Thread: 4.0 Swimming

Originally Posted by Jpec07

*has flashbacks to Vashj'ir*

OHGODNO

This was the worst wow zone ever. A lot of people ended up skipping this area. The zone is huge of course, your player character swims so slow unless you were a druid who could become a orca/seel or had a underwater mount. You always had to use a mount and had to deal with a oxygen bar.

If FFXIV included swimming in 4.0 I will probably do my best to avoid the areas that require swimming. If it's all zones and if implementation is bad then i know for sure my gatherers will never get past level 60 lol....games try to make the underwater combat and travel meaningful but it almost never works out...

I will be happy if there is no oxygen bars and the enemies were fixed to the sea floor or sea plateaus than free swimming creatures so we have to "land" on the sea floor to enage them. Also SE would probably give everyone a starter swimming mount at the start. If swimming is like this then I'm good lol

Originally Posted by AureliusDraconium

This was the worst wow zone ever. A lot of people ended up skipping this area. The zone is huge of course, your player character swims so slow unless you were a druid who could become a orca/seel or had a underwater mount. You always had to use a mount and had to deal with a oxygen bar.

Umh... You get rid of the oxygen bar during the first few quests... Like the first 3 quests or so out of over 100. And you get a fast underwater mount within an hour in the zone AND you have accelerated speed while running on the sea floor. I leveled there when it first came out and I don't remember anything being difficult or annoying.

Sea Legs
Unlimited range
Instant
Grants water breathing and increases sea floor movement speed by 60% while in Vashj'ir.

Originally Posted by AureliusDraconium

This was the worst wow zone ever. A lot of people ended up skipping this area. The zone is huge of course, your player character swims so slow unless you were a druid who could become a orca/seel or had a underwater mount. You always had to use a mount and had to deal with a oxygen bar.

I really enjoyed Vashj'ir so it's really about differing opinions. I was playing when it launched and the server I was on at the time a lot of people seemed to like Vashj'ir so unless you have something somewhere that shows a lot of people skipped it I didn't see it on my server and I even leveled multiple alts through it too (there were always a lot of other players around).

Like another poster said after the first 2-3 quests you unlock a passive ability that works within Vashj'ir and you never had an oxygen bar again and you had increased movement (They also very often gave you a free sea horse mount until you finished up to a certain part of the quests and got the mount permanently). So it seems to me since you didn't know that you didn't actually try Vashj'ir long enough to experience it properly.

Originally Posted by Lumina

The only frustration I would have with this being added would be the same as I had for flying, they'd need to come up with some ridiculous lore reason as to why you could only swim in the 4.0 areas and not 2.0 and 3.0 series areas to explain away not wanting going back to update all areas for it.

Yeah, that is one thing I am also worried about. If they add swimming I want it to be all areas even old 2.0 areas not only in the new zones; within reason anyway I kinda understand certain places like Coerthas and not allowing swimming in the freezing ice water I could let that slide.

Originally Posted by IzVale

Yah, and then this happens

I uh....whut? Sorry I don't get it lol is that like...nah nevermind I really don't know what I am looking at in that picture at all O.o

Originally Posted by Miste

I uh....whut? Sorry I don't get it lol is that like...nah nevermind I really don't know what I am looking at in that picture at all O.o

Its a manatee that ran into a glass wall while swimming. He was conveying all the time we'd try to swim to some random place and run into our invisible walls.

Originally Posted by Zantitrach

Its a manatee that ran into a glass wall while swimming. He was conveying all the time we'd try to swim to some random place and run into our invisible walls.

i just want SE to put swimming so we can have THIS ingame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXeg8trB8L8

is a masterpiece :3