dev1037 battle effects need a lot more than a resize

[Malakhim]

Now that I'm actually able to see the resize after they added a direct link to the image, I think the effect looks cooler now simply because I can see a big ass flame as opposed to a grease fire.

[Abriael]

A very small and angry playerbase!

Small, probably. As for angry, forums are never a statistical representation of a game's population.

Luckily, I would add, because if the community I find in game every day was in any way similar to the forums I would have quit long ago.

[Xatsh]

Outside the AM magic I do not think the animations of the spells on ffxiv are that bad done they just look horrible on small mobs. But on larger mob they are fairly decent looking at least on par with tier 1 and 2 from XI. I will have to see what they look like bigger, but honestly completely redesigning them seems sorta stupid to me, unless we are talking about AM.

[Lock_Hyur]

Funny colored wind (for every element just different color) with annoying sound fx is FAIL for spell animation.

[Zantetsuken]

FFXI spells were too short and rather lackluster compared to their offline counterparts. I always attributed this to hardware limitations, so it wasn't a big deal. In FFXIV the spells are toned down even more than FFXI. Perhaps Tanaka wanted to go with a more 'realistic' look with this game, but I don't think it was a good idea.

I suspect that a large-scale revamp of the magic effects is planned but won't happen until after the class system is addressed. So as others have said, this is just a small tweak to bridge the gap.

[Jynx]

While all the information is nice I still don't feel like SE is being transparant enough with us. They drop some snippits of information and we rarely hear back from about the issues we adress with them.

We hear the odd "We are looking into it" but we never hear there opinions on the matter. Maybe it's just me looking for a more personable aproach to the issue where as SE "and the Japanese player base I'm betting" prefer the cold-hard-facts kind of aproach where we don't ever get to hear.

Why they are doing something

How they feel about it

Whats down the line

Thats the stuff I'd like to hear at least once a week. The dev letters are nice but they just feel like someone is holding Yoshi-P on a leash and only letting him go so far. Break the chain Yoshi become UNLEASHED!

[viion]

Extremely sad about this, is this how it goes down at SE:

"Aww people unhappy with x content"
"MAKE IT BIGGER!"

So stupid.

[Evangela]

No matter how big AM effects are...

if I blink my eyes I'll miss it anyway

[Dubont]

Did we seriously need ANOTHER thread on this? I, as well as many in my LS, wanted a change in the spell design. What we got was a size increase. I'M FINE WITH IT!!! At least NOW, we can see our spell actually go off. The only complaints now are that 1) Spell damage is too low and 2) The animation goes away too fast.

[Malakhim]

The only complaints now are that 1) Spell damage is too low and 2) The animation goes away too fast.

1) This is probably due to the same problem that makes every other stat not do crap. Hopefully this'll be fixed when they do whatever they're doing to fix stat calculations.

2) I don't know if they're aware of this, but hopefully they are and are working on it.