Video Preview New Weponskills

[Niiro]

Obviously.

Snark aside, they look great, but it doesn't matter how good they look if they do crap damage.

AND WHY THE FUCK DON'T GALKAS GET TO DO FUCKING FLIPS!?

Racists.

Worth pointing that the pole arm one looks very similar to XIV's chaos thrust with a doomspike at the end.

kekeke

[Guyverarmor]

Machine Gun.

They copy the the animation from the Green Lantern film for it.

[Hirronimus]

I'll take it.

[Charismatic]

Worth pointing that the pole arm one looks very similar to XIV's chaos thrust with a doomspike at the end.

kekeke

I don't think this and what's in the video above are really all that similar at all.

[Niiro]

The spinning of the lance reminded me of chaos, not so much the actual strikes, the final jump hit is identical to doomspike.

[Charismatic]

The spinning of the lance reminded me of chaos, not so much the actual strikes, the final jump hit is identical to doomspike.

No, it really isn't lol.

[shen]

Would be fun if these are at least competitive with current WS's and have decent placements on the SC charts! Would make Sekkanoki a little more useful >.>

[Colenzo]

mmmmm great sword

[Crab_Cake]

This is all wrong.

Most of these WS look cooler than the Empyrean weapon skills.

One of the problems of FFXI - the cooler looking stuff is usually not the best.

(Seriously it seemed like all the budget of the Empyrean weapon skills went to these. Most of the Empyrean weapon skills look cheap - Victory Smite being combo with one extra attack anyone ?)

[Jeryhn]

Machine Gun.

Make it fire a stack of bullets.

I dare you SE.

[Niiro]

No, it really isn't lol.

Leap upward with an overhand, 1 handed lunge into the ground.

Idk, maybe it's just me.

[Charismatic]

Seriously, it really isn't that similar.




Compare that to a jump where they literally go several feet off the ground and get HORIZONTAL MIDAIR AND COME STRAIGHT DOWN ONTO THE FOE PUTTING THEIR FULL WEIGHT INTO THE ATTACK

[Spira]

Someone make a video of all 14 tomorrow.

If SE doesn't already do this themselves I might

[Niiro]

Compare that to a jump where they literally go several feet off the ground and get HORIZONTAL MIDAIR AND COME STRAIGHT DOWN ONTO THE FOE PUTTING THEIR FULL WEIGHT INTO THE ATTACK

Not claiming them to be identical but the few things I mentioned are distinct enough that when I first saw the video I thought of doomspike right off.

Leap, 1 handed, overhand, ground lunge; similar enough for me to see the connection.

[Charismatic]

Not claiming them to be identical

Well, identical is the exact word you used so I'm sure you can see how I thought that might be what you meant!

[Kyte]

This is all wrong.

Most of these WS look cooler than the Empyrean weapon skills.

One of the problems of FFXI - the cooler looking stuff is usually not the best.

(Seriously it seemed like all the budget of the Empyrean weapon skills went to these. Most of the Empyrean weapon skills look cheap - Victory Smite being combo with one extra attack anyone ?)

I wouldn't necessarily think of it like that. As time goes on, people just think of better things and/or expand upon them more. A Beatle had to be designed before the Boxster was developed.

Now, you could say that the level 290-300 skill stuff looked a bit plain- but I think that was actually intentional, as it was supposed to be building on the same series of WS as those pre-WSNM.

[Crab_Cake]

I wouldn't necessarily think of it like that. As time goes on, people just think of better things and/or expand upon them more. A Beatle had to be designed before the Boxster was developed.

Now, you could say that the level 290-300 skill stuff looked a bit plain- but I think that was actually intentional, as it was supposed to be building on the same series of WS as those pre-WSNM.

Well in a sense sort of but they definitely had the capability to make better looking WS for Empyrean. I guess rather than "budget" they had an issue of "time" or something (to meet the deadline).

One example are the Mythic weapon skills (which came out before Emp but after Relic) - A decent amount of them (even though they reused animations) look + sound well done but with Empyrean WS it looks and sounds really cheap.

If they had better sound effects I wouldn't have mind as much but most were reused from older, weaker sounding WS (AFAIK most of Mythic WS had new sound effects at the least).

Here are the Empyrean weapon skills, while here are the Mythic weapon skills.

Edit - Also I know about dat swapping but "half" the point of weapon skills is showing off to other players the cool animation and sound effects >.>.

[Prothescar]

idk. Kinda tough to choose between Zorro and materializing a solar system just to explode it in terms of coolness.

[Crab_Cake]

idk. Kinda tough to choose between Zorro and materializing a solar system just to explode it in terms of coolness.

The zorro WS is one of the few good looking Empyrean WS (though most of the others are bad sound wise and in terms of looks).

[Niiro]

Well, identical is the exact word you used so I'm sure you can see how I thought that might be what you meant!

I clearly meant partially identical.

If you're not gonna read what I don't write just shut up.

Gawd.