FFXIV Sneak peek inside Job Weapon skills

[Coglin]

I see alot of oppertunity for more animation lock in what I see. Don't get me wrong, they look cool, but the animation lock I get now is plenty. My main reason my personal stance of a dislike of flashy moves is the lag issues from it.

I hope I am wrong, but I forsee a strong posibility for more WS lag issues and animation locks.

Again, I hope I am wrong.

[Coombah]

Howdy!

Before I leave the office for the day, figured I would give you all something to oogle and drool over for the night

This is a new sneak peak video of the weapon skills for the jobs coming in patch 1.21!

The weapon skills we showed off prior for some jobs have been tweaked a bit as well.
Hope you enjoy!

that is sexy!

[Sophia]

WHM looks awesome

[miyakai]

Can you target ifrit when he readies hellfire? Jump would be nice for that, I beat him so many times i can't remember <.<

No, you lose target when he jumps to the center and you can't target him again until after Hellfire goes off. :/

[Murugan]

No, you lose target when he jumps to the center and you can't target him again until after Hellfire goes off. :/

You can use attacks on him while he is in the air. You can't attack him while he is doing jump/dash, but you can during hellfire.

[EdenT]

Looks awesome!

It's just a little anticlimactic that none of the creatures die after these abilities...would have given the video much more impact :/

[Rokien]

I see alot of oppertunity for more animation lock in what I see. Don't get me wrong, they look cool, but the animation lock I get now is plenty. My main reason my personal stance of a dislike of flashy moves is the lag issues from it.

I hope I am wrong, but I forsee a strong posibility for more WS lag issues and animation locks.

Again, I hope I am wrong.

Lets just make an easy button for everyone. God dang, people really don't want any form of challange. If you were doing those in real life you wouldn't be able to do it and move! It's part of the game deal with it

[Gramul]

I knew those animations would look better with the effects.
Really fantastic work from the team, 素晴らしい仕事!

Hope I did that right...

[miyakai]

You can use attacks on him while he is in the air. You can't attack him while he is doing jump/dash, but you can during hellfire.

You actually can attack him while he's in the middle of doing jumps/dashes, but only with AoE attacks that don't require a target (Blizzara/Aura Pulse/Leg Sweep/etc.). Just get close enough to the center and you'll hit him since his hitbox defaults in the center during the times in which he is un-targetable.

I do it all the time to get a free combo during dashes: Hit True Strike right when he jumps as you run to safety. His hitbox will default in center facing towards whoever has hate, thus he will be behind you, lined up for a frontal hit. Right as he makes his 2nd dash, run out to the center, hit Leg Sweep to hit him again and run back to safety. Use a few buffs and get set up behind him for when he lands and use Doom Spike. Fun.

Still, you cannot target him when he jumps to center until after the server has registered Hellfire. You lose target when he does so, just like any other time he jumps. Thus, you can't hit him with any target-required ability/attack after he jumps unless you did right when he jumped and you're simply riding the server lag.

On topic, none of the current skill descriptions say the player is immune to anything while in mid-air. Elusive Jump implies it, kinda', but we don't know which this is. Doesn't necessarily look like it was triggered by an attack here.

[Buddhsie]

I see alot of oppertunity for more animation lock in what I see. Don't get me wrong, they look cool, but the animation lock I get now is plenty. My main reason my personal stance of a dislike of flashy moves is the lag issues from it.

I hope I am wrong, but I forsee a strong posibility for more WS lag issues and animation locks.

Again, I hope I am wrong.

You're one of those people who takes more than 1000 dmg as THM in an Ifrit fight huh... /comfort. Keep practicing, one day you'll learn how to deal with animation lock and avoid every single ability every single fight like me. ^_^