dev1037 battle effects need a lot more than a resize

[Anathiel]

in all fairness they said they were rehauling the battle system, what if making the effects bigger is just the first step, shouldn't we be excited theuyre beginning?

[BelgianRofl]

in all fairness they said they were rehauling the battle system, what if making the effects bigger is just the first step, shouldn't we be excited theuyre beginning?

Many of us share the same point as you, we're just asking for an answer to that question.

[Anathiel]

Many of us share the same point as you, we're just asking for an answer to that question.

Now I'm not white knighting here just being a realist, they're 14 hours ahead of us. When that was posted it was evening in japan right? So we probably wouldn't get an answer until tomorrow morning at the earliest. So instead of everybody screaming omfg why are they just doing that? They didn't post it in a question form. Let me start:

Dear Mr. Moderator can you please clarify if this is all the Dev Team plans on doing for battle animations? Or can we expect more changes in the future?

[gifthorse]

Magic and attacks in FFXIV are just generally worthless.

Why does everything pretty much do the same thing? Blizzard, Fire, Thunder, Water etc etc. They all just do the same stupid thing but with different elemental stats.

Everything in FFXIV battle system is about stats - balancing math and stats.

Changing animations is only half the problem, the biggest factor is changing what spells actually do.

[Corrderio]

Magic and attacks in FFXIV are just generally worthless.

Why does everything pretty much do the same thing? Blizzard, Fire, Thunder, Water etc etc. They all just do the same stupid thing but with different elemental stats.

Everything in FFXIV battle system is about stats - balancing math and stats.

Changing animations is only half the problem, the biggest factor is changing what spells actually do.

And battle adjustments are over the horizon.

[gifthorse]

And battle adjustments are over the horizon.

Yeah auto-attack so we can keep our DPS up while doing some math equations on the side to make sure our DPS stays up.

Sounds really promising.

[Corrderio]

Yeah auto-attack so we can keep our DPS up while doing some math equations on the side to make sure our DPS stays up.

Sounds really promising.

And you think that took them all this time? umad?

[gifthorse]

And you think that took them all this time? umad?

"Umad?" Is that all you can say?

So original.

Anyway, SE is notorious for working as slow as humanly possible so I wouldn't be surprised if the battle system was what I predicted. And it takes more than three months to make a good battle system even for a talented design team.

[solracht]

Yeah auto-attack so we can keep our DPS up while doing some math equations on the side to make sure our DPS stays up.

Sounds really promising.

calculator was in fft so thats ok by me. everyone loved fft

amidoinitrite

[gifthorse]

calculator was in fft so thats ok by me. everyone loved fft

amidoinitrite

idonseewatudidthere sorry