Battle Formations

[Ramesses]

You know... the one battle formation style that I always wondered about for ages was the "Protection Bubble" shown since the very first FFXIV cutscene at E3 2009.

It was later shown to be used by Y'shtola in the 2010 Benchmark, used again by our favourite little female WHM Lalafell... and finally at at "full strength?" by Sensei Louisoix also in the closing cutscenes.

So question is... can we expect to have this ability in 2.0? And if yes, how does this begin to affect battle formations?

[KurtzStrife]

Well here is the scheme explaining the idea!

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Sorry about the quality of the image, but it got resized to jpeg i think. Don't know how to post with a better quality. ( if you save it to your pc, or open it in a new tab, you can read what's wrriten )

[Shurrikhan]

Well here is the scheme explaining the idea!

(Edit)

Sorry about the quality of the image, but it got resized to jpeg i think. Don't know how to post with a better quality. ( if you save it to your pc, or open it in a new tab, you can read what's wrriten )

Yep, looks fine in new tab. My favorite part is probably the melee in BATTLE Ex. backing up to give an increased tp restore rate. It gives that slightly turn-based feel of 'take a breather for a moment' before getting back full into the fight.

Still need some coding change for mobs not to simply walk through the teammates in the CONCEPT example, a change late in coming as far as I can see.

Great stuff.

[Blackpearlguy]

Well here is the scheme explaining the idea!

(Edit)

Sorry about the quality of the image, but it got resized to jpeg i think. Don't know how to post with a better quality. ( if you save it to your pc, or open it in a new tab, you can read what's wrriten )

Awesome concept definitely in my top 5 things i'd like SE to add to XIV.