Abolishing Anima

[XooZQ]

Ah, but the those teleports were very restrictive. There were only five specific points in the world where you could teleport to, and only white mages of a certain level or higher were able to cast those spells. The teleport spells of FFXI were a different animal than the aetheryte system of FFXIV.

Good point. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are 5 major regions of Eorzea, right? Why not give us that option? And giving all classes the ability to teleport at a high rank, say 45, would that work? What if we just had free ports and a cooldown of 1 hour or something? Most places you go in this game will take at least that to complete what you intend to do once you've arrived.

[TheVedis]

There must be checks and balances to every system which gives an advantage

instant teleporting is one of them, it needs anima to keep it from being broken

its like a death penalty in its own way


anima is a good thing, you also have the option to run whereveer you want if you have to manage it more


and as to making it a spell, it wasnt done that way on purpose, the entire idea was to not limit it to a single class, but to make it open to everyone

[captainpicard]

There must be checks and balances to every system which gives an advantage

instant teleporting is one of them, it needs anima to keep it from being broken

its like a death penalty in its own way


anima is a good thing, you also have the option to run whereveer you want if you have to manage it more


and as to making it a spell, it wasnt done that way on purpose, the entire idea was to not limit it to a single class, but to make it open to everyone

A pugilist cast raise on me yesterday... so in short, your comment makes no sense.

[TheVedis]

A pugilist cast raise on me yesterday... so in short, your comment makes no sense.

yes, he cast ghetto raise on you, the real raise is conj only and rank 50

but lets just say it makes it so your not FORCED to rank up the class that has the ability in order to take advantage of it, which is something alot of people appreciate, and several people hate at the same time.

in the end there is NOTHING wrong with the current system and some people want to complain just to complain(your suggestion is 10 times more valid then the remove the anima cost and make it all free opinion some here have though)

but its been stated officialy why it wasnt like that several times around launch, and it still holds true to why we dont have it on a single class

[XooZQ]

There must be checks and balances to every system which gives an advantage

instant teleporting is one of them, it needs anima to keep it from being broken

its like a death penalty in its own way


anima is a good thing, you also have the option to run whereveer you want if you have to manage it more


and as to making it a spell, it wasnt done that way on purpose, the entire idea was to not limit it to a single class, but to make it open to everyone

What are the negative side-effects of being able to teleport when you want or need to? Do you have a link where I can read for myself the reasons for anima cost?

[Betelgeuzah]

Anima will be more readily available once you're not forced to use it to get anywhere.

Rented mounts in 1.19 will be followed by personal mounts a bit later.

There is no reason to abolish anything if the problem only persists for a limited time, and affects only a small handful of people currently playing.

[XooZQ]

Anima will be more readily available once you're not forced to use it to get anywhere.

Rented mounts in 1.19 will be followed by personal mounts a bit later.

There is no reason to abolish anything if the problem only persists for a limited time, and affects only a small handful of people currently playing.

Do we know when 1.19 is coming around? What is the reason for not allowing us a ever-reliable means of practical transportation now instead of later? How many is a small handful?

[Betelgeuzah]

Do we know when 1.19 is coming around? What is the reason for not allowing us a ever-reliable means of practical transportation now instead of later? How many is a small handful?

You can't take away something that you've added before without a huge QQ-fest. It doesn't work that way.

If they wanted to make a hub-based instance game where you only teleport to the locations directly they should have done that from the beginning. It's an MMO, thus an open world game at core, and that's not going to change. Turning it into a pseudo-online rpg is not going to help anything.

How many people are playing nowadays? Theres your small handful.

[XooZQ]

You can't take away something that you've added before without a huge QQ-fest. It doesn't work that way.

If they wanted to make a hub-based instance game where you only teleport to the locations directly they should have done that from the beginning. It's an MMO, thus an open world game at core, and that's not going to change. Turning it into a pseudo-online rpg is not going to help anything.

How many people are playing nowadays? Theres your small handful.

There's a lot of things they should have done differently from the beginning. I just don't understand why people would complain about being given the freedom of teleporting where you need to go, when you need to go. Many times I've stood in a group of party members and everyone's like, "OK, how much anima do you have?" or "Who wants to teleport"? That to me says that people are being made to fear what doesn't have to be an issue.

[Betelgeuzah]

There's a lot of things they should have done differently from the beginning. I just don't understand why people would complain about being given the freedom of teleporting where you need to go, when you need to go. Many times I've stood in a group of party members and everyone's like, "OK, how much anima do you have?" or "Who wants to teleport"? That to me says that people are being made to fear what doesn't have to be an issue.

It makes everything outside the hubs meaningless. There is no longer a world; there are only hubs you teleport to.

If you want the ultimately convenient experience, you chose the wrong genre. Go play Diablo, Monster Hunter or Phantasy Star instead. There is nothing more convenient than them. They're also not MMORPG's. They're online RPG's.

Playing in a world that mimics real life means inconveniences. That's the trade-off. You are forced to interact with other people, forced to use means of travel to get where you want to go. That's what makes this world what it is, and Eorzea what it is- or hopes to be. If you don't think not having to interact with anyone or having to travel the world doesn't somehow cheapen the experience, I don't know in what world you're living in.

The society has turned into an individualized one where you can do quite many things without.a need for any human interaction. Are we better off like this? Lets add teleporting to the mix and see what happens to us. I wouldn't like that kind of future, even if it meant ultimate convenience; no need to wait, to socialize, to make bonds.