Thread: DualShocker Interview - 3.5 pt 2 next week, supposedly

Originally Posted by Ririta

Talking about =/= showing footage

Why doesn't Ala Mhigo have its own housing plots?

Uh... well, to be fair, it's not like we're rolling in housing patches. Ishgard doesn't even have one and Shirogane makes the most sense out of the two areas to actually land the new zone.


As for Tanking, what about making the stun potency of Tanks rise above that of your standard DPS? Aside from how obnoxious it is to meet with a stun resistance of an AoE you actually wanted to avoid because the DPS were weaving their own stuns into their damage rotations, I think it wouldn't do any harm to assure Tanks that they can output their stuns without having to worry about other party members.... and then build on that.

For instance, Paladins could perhaps have the ability to use a conal/AoE stun under certain circumstances - perhaps involving Shield Swipe as part of a combo. This in turn could be used to cancel the casts of a number of trash you are dealing with in certain raids and could even go as far giving you a non-cleansable damage and enmity debuff in exchange, something that takes the focus away from DPS and back toward utility while deterring people from using it when it's not necessary. Naturally, some homogenization is likely needed so no job is left out but perhaps having varying effects would at least help. Dark Knight, for instance, could have high potency, AoE slow mixed in with a combo involving their Abyssal Drain. The enemy's cast won't be cancelled so it remains a threat, but it awards time for DPS to be focused and achieve the same end.

In addition, mechanics could be weaved more in line with the skills available to tanks as opposed to simply interacting with things or standing on X. Imagine being able to throw trash from the arena to their deaths or into certain AoEs like the Titan landslide as opposed to outright killing them, but arranging the fight in such a way that you can't simply turn that into an 'always' mechanic, but something you can quickly react to if and when the situation happens to present itself. How about Warrior being able to bleed their own HP in exchange for regenerating party members who are dangerously close to death? Or Dark Knights being able trade places with someone who just died in an attempt to rescue a worrying situation, trading off for a permanent damage and/or HP reduction if they themselves are revived by a healer.

I'm not really good with this sort of thing but these were the random ideas that popped into my head.