Moving will be made to interrupt spellcasting at a point in time...

[DeadRiser]

Everytime Yoshi posts something like this it seems like FFXIV is the first mmo ever developed.

There are mmos with both pvp and mages that can cast while running, still a good meele can kick their asses. the pvp/kiting thing isn't an argument valid enough. Also, the whole "let's make veterans mmo players comfortable" thing sounds like a joke, as well as the "sometimes innovation is a bad thing" argument, which to me was more something like "let's just work on an safe ground so we don't screw everything up".

Tho it is a fact that the whole combat system in XIV is taking a "dynamic" route. In most of the exp parties you have to be constantly moving, in DH as a mage you're running and healing most of the time and even during the fights you have to move, Ifrit's fight is all about dodging and in Moggle's fight if you stand still you're dead.

I'm not gonna say that this is a terrible design choice since it all depends on how it is implemented and on the future skills, but IMHO it would have been much more appreciated if instead of some random talking about the mages' role in mmos that basically says nothing he spoke about how they're planning to handle current and future dynamic encounters and the inability of casting while running.




Can you guys please stop saying that everything has been already decided and can't be changed?
Remember one year ago? the whole game was already planned and it was totally different from what we are playing now and these changings started with someone's QQ.

Everything is in discussion here and our opinions do matter.

List all the MMO's that allow casting while running.

And started with someone's QQing. The game was a fail because people were actually playing it. You have not played with this yet on this game, nor have you played it with 2.0 combat and adjustments.

There is differences between opinions and whining, and all I see is whining lately with this one topic. Did you not read his long post? I'm pretty sure it's set in stone with all that he wrote.