Primal Battle, Ifrit Loot

[Arcell]

Posted this in the other thread, feel it fits here too:

I would honestly expect nothing less from weapons obtained from essentially the God of Fire. The weapons glow like an ember, that's pretty tame IMO. The only other way to really convey fire would be to physically set the weapons ablaze, I think this is the better approach. If the effects were any more subtle then they would be quite dim and would just essentially be black weapons.

The current equipment is far too bland for my tastes. I always justified it as being the base equipment and essentially just what they're throwing at us until the cool stuff comes up. I was pretty disappointed with Flametongue being just a normal sword, it should have had some kind of indication of its namesake, you know like how it is traditionally in FF. Excusing the current gear's bland look as "artistic direction" is a pretty lame excuse. The gear we have now is recycled over and over and occasionally changed slightly. Going back to Flametongue, it's just a slightly modified version of another sword we currently have.

The game needs more unique looking gear, and if that means the weapons from the God of Fire have an ember glow, I'm okay with that. The weapons should convey the power and look of the boss they come from.

[syntaxlies]

About the "Hard mode", it might be a raid AFTER you beat the main scenario mission. I think it can be compared to the 3 tiers of FFXi prime fights...one made for solo, one for party and one for alliance...might be the same here...a pretty easy fight at main scenario quest that would unlock the "real" fight...most likely FFXI Diabolos fight.

i think its safe to say it wont be too hard for story mode reason(gotta cater to the casual, and it should for story mode). so hardcore im thinking would be after story-mode.

[Gramul]

Everything is subject to change at this point. They probably released the video just to get feedback before releaseing .

The patch is released in a week.
That's not enough time to go through and redesign every drop.

As much as I don't care for the look, I can live with it and appreciate the fact that it could be much worse.

[Rentahamster]

Very nice.

Do want.

[syntaxlies]

The patch is released in a week.
That's not enough time to go through and redesign every drop.

As much as I don't care for the look, I can live with it and appreciate the fact that it could be much worse.

they could adjust the scale though.

[Gramul]

they could adjust the scale though.

That's true. And who knows, I might eventually warm up to these things.

[syntaxlies]

That's true. And who knows, I might eventually warm up to these things.

i dont mind the size of the except the pug weapon is a bad shape i think. im also jealous or the con staff as the thm one suck imo.

[Esk]

Hmm... I didn't know about FFXI having solo > group > alliance style unlock..
Guess if its just for loot after the story/solo part saves me going again, unless i'm forced to have that bow for specific things later on.

edit: (copy from my other post)
- Glow is ok cos its only when active and not to OTT.
- Lancer weapon looks good it actually has the look of other lances just Fancier..
- All others need to be smaller/less Fat to fit with the style of the game.
(An Seriously with the bow and Pug weapons ... Epic Fail on the chunkiness length is ok I think maybe..! )
- As long as we dont go the way of the huge shoulder pads next its not too bad.

[Konachibi]

That's true. And who knows, I might eventually warm up to these things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Sxi5GklT0

[syntaxlies]

i forgot to mention, i hope they do some random fire damage burst or something and they aren't just for looks. maybe a dot "burn"