Final Fantasy XIV Auto-Attack Video

[Kilta_Firelotus]

You didnt read the post that community rep posted did you archers AA will be cwhen close only. it wont be AA for shooting your bow.

you know that was all you had to do...... no need for the rudeness

to add all I see is a lalafell beating on a mob with their bow. In DCUO the bow users lol.... thinking back on it is funny. take their bow and use it as a melee weapon. It looks pretty funny also ima see if I can find a vid on it.
found one

this is melee bow + ranged in dcuo. the user uses the bow as both a ranged and melee weapon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V2Z9Ccc1xg

(id kill to have dcuo combat over AA)

[kukurumei]

(id kill to have dcuo combat over AA)

After what happened to DCUO, no you don't. Though tera might be able to pull it off right or even SWTOR. Action MMOs are gimmicky at best, and a black hole for user depopulation at worse. Playing with patterns can be hazardous to programing health. The bigger the budget the more you can do the impossible.

FF14 even with the new AA desperately needs more flavor, it's true, but archer's being special is not. Too many ways to get the arc to play like an archer, whether we do it the RO way, the FF11 way, the WoW way, etc.

[zaviermhigo]

DCUO sucked. I played multiple classes on that game. The reason why I hated it, there was an ultimate build, and although in FF I would like their to be an ultimate build, in DCUO it didn't seem appropriate that if you wanted to play your class the right way you had to pick a certain weapon. Very limiting when you think about the weapon choices you had. At least this isn't Star Wars: The Old Republic, Ranged tank, lol.

[Corrderio]

SE wouldnt give Archer AA with a weapon strong enough to make the bow obsolete

Which makes me wonder why they're even bothering with a melee AA for archer.

[Petori]

I can imagine archers taking their arrows and start poking mobs with them.

Edit button can make wonders Kilta. I don't really like to see your double/triple post every damn thread you post.

[Shikyo]

Which makes me wonder why they're even bothering with a melee AA for archer.

Its good to have options and adds a lvl of strategy pass just standing back and mashing 1 button.
I gave a good example for thoes that never played rng in ffxi.

Why so many Emo's breaking out the straight razors about Archer and AA?
It's awesome you have total control.
Say you are fight a tough mob we all know a archer spamming arrows can take hate easy enough which is bad at times.
With AA you can come in and do some low Dmg DoT+Gain tp (death over time of course) while hate is being established, then move back and loose shots and ws's. You control what dmg you do and when its called Strategy to me idk.
It works very well, AA attack with bow makes no sense to me at all and i guess SE felt the same and I bet alot of others do as well.
Like I said earlier though, If you dont like how the class works dont play that class, I dont care much for mage or tank classes, so..... I JUST DONT PLAY THEM, easy. OR you could lay in a corner in the fetal position and cry yourself to sleep.
Either way thats the way Archer/Rng will be played after the update, I think its great.

sorry to quote myself. =/

[Ilean]

Until we know at least a bit of how they are handling archer it's kinda pointless to discuss it.

Oh and remember not to reply to crazy people, just place an /ignore in place of anything that you would say to it, then post something relevant to the thread.

[Shikyo]

Until we know at least a bit of how they are handling archer it's kinda pointless to discuss it.

Oh and remember not to reply to crazy people, just place an /ignore in place of anything that you would say to it, then post something relevant to the thread.

we do know this about how archer will play..

Checked with the dev. team regarding questions about archers and their ability to auto-attack. Auto-attack as a system will initiate when the player is fighting an enemy in close range. While archers will be able to auto-attack enemies while in close range it won't be with arrows. New animations will be implemented to make this all happen!

This gives me at least a pretty good ideal of what archer will play like after the update and it sounds good to me.

[Ichi]

umm so auto attack works at close range... does that mean archer is getting a melee weapons or are they gonna bash mobs with their bows?

[Shikyo]

umm so auto attack works at close range... does that mean archer is getting a melee weapons or are they gonna bash mobs with their bows?

Most likely will play like ffxi rng a small dagger/hand axe in close which coould have some nice stats to boot! i highly doubt you will be wacking the mob with your bow =/ come on... lol.
Check some rng vids from ffxi and i bet thats pretty close to what we will see and rng freakin owned in xi so i am happy.
Now if we could just get samurai....SE