Quote Originally Posted by Xmbei View Post
I think what he means by weather will have major impressions in the future is...

Sandstorm is occuring in Thanalan, and there is a large scale besiege-like event happens with empire/beastman tribes marching to the city and they are using the weather to cover their movements. Such so that you can not see them in the feild/their number's in a distance and the movement patterns they are using to come to the city and you have to run around "blind" to find them. I could be wrong, definately speculating. I think that is what they mean by weather will be very important in the future. If you could just turn off the weather you would see people going, "Oh I turned off the weather effects and they are flanking us from the west!!! Everyone go west, we need to stop them before they reach the city!!!"
I'm impressed. I was very hard-pressed to figure out a situation that would conform to the dev response, and that not only fits, it sounds cool. Well done, and that sounds pretty awesome. Way better than "Oh, weather's out, better start watching out for water elementals".
Quote Originally Posted by Benji View Post
I feel like this problem is going to be resolved when 1.18 rolls around. Tons of game optimization incoming, right?
Only if you get your hopes up. I'm not setting myself up for that disappointment.