why during cutscene its always like this ... (small spoiler)

[anguel]

i dont know why people got blocked on the "they have to make CS for each class, each wep, each gender, each equipement, each ..........)

if i remember correctly, first time our character did something (for real), its when he used the ethereal sword to kill the ascient right ?

why not make our character kinda "summon" (or be granted by hayedelin), an etheral sword ?
like this no prob of "hey, how could a sch fight with a book huhuhu trolololo"
like so EVERY single class and character could use the same exact move, (like we did when killing the ascient)

ANYWAY, i got a pretty good idea, on what people were thinking bout this ...

[Tilgung]

The last time Hydaelyn gave us an aether blade she nearly drained herself of all of her power. The next time was made possible through an ancient aether syphoning/manupulating stone drawing a crap ton of aether from all around Mor Dhona and we still needed more aether to fuel it, resulting in a character death. And the third time required drawing aether from an object that had been accumulating aether for thousands of years.

Popping an aether blade whenever you happen to need it isn't really a thing.

[Niqote]

This topic was discussed in a similar thread and had a good conversation going (for the most part), those interested in the topic might like to peruse it.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...MSQ-Spoiler%29

[DragonSlayer45]

That means, Culinarian > All class. Kitchen Knife FTW \o/

Well somehow, a standard Kitchen Knife was the most powerful throwing weapon in FF4. More powerful than throwing an axe at someone. Video game logic.

[Kikoten]

Like we saved Nanamo for example? Yeah sure because sitting on ground and waiting Y'shtola to protect us makes us really bad arse and dangerous I'm pretty sure the WoD's trembled of fear. This is just a terrible poor development full of cheap tricks and excuses. In this part SE has a lot of work to do it seems.

No weapon. Couldn't. And being equal to or stronger than your enemies doesn't always have to mean they tremble in fear before you. Enemies often underestimate each other; I'm of the mindset that the Warrior of Light and Warrior of Darkness are equals. To me, they're the Yin and Yang, the Sun and the Moon, the Light and the Darkness.

[Averax]

This is a fantasy game, and we have people that have successfully blocked giant weapons with tiny daggers, not to mention these are magical weapons/items to begin with. I fail to see how you can't suspend disbelief on something like that.

Well if we're using the "Well it's a FANTASY" excuse then i want to ride into all my cutscenes on a flying purple hippo because it's a fantasy and there's no reason i shouldn't be able to. Just like there's apparently no reason a dusty old book or a tool used for mapping the stars wouldn't hold up against a greataxe.

[KyahAlmasy]

I understand that it's difficult to orchestrate a fight scene with our characters when we could potentially be any job, but our actions don't have to be limited our job abilities, or even spells. We could have blocked the Paladin from tackling Y'shtola, or some sort of action that isn't specified to our job. We could have even used our blessing of light to intervene. But just standing in place and letting everything happen was just so stale... and boring.

Nothing that immerses our character with their environment, or connects us to the scene. It gets boring really fast when the only thing our character is ever seen doing in a cutscene is nodding, like some wobbly head on a trucker's dashboard.

[Lone-wolfe-02]

We were compared to basically being demigods in 3.0 then get our arses handed to us, could argue that WOD is on the same level but Thancred managed to hold his own so i don't believe this.
It was a poorly done introduction of the WOD anyways.

[Savvy]

I hate my character the most out of any character in the story because no matter what, I can always expect to just be sitting in the back twiddling my thumbs like a dummy.. Hate it. Will always hate it. We could do ANYTHING and it would be more than what we've ever gotten. Run over and jump in the way? Catch someone before they fall? Block an attack? Throw rocks? Dance around to distract the enemy? It doesn't help that we're constantly reminded that we're this amazing hero.. yet we never do a thing. Ever.

[Gaddes]

Well if we're using the "Well it's a FANTASY" excuse then i want to ride into all my cutscenes on a flying purple hippo because it's a fantasy and there's no reason i shouldn't be able to. Just like there's apparently no reason a dusty old book or a tool used for mapping the stars wouldn't hold up against a greataxe.

You say that as if that's something really zany and out there, and yet we have loads of odd and fantastical mounts in game. "Flying Purple Hippo" is pretty much on the same level as many already-available mounts. But I guess it's interesting to see what arbitrary thing crosses into the "too-fantasy" zone for ya.