[dev1206] The effects of Protect and Shell have been made mutually exclusive

[Kiote]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...558#post479558


Told you so, 10 pages ago.

That is a horrible design decision that only makes this issue worse.

There is no reason for Protect and Shell, fundamental spells in the FF series, to be bastardized like this. There is especially no reason for making a Medicine overwrite a Buff. That is stupid beyond belief.

I don't know what games Yoshida played when he thought he was playing Final Fantasy, but his claim of trying to give this game more of a Final Fantasy feel is being blatantly thrown out the window. This joke is just one more proof of that.

Spell names and effects are one of the few things in the series that have always been constant. Yes, sometimes There was no protect and shell. Sometime there was Wall and Barrier. But they were not the same spells. They had different effects.

You can not make a game feel like a Final Fantasy by doing everything the exact opposite way a Final Fantasy Game would.

[Answa]

That is a horrible design decision that only makes this issue worse.

There is no reason for Protect and Shell, fundamental spells in the FF series, to be bastardized like this. There is especially no reason for making a Medicine overwrite a Buff. That is stupid beyond belief.

I don't know what games Yoshida played when he thought he was playing Final Fantasy, but his claim of trying to give this game more of a Final Fantasy feel is being blatantly thrown out the window. This joke is just one more proof of that.

Spell names and effects are one of the few things in the series that have always been constant. Yes, sometimes There was no protect and shell. Sometime there was Wall and Barrier. But they were not the same spells. They had different effects.

You can not make a game feel like a Final Fantasy by doing everything the exact opposite way a Final Fantasy Game would.

You do realize, as has been pointed out time and time again here, that CNJ will get a trait marrying Protect and Shell into the same spell?