I would be pretty delighted to see RDM not be a back-line Refresh bitch.
I think a good implementation would be something like XI's Dancer, sort of a melee Bard - DPS w/ support abilities.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - First Expansion, Spring 2015
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I would be pretty delighted to see RDM not be a back-line Refresh bitch.
I think a good implementation would be something like XI's Dancer, sort of a melee Bard - DPS w/ support abilities.
IonicSnake
Banned
If the bring back samurai I real hope they keep it as a dps and don't turn it into a tank.
AlphaDragoon
Member
This. Down with Samurai tanks, do it FFT style and make them DPS. They can make something else a tank instead.
IonicSnake
Banned
They could do it like they did with arcanist where you could go either healer or dps with the jobs but for samurai you have a dps and a tank choice.
And give me an Auron outfit too while you're at it, SE. I'll totally gender swap for it.
Not happening. We are deadly short on tank classes and SAM is one of the biggest candidates for that slot.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
We'll rise to heaven just to get animation locked and recieve a landslide to the face.
Oh boy, there's never enough DPS!
Bring them!
KyanMehwulfe
Member
wow so instead of just being a patch update, Coerthas is getting an entire expansion?
and the expansion is dedicated to dragons attacking a now fully realized Ishgard?
and the WoL Warrior becomes a Dragoon?
as a snowy-mountain-loving dragon-hunting Dragoon fanboy, this expansions sounds HYYYYYYYPE
and the expansion is dedicated to dragons attacking a now fully realized Ishgard?
and the WoL Warrior becomes a Dragoon?
as a snowy-mountain-loving dragon-hunting Dragoon fanboy, this expansions sounds HYYYYYYYPE
There is a shortage of tanks, but I've never bought into samurai being the answer to that. If people have seen other MMOs with rigid XI/XIV-like role systems get a dramatic shift in tank availability, post new job hype, then drop that knowledge. But people generally don't like tanking, and I don't think a reskin will change much. You have to eliminate why people don't like tanking, eliminate the need for tanking (make everyone self sustainable), or have some other satisfaction gained from tanking.
However samurai REALLY should be a 2 branch job - tank/dps. That is the perfect way to do it, and it will literally satisfy everyone.
However samurai REALLY should be a 2 branch job - tank/dps. That is the perfect way to do it, and it will literally satisfy everyone.
Rising_Hei
Member
Some things look much better already while other areas are lacking... DX11 will make it look much better than anything 1.0 had tho
It will most likely be tank since the next two jobs in the expansion will be 1 tank and 1 healer.
There were already too many DPS classes in comparison to tanks and healers and they are adding ninjas to that bloated pool soon.
SAM will Tank and it will be glorious.
Some things look much better already while other areas are lacking... DX11 will make it look much better than anything 1.0 had tho
You've never seen 1.0 maxed out then.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Most beautiful empty copy&paste land ever.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Whelp. I've been away from XIV for a long time (just no time), but it looks like I have a general time period by which I need to come back to the game.
Hype.
Hype.
I wish I wasn't a solo player with a passionate hatred for dungeons, because I so want to get into XIV. I quite enjoyed the first 20 levels or so I played the first month of release.
I can't wait to see what race and jobs will be released. I'm hoping for some great concept art!
For someone who shares the hatred, the dungeons aren't bad. They're actually pretty enjoyable. It's the raids that are bleh. I personally love FFXIV and just love it for its open world content and that kind of thing.
Curious though... Golden Saucer not teased for expansion means it's still 2.4x or 2.5 (if there is a 2.5?)
The new lands are what you should be excited about for the expansion, new classes and yeah, of course they'll expand on the world too because not everyone likes doing dungeons.
Some things look much better already while other areas are lacking... DX11 will make it look much better than anything 1.0 had tho
Oh, please. The only thing 1.0 had over 2.0 was the texture resolution... and maaaybe some better environment mapping on the reflections.
I'd like to see 1.0 shots that look better than this:
What sort of AA are you using? That IQ is so clean. It also looks like you might be using SweetFX or something. The game looks nothing like that with just default max settings.
It looks like sweetfx to me, but the screens also use the wind up sun toy to set up lighting.
1.0 is a much cleaner looking game, by design (the areas are pretty barren of detail) and by technicality, and I hope they open the engine up more for 2.0 so people with decent PCs don't have to play a blurry mess of IQ all the time.
1.0 is a much cleaner looking game, by design (the areas are pretty barren of detail) and by technicality, and I hope they open the engine up more for 2.0 so people with decent PCs don't have to play a blurry mess of IQ all the time.
Murder. She Wrote
Member
1.0 had better rock textures and some other minor details like that.
LOLCats
Banned
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VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
The keynote mentioned multiple JOBS so that means classes that don't have multiple job choices like the Arcanist will probably get some.
Riposte
Member
Is that modded at all? There's like a filter effect that's throwing me off.
Anyway, IIRC 1.0 also had better lighting for the most part. I think more than visually, 1.0 (or 1.23, w/e) had better animations (and weight to movement). I really missed that, although they changed the game is such way where it wouldn't really work.
SoraanTribal
Member
I was probably one of the few RDMs in FFXI who loved being a Refresh/Haste/Cure person, lol. I was a big fan of support classes in that game though - my mains were BRD, RDM, and PLD (more tank than support but still).
I'll admit I'm kind of cheating. I explain what I did here.
So, SweetFX + 4x SGSSAA + HBAO+. Yes, this can be kind of misleading for regular players, but I do this with all my games (where it's possible).
I really appreciate the game's dynamic lighting (LOADS of light sources in any given scene), the weather system, and the really strong performance even with a hundred players onscreen at once. 1.0 looked better in some areas, but the cost in terms of performance and area variety was really poor.
Note that it also made use of copy-pasted 'building blocks', and the side assets (like flower pots and the like) were using WAY more system resources than they should have been.
Oh, yeah, the animations! I remember now. Yes, the movement animations were way better. It's one of those things that I feel took a step back in 2.0. Their justification for getting rid of momentum ("it's in service to the gameplay") rang hollow to me, considering they could have just tuned gameplay (i.e. aoe timers) for that kind of movement.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
Are you kidding me...?
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Not sure about that but there's a GAF house on Ultros if you join the FC there.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
Kinda funny calling the FFT Samurai a DPS when it was one of that game's best tanks thanks to Bladegrasp.
I think Samurai has a very good (albeit not 100%) chance of being a tank job for a two-handed sword class. I think the ultimate intention is for every class in the game to have multiple jobs. The big thing limiting that currently is how the class/job divide is structured, and I think that is something that will change in the expansion. So I think we will see a lot of new Jobs for existing classes and new classes with multiple jobs.
So I think it is safe to assume that the class that has Samurai for one of its Jobs will also have a second Job. One is very likely to be a tank, but the other may be a DPS.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
An expansion that focuses on Dragoons?
Sqeeeeeeeeeee
Sqeeeeeeeeeee
They don't look nearly as good as 1.0... 2.0 has awful textures and really bad AA. You really never saw the game in max settings did you?
when i played, i was a member of the Ultros GAF FC. they are the probably the biggest reason i loved the game.
what i really want is my own house to tend to, a chocobo stable to work, and places to do the various non-battle jobs.
yeah.... i thought so :/
what a shame, as i have such fond memories of FFXIV...
Did they ever add a real settings systems? Haven't played on PC since PS4 version and then it was through the Vita(Remote Play)