Comments from the Devs

[miokomioko]

Yoshi said earlier that magitek is only a mount, and will not be used in battle.

The last thing I can find that he specifically said about them is:

"Unfortunately, we currently do not have plans for the Magitek armor to be usable in battle. However, we may treat this particular mount in a special way."

Decipher that however you like, but I'm almost certain they later said something like "we'll take that into consideration" or "I'll bring that back to Japan" or something along those lines to a similar question.

[jwang]

I'd love for another Ulduar raid. That was one of the most fun thing ever, what with the challenges you imposed on yourself for better loot. The only bad implementation for it was the 10/25 split with different loot tables. That was just lame.

[Hiruke]

I don't know what's so horrible about using them in battle, since its already known that you'll be able to fight alongside your chocobo. Its not like you'll be able to drag them into any raids with you (except any they make that, you know, focus on riding around in magitek), and open field mobs are trash as it is. Besides, it doesn't seem like you could use many of your own abilities while riding in that thing, so the chances of it being too horribly unbalanced aren't that good. I doubt anyone would want to full time fight in that thing. Just every once in a while blow up some lowbie stuff with it for the lulz.

[Eagleheart]

Ain't a damn thing OFish about dreaming about Magitek armor being used in battle.

ARR is shaping up to be a nostalgia bomb, aimed at fans of a long-running series with a lot of IP behind it. If you think that fans going berserk over some particularly flavorful ideas from past games indicates some kinda retardation a la Rokien (o.O ) then you are probably wound a little too tight.

Bring on the friggin' hangar bay raid, I say.

[Lucavi]

I don't know what's so horrible about using them in battle, since its already known that you'll be able to fight alongside your chocobo. Its not like you'll be able to drag them into any raids with you (except any they make that, you know, focus on riding around in magitek), and open field mobs are trash as it is. Besides, it doesn't seem like you could use many of your own abilities while riding in that thing, so the chances of it being too horribly unbalanced aren't that good. I doubt anyone would want to full time fight in that thing. Just every once in a while blow up some lowbie stuff with it for the lulz.

Because apparently its some new viral trend to post the tired "sure is OF in here, BG" nonsense. And most of it is by a bunch of sub 100-post posters. Go figure.

Hint: There's nothing wrong with using them in battle for a specific event or raid. One of Yoshi's biggest MMORPG influences used them extremely effectively in various areas of the game, and Yoshi knows it. If the game picks up, I wouldn't doubt for a moment that we'd see something similar in some expansion pack's raid, once they've got enough of the games systems flowing comfortably enough to focus on that type of work.

[miokomioko]

When people post shit like this and aren't laughed out the door, you can say it's "OF" in here:

In short, if this game is a "crafting game" why not make a difficult robot/Magitek Armor that you can ride around in and do pvp. with the popularity of Transformers i think it would be huge! Im thinking Xenogears with the option to merge with other players to form larger "Magiteks" with Poweranger like cut scenes. However i think the ability to use them should be difficult, be limited to certain areas, and should have sick music when operating it.

[Takiwaki]

wow that quote...

[Lucavi]

Yeah. That's OF-level. New people around here just like to throw buzzwords around as if it gives them some semblance of forum respect or something.

[Sephiroth]

Oh come on, we'd all love to grind crabs for countless hours with our magitek megazords.

[Ratatapa]

I still want my pew pew sound

[Wulfgang]

When people post shit like this and aren't laughed out the door, you can say it's "OF" in here:

Hahaha that idea is so bad, that it actually crosses the threshold back into good again.

[Don Katsu]

Shit I just noticed the road map said "Subject to Change"

Incoming 6 week Phase 1

then they are going extend Phase 2

and move all our characters to Gridania for Phase 3 <.<

/troll

[Enygma55]

Phase 1 is pretty fleshed out as it is now. Phase 2 is pretty much the same with a few minor additions like gamepad support. These 2 phases are the most likely to stay on schedule.

Phase 3 is where the real beta starts and that timeline is subject to change the most.

[Takiwaki]

Hmm I wonder why they never added any kind of charge attacks to the game, do you think its a good idea?

[Enygma55]

For players or for enemies?

It might be apart of the limitbreak system.

Just messed with the search function. O man this thing is amazing. Solves everyones problems with search once people know how to use it properly ofcourse.

[Takiwaki]

For players or for enemies?

It might be apart of the limitbreak system.

For players, Limit break system, hmm I don't know how that will work though lol

[Gulkeeva]

Never liked the charge idea, if I recall tera had a charge like attach... so your say in a Hardmode instance and charging your best attack... to avoid stuff, you may be holding say 1 to charge your attack q + w to strafe+dodge, and then you may be randomly pressing spacebar to jump over some obstacle while holding all the other keys down, and then pressing ~ or whatever down to talk in vent at the same time, and then another key for pots maybe.

If you have a normal everyday keyboard, you most likely just "locked" yourself and possibly stopped moving/making other keys unresponsive as the limit of keys pressed down is like 3-4 (unless you got a gamer keyboard). I had to get a gamer keyboard since I've been pressing up to like 6-7 keys at once to do stuff all at the same time >.>

[Takiwaki]

Yep agreed but since 14 is not as action based as Tera or even close, and a bit slower paced, I do not see why it can't work since you wont be strafing or dodging etc.

[brozy]

When you said charge attack i thought of warriors in WoW lol but then i remember that monk kind already has that kind thing if i remember right, as for a charging attack they could always have it where you press it once to start charging and again to fire it off while having a gauge or something to show the power level, can fire it off anytime when its building but would start losing its chargeyness once capped to prevent pressing it and not bothering to pay attention, that way it if you don't have a gamer keyboard your not gonna have the problem of key presses not getting recognised if you need to move and shit

[Churchill]

Yep agreed but since 14 is not as action based as Tera or even close, and a bit slower paced, I do not see why it can't work since you wont be strafing or dodging etc.

oh god the level of boring this game will be if you aren't strafing or dodging