Improvements to the Battle System - Each Monster Should Have One or More Weakness

[Dzian]

I'd need to see the specific context of that quote, because that doesn't necessarily mean 'putting elemental weaknesses back into the game.'

Regardless of the rest of the franchise XIV is still doing well. And elemental weaknesses are not something you can just slap into the game as is and call it a day without huge overhauls to several jobs.

'This enemy is weak to fire' works great in older gams where your black mage has fire, thunder and blizzard etc doing the same thing but used against different enemies to exploit weaknesses.

When your black mage is cycling through fire burst phases burning their MP and ice regen phases to get it back while throwing out lightning dots, and you need them to be both viable but also not brokenly OP to the point of not taking other dps jobs in tiers of raid encounters etc, that doesn't work so well.

oh no it doesnt refer to that specifically. the quote was from fanfest 2019 i believe..

but in general a lot of people seem to making a lot of comments about how bland and boring thigns are right now and many of the things that come up aretypically elements that are common in final fantasy games. it seems to be quite a common opinion that they need to bring some of this finalfantasy depth back in one form or another

[Bright-Flower]

oh no it doesnt refer to that specifically. the quote was from fanfest 2019 i believe..

but in general a lot of people seem to making a lot of comments about how bland and boring thigns are right now and many of the things that come up aretypically elements that are common in final fantasy games. it seems to be quite a common opinion that they need to bring some of this finalfantasy depth back in one form or another

There may be other things they can do in general to improve the game by drawing on past FF games. But elemental weaknesses is not one of them, not without huge changes to things like job design, job and raid encounter balance etc. And I'm only addressing this one topic because it's what the thread is about. There might be other ideas I'd support, but this one gets a hard nope from me considering how it would affect other aspects of the game.