Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
This...kind of like something a real swordsman would do lol, but I guess it's not flashy or "FANTASY ENOUGH" for some >.>;
That's what I don't get about most of the people on here's opinion of this weapon skill. Because this game's graphics are so amazing and real, it can make legitimate weapon skills that still look crazy even though they fit the realism the game has while still squeezing in some pizzazz. (See: Simian Thrash, Doomspike II, Arrow Helix, Rage of Halone)

Most of the tacky tricks other lower-quality (graphically) MMOs use to make the game look better wouldn't work here. I'm also kind of surprised how much the forums flips back and forth on certain topics. First there's a general (although well deserved) disappointment in the blandness of current skills/weapons/etc. The forum cries for more "fantasy feel". A flood of nerdrage threads emerge about how <insert various negative adjectives> the Ifrit weapons were. Then it happened again with the moogle weapons. New weapon skills come out? Oh wait, they aren't flashy enough. Too bad the "flashy enough" line is so thin we'll never see it. lol

Personally, I'm really excited to see it with particle effects, I'm excited =D. What I'm not excited about is only being able to use it once in a blue moon because blocking proc rate is garbage. When I do miraculously block (usually only thanks to Aegis Boon), War Drum is up. Phalanx, my favorite skill, depressingly sits unused on the end of the action bar... likely never to see a Spirits Within combo in any real fight.