Battle Reform Blueprint

[Duelle]

The question about the haste gear concerns me a little. I'm hoping the answer to it was a just shrug off. Its up to the dev team to figure out the balance, but there still needs to be items in the game that some people will just never obtain. If you wanna say that XI's pre-cakewalk days were too hardcore then fine, and I understand that they're trying to attract more players by making accomplishments easy to come by, but there still needs to be some form of ...social hierarchy...for lack of a better term.

Sorry, but all that does is create castes of haves and have-nots. It's not fun, and becomes a major factor/detriment in group dynamics should the stakes be raised.

Haste in FFXI became the make and break point for melee. That's why people are worried about how that reacts to auto-attack. I'd also toss in weapon delay and Store TP if that ever makes a return.

I'm more concerned about the feed TP thing, and hope they decide to implement boss encounter mechanics that don't use TP as a resource but either timed abilities or something else. TP feed should never be a factor in boss fights.

Also, what's all this talk about gear-swapping? I haven't seen it mentioned during the Q&A, so what brought that stupid piece of development into the discussion?

PS: And to state where I stand on that, no I do not want gear swapping to be part of this game. I hated it in FFXI and its a huge immersion killer.

[Poipori]

PS: And to state where I stand on that, no I do not want gear swapping to be part of this game. I hated it in FFXI and its a huge immersion killer.

yeah! definitely a big NO to gear swapping in battle, it is one of the few FFXI features that I hated, playing as a black mage, all I see is my character blinking off and on(re-rendering of character) for every single spell cast, damn annoying, not to mention the need of having huge stacks of gear in the inventory.