Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

[Dano]

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The original cross class skills offered too much freedom and thus was unbalance, many wanted the game to have more focused roles and party content, which resulted in the creation of Jobs, which is exactly want XI players wanted.


Reading chat logs, this is an age old design, it was done so because of limitation in UI back then, (I remember counting shadow images in XI, it was cool but it's outdated and should be done with). Now you can see what the monster is casting easily from the UI or by watching its animation, which is essential if you want to enable fast pace gameplay. If you want some serious dodging challenge then try out Ultima hard mode, Extremes, Coil Turn 2..etc. It takes more than reading a couple lines of log to be successful in those content.

There are slashing, blunt and piercing resistance in the game, it's actually utilized in Turn 2 of coil, you get to choose which nodes to kill to enable and disable a certain type of resistance. That said, there hasn't been many content surrounding these features but i believe it'll be more varied in the future.

Elemental resistance was done away but in turn the BLM's role in this game is AoE damage and control, I don't see it as being a loss, it's just a different coat of paint.

[Ri_ri]

Now you can see what the monster is casting easily from the UI or by watching its animation, which is essential if you want to enable fast pace gameplay.

This is the main problem I have with FFXIV... it being fast is so frustrating to me.

Moving all the time, the "tank killer" move being computed before my healing, using coolowns and them not taking effect, being killed in AoE because I didn't pre-move, getting delayed information which coupled with the delay in animation makes interrupting a hell...

I'd rather revert to log reading. The system can't support this kind of gameplay.