Fan Fest announcements will determine my future in this game..

[Dualgunner]

That 1000 years war would've been a nice place for a game . Why are we in peace time when we could be involved in that war? :O

We were, we ended it lol

We only JUST reached a moment of peace. Until now we've always been involved in some struggle or another.

[Xiomara]

I hope they drop PS3 support so we can finally have Hi-Res textures. Some of the existing ones are really noticeable when it comes to how low-res they are. Also hope that the new race is more bestial rather than "Human with bits grafted on", and better integrated into the game than the Au Ra were.

[FinalWolf]

I hope they drop PS3 support so we can finally have Hi-Res textures. Some of the existing ones are really noticeable when it comes to how low-res they are. Also hope that the new race is more bestial rather than "Human with bits grafted on", and better integrated into the game than the Au Ra were.

I still believe

[Chiramu]

We were, we ended it lol

We only JUST reached a moment of peace. Until now we've always been involved in some struggle or another.

So the story writing was superior to the story writing we have now? They could at least get the old team members back on board so their ideas could help.

[Kohta]

Prepare to be disappointed lol. I think there is less than nil chance of SMN being like FFX Summoner XD.

I just want it to be something other than Egi's and effects beyond scratch PNG's and wind whisp. Even if the Summoner are half the size of the Primal's - You can't tell me it's a design choice for low end user's, when I go to Idyllshire and there are more people than any raid I have been in, Minion's everywhere, mounts and their effect's and easily twice the amount of view distance and rendering detail.

I get the argument against the summons being large and in the way in a fight, but this wasn't a problem in 11, it's not a problem in Tera with that big Wrath Thrall- he only lasts 15-20 seconds, he does serious wreckage and leaves for 5 minutes.

But I waste my time, people got triggered over the little Dark Knight aura, god forbid there is an actual primal around.

[ADVSS]

geez wolf faced people, great. Never liked Bo from Breath of Fire, never will now.

Also lets drop ps3 support, textures are the reason we have limited SERVER SIDE inventory. Textures. Thats right.

[Chiramu]

I get the argument against the summons being large and in the way in a fight, but this wasn't a problem in 11, it's not a problem in Tera with that big Wrath Thrall- he only lasts 15-20 seconds, he does serious wreckage and leaves for 5 minutes.

I wasn't arguing for SE about it lol, it's just looking at how the development team is I think this isn't even on the radar XD. I think they could do other things to make the SMN feel more like SMN then increase the size of the egis. Working on the whole skill kit for SMN would be good at getting a good feel for them over redesigning summons first.

[Chiramu]

geez wolf faced people, great. Never liked Bo from Breath of Fire, never will now.

Also lets drop ps3 support, textures are the reason we have limited SERVER SIDE inventory. Textures. Thats right.

Some people like more bestial like races though. From Bless Online, the cat people race, would be nice if FFXIV got a bestial like animal race too.

[Kohta]

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No I understand what you meant, I don't know if a kit redesign would help, as it stands, Summoner is just a different Black Mage, there is too much emphasis on the actual player to dealing the damage. The summoner, ideally, should be using weak (700-800 DPS) DoTs to build a Overdrive, the Overdrive is activated to summon a primal (Garuda Areial Blast weak LARGE AOE | Titan Earthen Fury Heavy Single Target light AoE | Ifrit Inferno - Medium Single target heavy DoT | Ramuh Judgement - Medium damage small size AoE | Leviathan Tidal Wave - Weak Large AoE/Weak long lasting DoT | Shiva Diamond Dust - Medium dmg Medium sized AoE

With the correct situational summoned ability boosting your DPS to constantly match other DPS.

[Belhi]

I think they want to do a race that they can easily adjust the model sets for an existing race to fit when it comes to making gear. If a new race is added that has a drastically different physical shape, it adds a lot of additional work to making new armour and glamour for the game. That said, some sort of more beastal race would almost certainly be a good thing for them to try and do. If we are going to have a new race we need something that stands out from what already exists and there aren't really many more features they can put on a humanlike model and still make it feel different.

As for story, again I prefer the single faction setup. Dual factions tend to end up going no where or end up very imbalanced. More to the point the Darkness faction currently are very much the bad guys so almost none of the instanced content would really be workable in a neutral framework. How would you have ended 3.0? Side with Thordian and your going to wreck half the world. Side with Nidhogg and you would wipe Ishgard off the face of the planet. Side with the Ascians and you would unleash a planet changing calamity. The story for the 'darkside' would be completely different to the light to the point that neither would be compatible even if the game setting could facilitate it.

And if you want conflict, we have it almost constantly if your paying attention. Hell we get put on team Light at the end of a meta war between Hydaelyn and Zodiark that has been going on for thousands and thousands of years, back before recorded history, and team Light is losing. We step on to the playing field in the last minutes of the game with the score 7-0 against us.