Elemental Resistance: Why Even Have It?

[TomTom1968]

No clue what the original intention was. As soon as you hit Level 50, 100% of the Gear (crafted items left aside) you get in dungeons or can exchange for tokens has no slots for any Materia anyways. And even below Level 50, there is no real purpouse. Stack yourself with Earth resistance in Titan HM or Wind Resistance for Garuda HM and you will still die because of the amount of Damage you receive. The reduction of damage is so low that it can't be taken into account. Only purpouse of Elemental Resistance right now is to use them for spirit bonding.

[Sadana]

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

The first part would be my guess as well. I'm not familiar with any interview where Yoshi said he wouldn't use it; anyone know of one? I kind of wonder if elemental stuff was taken out for the same reason we have Fire 2 instead of Fira (for example), American players wouldn't "get it". /rollseyes

[NovaUltimatum]

The first part would be my guess as well. I'm not familiar with any interview where Yoshi said he wouldn't use it; anyone know of one? I kind of wonder if elemental stuff was taken out for the same reason we have Fire 2 instead of Fira (for example), American players wouldn't "get it". /rollseyes

Ok I did a quick google search and found this:

Will the battle system ever include some sort of elemental weakness wheel? I don't like killing a fire element using fire. This will help with some of the "bland" battle system complaints.
Already addressed in live letter. Yoshida says it's better to make all classes viable for all content rather than exclude or prioritize classes for each fight.

http://avalanchegroup.enjin.com/foru...ready-answered

[Razzle]

I don't have a quote but I remember YoshiP saying something about him not wanting specific jobs with specific elementals to have more advantage on certain fights and thus exclude the other DPS jobs. (which is what happened in 1.0 on primal fights for example)

[necrosis]

Why though?

Because they wanted to dumb the game down in every way possible.

Elemental wheel was probably the first to go.

[Garlyle]

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

In analysis I'm not even sure there's a positive.

If you want players to target an elemental weakness, you end up with
1. Characters are now forced to carry more gear to be 'properly equipped' for encounters, forcing a lot more farming. (There is an argument though that this is a positive for things like reducing content obsoletion, but this is distinctly not the philosophy XIV takes)
2. Classes spontaneously have various tools restricted from them in fights simply because they're not the right element.
3. Classes that do play the elemental game and avoid 2... now have six functionally identical spells that aren't actually adding any gameplay because you're using the same one over and over and ignoring the others, creating unnecessarily clogged skill lists.

It's not even a 'smart' thing. It doesn't take intelligence to pick which spell to use, just foreknowledge of which one's most effective. The only time it might get interesting is bosses which rely on changing elements, which has heavy impact on other classes in the process.

[Felis]

Ok I did a quick google search and found this:

This is about elemental wheel, but we discuss about elemental resistances.

"This enemy is ice element, attack it with fire for more damage and don't attack with wind" - elemental wheel
"This enemy is strong against fire, attack with all what you have but not with fire" - elemental resistances

During beta Yoshida wrote why he think that elemental resistances is better than a whole elemental wheel

[NovaUltimatum]

This is about elemental wheel, but we discuss about elemental resistances.

"This enemy is ice element, attack it with fire for more damage and don't attack with wind" - elemental wheel
"This enemy is strong against fire, attack with all what you have but not with fire" - elemental resistances

During beta Yoshida wrote why he think that elemental resistances is better than a whole elemental wheel

The in-game elemental resistances don't quite work that way, it's player defence only, not enemy defence that counts. I bring up elemental wheels because it's related to elemental defences in general.

[Magis]

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?

I think a lot of it is just carry overs from 1.0.

[Parodine]

It makes BLM's Apoctastasis feel even more useless then. They couldn't think of a real ability?