With patch 2.4, Dragoons lost the ability to do Elusive Jump, as in actually jump. Now they are glued to the ground in the same boring way as Shukuchi and Repelling Shot, and is now more of an Elusive Slide more than an actual Jump.
Why the change?
- Dragoons would see the move as useless because it would occasionally kill careless Dragoons, having them jump off of the arena. Titan and Leviathan comes to mind.
- In Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, there is a fun part that is sadly often missed out on, which is exploring different areas by jumping. Most of these jumps led to amazing views of the areas, and some jumps even led to exploration of areas untrodden.
This started a small community (Noborist) that has grown.
Noborists are basically Explorers, people who try to find amazing views in the game.
We would like to see a new "Exploration Jump", or that Square Enix reverses the changes to Elusive Jump. We do understand that Elusive Jump was intended as an evasion ability, and that the jumping part wasn't actually intended on causing the issues that it did, so... if not reversing Elusive Jump back as it was in 2.3, add a new jump with the same properties as Elusive Jump had. I hope that Square Enix will come to its senses and realize that exploring in the game (as long as it isn't actually breaking the game in any severe way) is something that shouldn't be punishable, but encouraged.
These, are the real jumping puzzles.
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