Battle Reform Blueprint

[Delmontyb]

I hope that the job quests are interesting, and from the sound of it I am excited. From what I read you will have a quest to open up the job and then other quests to unlock new abilities. This is very exciting and has a lot of potential, as long as its done right.

So far I have really enjoyed the class quests I have done, so if job quests are anything like class quests I'd say that's a step in the right direction.

I'm also hoping that unlocking new abilities are along the lines of the job/class quests, if they add more detail along with lore, and cut scenes then I could see a lot of people being very happy with the system.

In contrast, if it's just killing 8 dodos without any cut scenes, well, I think most people will be unsatisfied with that.

[Delmontyb]

Actually i never thought side quest was gonna be awesome cause XI quest was hardly good they just a few awesome ones here and there and people start wearing their nostalgia goggles.

I logged into my G/f char today on XI because me and her did all the same quest which is like over 500+ went down the list like 20 of them was actually interesting that was none af quest.

I'm with you and found that the quest system had some great quests, but also had some crap quests.

However, I think of these sidequests (XIV) more of the starter quests that will hopefully lead to greater quests down the line. Time will tell, and while it's hard to wait, hopefully the payoff will be all the better.

Can't wait to see job quests and companies quests, those should be a sign of things to come... I hope the FFXIV team and Yoshi-P are able to "knock the next few updates out of the park" so to say, and really deliver on the promises of the first producers letter.

[Rustyhagun]

Seems to me like it'll just be equipping a specialization to your weapon class on-the-fly, increasing the effectiveness of skills relative to that job's role (such as WHM gaining effectiveness with healing/buffing magic) in turn for losing skills that aren't part of its role (in this case either losing skills from DoW/damaing THM/CON magic or having it super gimped) and also gaining a few new abilities to enhance and expand (which also makes up for the loss in effectiveness/loss of many ability options).

EX: Lancer unlocks job: Dragoon. Dragoon gives the Lancer the ability to wield spears with greater effectiveness and gives you the Jump ability, which vaults you into the air and gives invulnerability, then damages. Life Surge changes into Lancet and has increased effectiveness (somehow...increased draining or decreased cooldown).

That's how it seems to me.

From Yoshi mouth himself.
A number of plans made at the beginning of the year will soon be ripe for release. Among these are the shiny new job system (a proper system, mind you, not just renamed classes),...
From his mouth again:
Revisions to the Armoury System and battle algorithms will be spearheading(coming ahead of..) the changes, along with the introduction of the job system.(two separate systems) We’re pressing forward with changes catering to both solo and party play, so you can rest assured whatever your playing style.

p.s.
I love the clues Yoshi likes to leave behind
Now, there’s one new item on the list that fans of the FINAL FANTASY series wouldn’t have missed: the long-awaited battle with the primal Ifrit is on the way! But that’s hardly where it ends. We’ll be summoning forth more and more primals in the future, so keep an eye out for further announcements.

[Nuru]

p.s.
I love the clues Yoshi likes to leave behind
Now, there’s one new item on the list that fans of the FINAL FANTASY series wouldn’t have missed: the long-awaited battle with the primal Ifrit is on the way! But that’s hardly where it ends. We’ll be summoning forth more and more primals in the future, so keep an eye out for further announcements.

I sure hope that can be considered a clue. lol there is no telling what they are up to. I'm not underestimating Yoshi, I'm just not expecting any surprises.

[Cutriss]

I sure hope that can be considered a clue. lol there is no telling what they are up to. I'm not underestimating Yoshi, I'm just not expecting any surprises.

Well, if there's any group of FFXI players that can be strung along better than anyone else, it'd definitely be Summoners.

[Vanguard319]

Remaping the keys would do nothing to combat that between every 3 letters typed you are mashing 1-1-1-1 AA is not a "Cheap cop-out" just because you feel mashing your fist into your keyboard somehow makes the game more "Active" you are fooling yourself.

AA has it's issues as well though, personally I find them far less anoying than manual attack. Main issue being the abillity to stop attacking on a dime in situations such as reactive mob skills or crowd control situations. Speeding response time to go into passive mode would fix this for the most part.

AA and Manual attack have there ups and downs, the population is leaning towards Auto Attack and so it shall be. Don't cry and call it a "Cop-out" just because you don't like it.

Whatever, I'll call it a cop-out if I damn well please.

[Jynx]

Whatever, I'll call it a cop-out if I damn well please.

Ok doesn't mean your right. You have every right to cry if you want to, especially if it's your birthday.

[TheVedis]

Ok doesn't mean your right. You have every right to cry if you want to, especially if it's your birthday.

You would cry too if it happened to you

[Mack]

Isn't that the truth.. :/, Take the good with the bad, not everyone is a troll ( and people think when people point out trolls makes them trolls themselves) I find that hilarious! And the people that aren't trolls have positive and Negative feedback without bashing the game down. Negative feedback w/o bashing the game is alright, However when you bash a game as you give an idea it kinda makes the idea/statement voided out (at least to SE) because they "probably" think your say that idea so you can make the game worse.

But hey what can you do? lol SE is doing the right thing and taking the ideas with the most strengths and create a better version of it!

Take the good with the bad, true enough, except there isn't much good and a lot of bad. The difference between you and a lot of people on these forums is no one else feels obligated to kiss SE's ass, but for some reason you do.

[Teknoman]

Whatever, I'll call it a cop-out if I damn well please.

Ohhhh snap.