Fix Ancient Magic Spells

[Aravou]

Ancient Magic is terrible in FFXIV. I long for SE to make a public statement confirming this fact and that they plan to fix it. Please, SE, give us hope and tell us this is going to change at some point.

[Albio]

I am not to rank 44 yet on CON but I am getting stressed out by what I am reading! I have noticed already though, the crappy spell animation and the pointless stats. I can only imagine the frustration with AM, so Square-Enix please fix this problem!! I will complain more once I get to rank 44 on CON!

[jeterbot]

totally agree that ranking into lvl 44 was the biggest disappointment ever! the wait time to cast is ridiculous, the animation is lame, and if the mob moves.... it misses > ugh

[Sylkis]

I propose that they switch the animations with the ones 1 tier higher (so flare has a flare II animation , fire II has a fire III animation , etc) then slowly make new animations for the highest tier.

[Aravou]

I propose that they switch the animations with the ones 1 tier higher (so flare has a flare II animation , fire II has a fire III animation , etc) then slowly make new animations for the highest tier.

Heh.. That isn't a terrible idea; however, considering the state of magic in the game upon its release and in its current incarnation I would venture to guess that the animations and visual effects for Flare II, and all higher tier magics alike, haven't even been programmed into the game yet, possibly even thought up.

It might be a better idea for SE to just do a complete redesign of the animations, visual effects, and graphical presentation for all magic spells in the game, especially Ancient Magic.

[Aulos]

They could make two kinds of animation: one for you and your party (meaning only your pt will see it), and one for everyone else (this one showed to everyone near you, but not in your pt). The first one could me some awesome mind-blowing spell animation like in FFXIII, and the second one something like we have now. This way we could have awesome animations when playing and not disturbing other players with lightnings from the sky, but they'll still see we're casting spells

[Ddj]

Nice to see my thread got so much support an attention, lets just hope some devs have noticed

[AngryNixon]

I'm glad your thread did get this much attention it's an important issue for conjurers. Whenever you cast a spell to a certain extent you ask yourself "what justifies the MP price tag on this thing?" and at 100MP the AM spells currently answer that question with "nothing".

That's fine I guess because I don't miss them not being there on a day to day basis but it's just a shame it's kind of a waste.

[Crowley]

/signed ~~~~~~~~~

[Boricua]

The delay would be acceptable if it wasn't for the average mob dying so quickly (either solo or party). My own opinion, the first tier AMs in FFXI were more exiting then this dump of all six on one ding.