Magic

[darkstarpoet1]

Read my post again. The answer lies within.

Why the hell do you people settle for less? Change is definitely needed, but removing things instead of improving them is detrimental. The spells being useless is not a favorable argument.

especially not when the argument was wrong. you can't name more than 5 spells out of each of the mage classes that were not used unless you want to count each ancient magic as one. they needed major work so nobody used them.

people are willing to take downgrades and i am not sure exactly why people think the game gets better with getting less.

[Biggs]

Because it is a wasted effort of SE to put in spells we will never use or need.

That same attitude is shared by some of us that think the holiday events they are adding to the game right now are a waste of resources at a time when they should be focusing on fixing the damn game. Truth is, in a game thats major flaw was lack of content, I don't think adding more of anything would be a bad idea at this point. Certainly I would like to see more for mages given that now their physical attack in battle is garbage. If they want to make it so mages dont even have to pull their weapons out during battle, i would love to see them have more options spell wise.

[Xianghua]

You guys are asking SE to do something they don't want to do. They dropped most the spells for a reason. It was their choice to do so. Putting all these spells back in will require them to once again change the entire system. They made their decision when They decided to remove most of the spells and need to stick with it for now. As jobs come out and level caps increases yes add more spells. but for now we are fine.

Its the same thing over and over people ask for something SE does it then people complain to have it changed back. Do you honestly think it will be any different here?

Ok lets put in 50 spells like whm had in XI. with the action bar and everything most of the spells will not be used. For them to make all the spells useful they would have to remove the action bar which once again will change the entire system.
everything is limited by the stupid action bar they put in and unless that changes the Idea of adding a ton of spells won't fit the system.

Edit: simply adding 50 spells while still only being able to use 15 at a time seems rather pointless to me.

[Rokien]

The reason being is the fights are way short. I never hardly use fire, they should take it out!~ You can't even use it during ifrit! Why even use fire when you can one shot most mobs with thunder combo? Pointless argument is pointless! Let's just stick with one spell thunder, don't add anymore eh?


OOOOH and sacrifice was never used AT ALL EVER NNOPE NEVER!

[Xianghua]

you don't understand. To put the spells back in they would have to put jobs on hold for now and spend time making and balancing the new spells. changing battles to make the new spells worth something. change the action bar to allow more slots. knowing SE change other jobs and give them more abilities. then finally do the same to jobs. Meaning they would have to change the entire battle system once again. Its not a simple as just throwing them together in putting them in the game.

Edit: With payment in 4 days. Coming out and remaking the battle system would be a good way to kill whats left of the game

[Rokien]

are you even going to sub to the game? just curious?

[Xianghua]

Yes I am. If I wasn't I really wouldn't care if they once again changed the system.

So let me ask you this. If SE came out tomorrow and said they were going to change the system once again would you sub?

[Rokien]

Yes, I even made a thread about it(me subbing that is)! ^.^http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ying-dundundun

[Xianghua]

Yes, I even made a thread about it(me subbing that is)! ^.^http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ying-dundundun

I would admire your blind faith in a company that couldn't make up their mind about where to take their game. So much that you would give them money.

[darkstarpoet1]

I would admire your blind faith in a company that couldn't make up their mind about where to take their game. So much that you would give them money.

that's exactly what they are asking us to do starting this week. pay or a year worth of service and have blind faith that 2.0 will be awesome.