Marauder Achievements Thread.

[Kaisersose]

The way food works right now is about the dumbest thing i've ever seen designed. Basically punishes you the higher level stats you have. It'll get changed....eventually.

Hey Rad, i know this seems stupid at first but the food system makes perfect sense. The developers of the game designed it so that people would have a well rounded character, not an over STR stated MRD that does devastating DPS.

Proof:

FFXIV is not your average MMORPG, Obviously, it is a new breed of MMO. It was designed to be different than WoW and EQII and what ever other MMO you want to attempt to compare it to.

All the way back, BEFORE Beta, the developers of the game talked about building the game to be different when they announced the classes. The key point here was the ability to change class just by switching weapons. From this one single idea flowed FFXIV.

People then complained about stat allotment and what not so the developers let out this tad bit of information.

"Q. I allocated all of my bonus points to STR, but it did not increase my damage output nearly as much as I had hoped. Why?
A. Each attribute has an upper limit, or "cap," that rises whenever a character's class rank goes up. Therefore, even if a player allots all of his or her bonus points to a single attribute such as STR, it is not the case that this will yield overly dramatic results. Distributing bonus points across several attributes rather than concentrating on a single one will result in a much more well-balanced character.

The bonuses you gain from food are just FURTHER proof that the game was designed for everyone to build a balanced character who could play the role they need to.

another example, in the opening movie with the 3 people at the table getting leves, the hume is clearly wielding a sword and when he teles he is using a bow.

The thing is, and I AM NOT TALKING TO YOU RAD but you have me ranting now, lol. The thing is SOOO many people are ready to talk about how horrible the game is and that the game needs all this that and the other but the truth is, they just don't quite understand the game in it's entirety.

I'll stop there because i could go on forever ;-)