughable and embarrassing that fire was my main damage dealing spell against Ifrit!!!!!! I mean COME ON SQUEENIX, wheres the common sense?

Its only common sense because we're so used to the idea and the mechanic in RPGs, but a commonly used mechanic is all it is. In real life if you ram a rock into another rock it'll do damage, fire fighters start fires to halt the spread of other, more powerful ones. It seems to me that the current system is just as much common sense as anything else.

Not that I wouldn't want the old elemental wheel back, I enjoyed it

[Remilia_Nightfall]

totally agree with Op....i personally found it laughable and embarrassing that fire was my main damage dealing spell against Ifrit!!!!!! I mean COME ON SQUEENIX, wheres the common sense?

Yeah, sure.

Make a mandatory boss immune to a specific attack type.

Next: deal with the whining and screaming of classes that are not accepted in raids because they deal that particular attack type.

[darkm0d]

Yeah, sure.

Make a mandatory boss immune to a specific attack type.

Next: deal with the whining and screaming of classes that are not accepted in raids because they deal that particular attack type.

Right, because BLM's should totally only have one main elemental nuke. Makes total sense. Lets literally change the way a CORE job works after it's worked the same way for 25 years. Casuals have completely ruined multiple aspects of this game and the elemental wheel is such a perfect example.

[Tupsi]

Yeah, sure.

Make a mandatory boss immune to a specific attack type.

Next: deal with the whining and screaming of classes that are not accepted in raids because they deal that particular attack type.

Oh you mean like how people already try to exclude summoner, in a final fantasy game because they're "the weakest DPS"? How people sometimes immediately drop out of a DF raid because we have a SMN? Yeah that won't exclude people because the DF doesn't exclude anyone. Being immune to an attack just means it has a gimmick, much like "melee DPS is worthless in Chimera circa. FFXIV 1.x", all you had to do was break his tail and learn how to not stand in plumes.

I agree with OP, XI and 1.0 had so much more life in certain aspects - the liveliness they did with monsters was just their own emote..that's cool, but I prefer when I cast magic near sprites or elementals that they want to eat my face off for doing so.

[Conradus]

totally agree with Op....i personally found it laughable and embarrassing that fire was my main damage dealing spell against Ifrit!!!!!! I mean COME ON SQUEENIX, wheres the common sense?

My first reaction that I would have to use Fire to defeat Ifrit was, "That's like trying to drown a fish."