Multi-Weapon

[SigmaOZ]

Oh yes, the Paradigm System is overkill!...


I doubt it would break everyone's jobs because it's limited to like six slots and each slot can be one job so six jobs total to choose from in the middle of combat, the possibilities are immense!...


I agree it's on another level of gaming but it doesn't mean you have to level up all jobs, just the six you want to use, the game would become insanely fun!...

[Enla]

Kinda feels like people are reading too much into this. The trailers have always had the warrior of light changing jobs in the trailer. This kinda looked like he was being stripped of his skills and being knocked back to his ARR status as a warrior to me. Possibly just symbolism for a story point.

Also arbert, the warrior of darkness was a warrior as well. Seems foreshadowing of our need to follow in the footsteps of the warrior of darkness.

That was how I interpreted it as well. Especially since each class that he switched to had thematic value from ARR and the previous expansions. I don't think this is an actual gameplay mode so much as them thematically stripping everything the WoL has done up until this point as meaningless in a funky visual metaphor.

[Zumi]

It be cool to say set like 3 jobs you can swap between on the fly.

[Melichoir]

But as of now.
I'll say it certainly doesn't feel like a possibility of 0% to happen.

And not all jobs. Mains would definitely be more dynamic though.
Eg. Tanks would probably switch to 1 or 2 DPS classes while in OT state, then back to tank to Provoke and MT.
If they don't simplify at all... I'm drooling at the idea of playing like this. I've always loved dynamic play like this. (eg. Haseo from .hack//G.U.)

I think it could happen, just gotta see how htey implement it. It sounds cool on paper, but in practice...Hoo boy.

IF anything, I would imagine it would operate like this:
You get to select one class PER role. So One tank, 1 Healer/Support, and 1 DPS.

This would help limit some of the issues I mentioned. You wouldnt need to gear every class, and youd operate more knowing certain classes over others. It would give greater flexibility to Tanks adn Healers play wise, since there are vastly more DPS classes than Healers. It would also deal with restricting overlapping cooldowns. For example, you dont want to be able to swap to DRK, then LD, then go to PLD, then HG, then go to War and Holm. But also dont want to create a situation of allowing players to do that but restrict what skills they can use cause that would defeat the purpose of the class swap system.

But thats just speculation on my part.

[Nariel]

Is this a real thing annonced or something like that ?

In the trailer its just a scenario effect for the character, his axe from ARR trailer break, so do his lance from HW and his katana from SB don't do better so he switch to shadowy weapon as a symbol of his WoL time breaking appart and having to go WoD to fight this treat of no mesure.

[Enla]

Is this a real thing annonced or something like that ?

In the trailer its just a scenario effect for the character, his axe from ARR trailer break, so do his lance from HW and his katana don't do better so he switch to shadowy weapon as a symbol of his WoL time being break and having to go WoD to fight this treat of no mesure.

It's speculation at this point based on the visual metaphor being provided in the trailer. Until the live letter section comes out it's little more than wishful thinking. Which, mind, isn't a bad thing. Just that visual metaphors like that are pretty common place without having any gameplay feature behind them.

[Nariel]

It's speculation at this point based on the visual metaphor being provided in the trailer. Until the live letter section comes out it's little more than wishful thinking. Which, mind, isn't a bad thing. Just that visual metaphors like that are pretty common place without having any gameplay feature behind them.

Yeah, its what I was thinking.

But still, count me hyped by this trailer on a story wise point of view (the paradigm system would probably make me sight so hard my lung would break). The content don't hype me at all, but this trailer do the work just fine, I'm so eager to see where this is going and how we'll get there.

[TarynH]

I really just think it was showing the progression of the WoL from 1.0 to 5.0. As in, just a trailer, and not a demonstration of a new system.

[Kyuuen]

As much as I don't want to be the person to reign in peoples hopes and expectations, but I think you may be reading into this a bit much.

Don't get me wrong, it sounds interesting in thought, but putting this to paper and practice would become a balancing nightmare, both for the Devs and the player.

[Esp]

I think it's not a new system at all. It seems more like the trailer is just swapping through the jobs Derplander has had so far, starting with the old school archer, and going thru them all in order, and watching as each one is getting defeated.

This is probably to drive the helplessness home, showing that his current abilities and skills just aren't enough, so a new power was needed. Some say the Warrior of Light now needs to be a Warrior of Darkness now, but to me..

I think this will be a Dark Knight expansion.

So we have had Derplander being Archer in 1.0, WAR for ARR, DRG for Heavensward, and a SAM for Stormblood. Now, it's DRKs turn.