Swiming

[PlanckZero]

Swimming serves no purpose. If people want water based content they need to be asking for areas/dungeons featuring a water breathing spell effect. Rather than a useless swimming feature where people will just end up bitching that they swam so far out that they hit an invisible wall this would allow for expanded content and under water fights like raiding a Sahagin base or fighting aquatic enemies that don't just magically float around in mid air.

[Ninix]

under water fights

oh god please please please please no

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

oh god please please please please no

Allods has decent enough under-water fighting content. it's not like it is something that would ruin the game.

but i do agree with the armor thing. it would be rather awkward to swim in that rather heavy looking armor. i think if they ever did any under-water content. they would make an expansion or DLC out of it.

[Slatervonjager]

under water fights

This is FF14, not nintendo fail era Monster Hunter where fighting underwater makes no damn sense because your gear is so damn heavy you would just sink straight to the bottom in first place.

Granted, in FF we are defying some physical laws, such as running and jumping the way we do while wearing such heavy gear, but at the same time we do take fall damage. Fighting underwater would be the dumbest thing ever, because when effects like heavy exist, and you have the green crap in toto-rak, your movement underwater should be seriously effected as well. If swimming was added, it should be more of a leisure ability to have fun with, or a new type of fishing(spear fishing anyone? I know that would make fishing more worth doing in my eyes).