Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
Things SE is doing with FFXIV:

Modernizing it and making it appeal to a larger audience.

Things SE is not doing with FFXIV:

Bringing back FFXI's stupid engine that was exploited to hell and back by players (who sometimes thought that it was a feature, i.e. gear swapping mid-combat, spells that cast at 68% on the bar, haste shenanigans).
not sure if people corrected this but:

1) Gear swapping was part of it, if you played FFXI like you said, you knew they created gear that worked with it. there were tons of pieces that were purely meant for swapping, they constantly put out pieces that were super specific...so even if they didnt intend it to be that way...it clearly turned out that way (i didnt love it, but it wasnt an exploit)

2)the 68% cast was on purpose....its called fast cast. The more you had, the quicker it would cast. If you looked, the animation would start early, but it would not finish (do the damage/effect) until it was finished (100%).

3) Haste made complete sense, and it was desired so much for a reason, it was a powerful stat, wich most games have some stats that are more desired then others. Of course the community are the ones that too it to extremes some times.