Elemental Resistance: Why Even Have It?

[Pride]

So, there are a couple little things in this game that really bother me, but none quite like elemental resistance.

I can't wrap my head around this concept, it seems so half-baked. Does it have any meaningful impact on anything and if not, why even have it in the game to begin with?

The way I see it, they should either completely do away with it, or make it meaningful, yet with each new primal we get more of it.

The same could also be said about the member of the twelve we chose, or our character's birthday. If choice is to be in the game, make it an actual meaningful choice, not an arbitrary construct.

Has anyone found a practical use for elemental resistance or elemental potions?

[HumsterMKX]

Not really useful. Due to all the 1 shot moves from the various primals.

[Tam_Hawkins]

I think I've read before that someone made experiments with resistances and 1point amounts to 0,016% less dmg (but I'm not sure how credible that actually is). Eitherway elemental resistance does not Play a big role in this game, not even in fights against Bosses which only use attacks of on element (Garuda Ifrit Titan Leviathan)

[Garlyle]

It's really poorly implemented at the moment, and probably will remain so without some significant design philosophy changes.

Elemental resistance tends to work on a sliding scale: Either it's so weak that it's irrelevant and can be survived anyway, and thus people generally won't bother - or it reaches a point where it's necessary to survive things, in which case you put extra weight on players to have an entire separate set or pieces of gear just to deal with it.

Both options are valid; XIV's philosophy seems to not want players to need to carry around multiple sets of gear. But it still has the mechanics, for some reason, so it falls into the former camp, where it just sorta looks like a sloppy loose end.

[Farah]

Because it is the only valid reason to wear a bikini in Ifrit? At least that was my excuse for wearing a bikini before glamour.

[Razzle]

its just a left over from 1.0... Yoshi doesnt really want it in the game

[Rufalus]

Just made me think of FF VIII where you work your resistance to an element up so high that it actually healed you. It would be great to have that much flexibility but balance it so that having a lot of something means neglecting something else. If you think about it you are very locked down to be exactly the same as everyone else playing your class in XIV, plus or minus a bit of core stats depending on your gear level.

[Zhi]

so leviathan doesnt kill you when he dives you too much

[Corfish]

This is something that bothers me as a SMN. I will eventually have access to all elemental damage, but due to elements being worthless, it will never be worthwhile to try and match the right egi with the right battle. So long as I use the highest DPS one, I'm golden.

[NovaUltimatum]

its just a left over from 1.0... Yoshi doesnt really want it in the game

Why though? What's wrong with an elemental wheel? How do its negatives outweigh the positives?

Did Yoshi even ask the community if it should have been gotten rid of?