Elixir Field misnamed.

[SuperZay]

It sounds good, but why monk's AOE damage skill is called like this? Elixir is 'a magical liquid that can cure illness or extend life' so it sounds more like AOE regen bubble healing skill.
In Japanese it's called 蒼気砲 which roughly translates as 'Blue Spirit Gun', not very 'monkish' either but at least it matches skill's visual appearance.

[hagare]

'Blue Spirit Gun'?
holy shit! Is that a Yuyu Hakusho reference o.O

[Toguro]

Kamehameha Splash

[Ashkendor]

Elixir is 'a magical liquid that can cure illness or extend life' so it sounds more like AOE regen bubble healing skill.

If you're trying to extend the mobs' lives, that's up to you. Me, I'm trying to turn them into gold. :3

[Fynlar]

"Elixir Field" felt like the sort of thing you'd see in FF7, not FF14. :/

[Tsukino]

Why does the localization team do anything they do? Because they wanted it that way and like their own writing a lot.

At least they didn't replace English with more different English this time, like with Defender, Invincible, Circle of Doom....

[Lusavari]

Why does the localization team do anything they do? Because they wanted it that way and like their own writing a lot.

At least they didn't replace English with more different English this time, like with Defender, Invincible, Circle of Doom....

Defender and Foresight are actually both different skills that were in the original skill set of Marauders in 1.0, back when the game first game out, and Marauder got an enmity buff by standing still... I presume this is what you're taking about. Defender had a different animation from foresight. It involved 3 pink octagonal rings spinning around the MRD for 3 seconds when the skill activated. It did the same thing as FFXI defender in that it reduced attack power and raised defense with the additional benefit of boosting enmity gain. The original flaw with MRD tanks in 1.0 though was standing still... Of course, originally, Foresight served to make the next attack 100% parried. When the classes were remodeled, Foresight became a defense boosting skill, and it wasn't until Raw Intuition that a parry skill for WAR came back. Circle of Doom and Invincible also have parallels now, but were different skills.

[Marxam]

I would have settled for "Ichiban Attack"

[Tsukino]

Defender and Foresight are actually both different skills that were in the original skill set of Marauders in 1.0, back when the game first game out, and Marauder got an enmity buff by standing still... I presume this is what you're taking about.

Nope. Defender = Defiance, Invincible = Hallowed Ground, Circle of Doom = Circle of Scorn. Japanese names have never changed.

[Brannigan]

Defender and Foresight are actually both different skills that were in the original skill set of Marauders in 1.0

Defender is still a Warrior skill... it's just called "Defiance" in English, because [insert overreaching loc team reason]. Destroyer is their offensive stance, and War Cry is the true name of Infuriate. I guess they thought English speakers would be confused by a skill that gives you the "Infuriated" status if it wasn't called Infuriate. Defender/Destroyer make a good pair. Too bad they aren't in English.

Invincible and Circle of Doom (in English) are the JP client names of Hallowed Ground/Circle of Scorn. Like, when something is just 3 kanji that sound cool in Japanese but might be weird in English ("lunatic cherry blossom" or "shippu jinrai") I understand changing it entirely, but these are English words in the JP client and stuff like "war cry" is a common term.

The worst loc team rename has got to be the White Knight and Bloody Warrior titles to Meat Shield and Meat Axe. You'll notice they didn't do this with the DRK title because they don't want to have Meat Sword as a title in the game.