The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Yoshi P answered this once, too lazy to find it. He basically said protect is too iconic of a skill to remove, even though they did in fact consider removing it. I agree, I think it needs to be made more useful but I dont know how and I dont think Yoshi P knows how.

Actually, Yoshida wanted to remove it. Other members of the dev team convinced him it's too iconic. Which is dumb, considering it's a cast and forget ability.

[Deceptus]

Actually, Yoshida wanted to remove it. Other members of the dev team convinced him it's too iconic. Which is dumb, considering it's a cast and forget ability.

And then you see in PVP how it works like a short Def CD and you think, This would be a PERFECT cross role ability.

[Ameela]

And then you see in PVP how it works like a short Def CD and you think, This would be a PERFECT cross role ability.

Not really, it'd just be the healer version of Rampart where it's so good there's no reason not to take it, so why even make it an option in the first place.

Speaking of, my answer to the question is Rampart as a cross-role skill.

[Stormfur]

So. Much. Seafood.

It feels like there are a million kinds of fish that you can catch, which is immersive, but useless! If you're going to give us that many fish, let us do something with them besides cook a select few.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Why do we need different raid tokens in each tier for specific item slots instead of just having a universal token for each tier and just have different quantities?

Why not make nearly all clothing items unisex. If people want to play as Dr. Frank-N-Furter let them.

Why cant we mail things between our own characters and have all characters on an account on the same world automatically share access to a house if the player has purchased one?

Why was Honeybooboo allowed to become a thing in the first place?

[Alleo]

Why do the egi still not directly obey even if we have them on obey? As far as I know I need to cast that one egi skill before I cast my Dots but its so annoying since the Egi takes such a long time to do as I say..isnt there a way to overwrite commands? So that they truly obey our commands when we click on them?

(Also why is the 1000 character limit still a thing?)

[Alaray]

Reprisal being made cross-role.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Bard and Machinist not having access to Division despite generating the highest enmity by far. Likewise, both being the only jobs entirely dependent on another (Dragoon) to increase their damage.

[Tanathya]

Bard and Machinist not having access to Division despite generating the highest enmity by far. Likewise, both being the only jobs entirely dependent on another (Dragoon) to increase their damage.

That's very debatable; their burst is high, the enmity generation overall isn't nearly as high as many other jobs. Anyway, both bard and machinist have 2 enmity-halving skills exclusive to them.

About the second part, both dark knight and paladin depend on a slashing resistance down capable job. Casters are a whole different can of worms.

[Mahrze]

Actually, Yoshida wanted to remove it. Other members of the dev team convinced him it's too iconic. Which is dumb, considering it's a cast and forget ability.

Actually, Yoshida saved it. the dev team wanted to remove it http://twinfinite.net/2017/06/ffxiv-interview-e3-2017/

Twinfinite: For all of the actions that were removed, the development team clearly believed it was for the better that they were gone. However is there a job action that you will miss or something that you maybe tried to save from being removed but were overruled?

Yoshida: The opposite was true [he successfully saved one]. The Protect spell, there were talks within the dev team that “oh we don’t want this anymore” and he (Yoshida-san) felt that as Final Fantasy you have got to have that spell [Protect]. It would be weird if we didn’t have it.

But otherwise, each of the decisions we made were very deliberate. There weren’t [situations] where Mr. Yoshida’s ideas were opposed by the development team.