New Items and Balances to Synthesis (11/16/2010)

[Gadritan]

In FFXI it was nice that you could lvl it fast because you only have to click and pray

Not to mention, you have a pretty good idea how much SP each synth is going to give you, and the xp is great from it. It's one of the few consistencies in the game atm.

[ZarakiKujata]

all the items but the shield is a reskin, theres bardiches like that in game already.

[Spider-Dan]

This article reads more like an FFXI article than an FF14 one; some specifics would be nice. It's not like you're going to ruin the (non-existent) economy.

[Lucavi]

Items are typically always reskins when delivered during the middle of the game. Typically the only time you see brand new models is at the beginning of expansions.

Take CoP, for example. Barone (a new model) launched at the beginning of CoP, and at the end (sea), we got our hands on Homam (a reskin of barone).

[miokomioko]

The memory usage they are saving by having items basically just have new textures + bump maps is big, but in the long run it doesn't change much outside of update sizes and such.

[Magos]

Guess you'd rather just click a button and pray for a .1 skill up and that the synth succeeds.

Isn't that what they did to exp in FFXIV? >_> Looks to me like the just reversed synthing and exping when translating from XI to XIV: instead of crafting giving random-ass skillups, now leveling gives you fairly random rank points; instead of each battle giving you a set amount of exp, each successful synthesis gets you a fixed amount of exp.

[Gadritan]

lol, yeah. That's why I've barely lvled any sort of DoW/M yet.