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  1. #11
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    JeniLinsky's Avatar
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    C'mell Cordwainer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin_Arcainess View Post
    I wonder what "Save the Queen" Would look like?
    RuPaul?

    Freddy Mercury?
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  2. #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeniLinsky View Post
    RuPaul?

    Freddy Mercury?
    Lady GaGa in the meat dress?
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  3. #13
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    Skadi Felis
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    Quote Originally Posted by QiLymePye View Post
    No. I don't want an elemental weapon with a "glow". I want an elemental weapon that by just looks, you know its elemental.
    Like I said, what you want we have already as the primal weapons

    Thunderstorm from Ramuh


    True Ice Axe from Shiva
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  4. #14
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    Odsarzol Que
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
    Like I said, what you want we have already as the primal weapons
    Technically no - It has a glow effect but that doesn't mean anything, by that logic your Brauva Nexus should be Firebased..or really any nexus weapon based on glow would be elemental based. Basically wants elemental based weapons to actually be elemental, but as a response said, it would confuse the new players. Something yoshi actually uses as an excuse.
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    Martin Arcainess
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    Quote Originally Posted by QiLymePye View Post
    No. I don't want an elemental weapon with a "glow". I want an elemental weapon that by just looks, you know its elemental. When i draw my "Flametongue", I don't need it to do "Fire" dmg or "inflict" fire...but it better at least have flames bursting from it. Doesn't have to do elemental dmg, but just look the part. I was excited when I got that MRD axe I think was called Thunder...something when i first started playing this game....equipped it...was like..that's it? at least have lightning or something just for show. If not, then don't call it that and then try to justify it by add +2 lightning resistance....no.
    I think I know which Axe your on about but since it's a lower level Axe I don't think too much thought went on it's looks so I wouldn't put too much thought onto it. But yeah Primal weapons cover the Elemental look.
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  6. #16
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    Quinton Lightblaze
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    So you want something like crafted primal weapons and Tidal Wave weapons?
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    I'm just some guy...

  7. #17
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    Coming from offline FFs, I was confused when I could use wind to kill wind elementals. My sister, who plays very few (offline) games, was confused when I could kill fire elementals with fire, and my dad, who plays only one game (the card game that comes with Windows), is definitely confused why elements doesn't matter. The excuse that an elemental wheel would be confusing seems just like saying "we didn't want to bother programming and balancing an elemental wheel so we'll blame it on newbies instead". Though pertaining to cosmetics, I agree that we need some more solid effects rather than nebulous glows.
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  8. #18
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    Skadi Felis
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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin_Arcainess View Post
    I think I know which Axe your on about but since it's a lower level Axe I don't think too much thought went on it's looks so I wouldn't put too much thought onto it. But yeah Primal weapons cover the Elemental look.
    Yes, those crafted weapons with an element in their names are old weapons from 1.x, and in 1.x they had element stats on it. Like chance to cause fire dmg or +magic potency for ice spells
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    Last edited by Felis; 12-07-2014 at 09:14 PM.

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    Flo Fyloord
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    Quote Originally Posted by QiLymePye View Post
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    Some of the primal weapons do not initially have a glow on it (Tidus, Garuda, Ifrit, Good King Moggle Mog XII., and Leeviabeetus). However, through demimateria crafting, you can add in particle effects; it'd glow and have some of the effects based on the element.

    Tidus would have a yellow/orange glow with floaty rocks,
    Garuda has a green glow with white feathers
    Ifrit has a red glow with speckles of flame
    Good King Moggle Mog XII. has the musical notes and sparkles
    Leviabeetus has the blue swirls.

    After Leviabeetus, Ramuh and Shiva weapons already have some of the glow built into it, but not necessarily particle effects.

    A thing I want to add into the elemental wheel in combat is that itd be rough to balance, espically for someone like a BLM and their current combat design. We don't want to segregate classes because they can't be effective for a specific encounter, nor do we want to have an enormous amount of buttons to press for really no good reason.
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  10. #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norna View Post
    Coming from offline FFs, I was confused when I could use wind to kill wind elementals. My sister, who plays very few (offline) games, was confused when I could kill fire elementals with fire, and my dad, who plays only one game (the card game that comes with Windows), is definitely confused why elements doesn't matter. The excuse that an elemental wheel would be confusing seems just like saying "we didn't want to bother programming and balancing an elemental wheel so we'll blame it on newbies instead". Though pertaining to cosmetics, I agree that we need some more solid effects rather than nebulous glows.
    That's not the reason they chose to remove the elemental wheel at all, it's because with BLM gameplay ( having an element being damage, the other DoT, and the last for MP regen ) it couldn't have worked with an elemental wheel, except by having each kind of spell so 3 DoTs + 3 DMG + 3 Regen spell x 6 (each element) meaning a wonderful 54 spells for the BLM instead of 9. Not counting all the issues with dmg absorb and fights where the elemental wheel would have make BLM OP.
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