Video Preview New Weponskills

[Foxer]

Those animations are fucking insanely ridiculous. They destroy the animations in every other MMO on the market, let alone regular video games.

Not really, but yeah, they're nice.

[Hirronimus]

Wild Ho-oh appears!

The sad part is, the sound effects are still the same

[urat]

A new "Weapon Skill" category will be added to the merit point menu.

• Maximum total value: 15
• Upgrade levels: 5
• Merit points needed for each upgrade: 10/15/20/25/30

Wait what?

[Gwynplaine]

I think the graphics department is the one aspect of Square that doesn't fail.

[Gokulo]

Wait what?

They're raising the amount of merits you can store once again.

[Vandalhart]

Wait what?

They announced they are increasing the amount of stored merits to 30 in a few update note messages.

d'oh, too slow.

[Niiro]

The jumps aren't even really similar. Doomspike is a hop in the air and a forward down thrust, Chaos Thrust is 2 slashes and a single poke. Stardiver is multiple thrusts followed by a jump and vertical dive. The only commonalities are stabbing attacks and jumps.

They have as much in common as any other stab/jump WS. The actual motions are worlds apart, though I don't doubt some influence.

While I did see the similarities on my first viewing my initial post was mostly a facetious response to Sept implying it took so long to develop new WS/animations because XIV was a drag on development resources. I wasn't actually trying to imply they were cutting corners by using animations from XIV (certainly not with chaos thrust, it was only after the final strike that reminded me of doom that I made the loose weapon-twirly parallel for the sake of furthering the farce).

The overhand, 1-handed ground lunge just happened to particularly jump out at me (ba-dum tsh) compared to doomspike.

Change of topic;

Great Sword: Resolution Five-Hit WS, Damage varies with TP.

Tough break for DRKs, we won't make fun of you for cutting yourselves this time. Could still be a nice WS but it was their last shot at a crit WS.

Sword: Requiescat Five-Hit WS, Non-elemental damage. TP mods Attack (Not sure what it means by this)
Katana: Blade: Shun Five-Hit WS. TP mods Attack (Same characters as sword)

EDIT: In a Perusal of the JP wiki I've found out the descriptions for the new Sword and Katana WS TP mods have only ever been used before for Iron Tempest and Sturmwind in the JP version. It's exactly what it says on the tin: your attack is modded instead of your FTP. In the English version of the game, this distinction is not made and it simply says "Damage varies with TP" for those two weapon skills. It seems that they're taking into consideration that PLD and NIN may have hard times against enemies with high defense and thus made TP mod attack this time instead of FTP.

This sounds a lot like how Viper Bite works, since it's "double damage" isn't 2.0 FTP but rather doubles ATK (with extra TP lengthening the poison effect).

Checking wiki the descriptions for Tempest and Sturm are "damage" and "attack" varies respectively. I don't know if those are the in-game descriptions verbatim (haven't played XI in a long time) but iirc the NA description was altered at some point to more accurately reflect what it does.

What's the JP description on Viper relative to Temp/Sturm?

[Julian]

Tiny tiny nitpick, but on the staff WS, it looks like the TP effect is duration of the effect, not accuracy of the effect.

(as if anyone cared about the staff ws. This is based on google translating the french description, so I, er, the french could be wrong)

[Dimmauk]

Can't wait to nuke on my DRK then bust out an entropy and get MP back!

[Jaxzer]

Those animations are fucking insanely ridiculous. They destroy the animations in every other MMO on the market, let alone regular video games.

Sometimes I want to come back to FFXI because of stuff like this.
Any word, on real new content besides VNM?

Hi ring3

[Juxtaposition]

Those animations are fucking insanely ridiculous. They destroy the animations in every other MMO on the market, let alone regular video games.

Sometimes I want to come back to FFXI because of stuff like this.

Any word, on real new content besides VNM?

Just watch the WS video 800 times while mashing Ctrl 8, subscription-free FFXI!

[Kalima]

I don't know who on the dev team created all of these animations, but kudos to them for making the mithra ones some of the absolute best of the bunch (except for the gkatana one...elvaan M one looks the best). Especially loving the little twisty-flippy thing that they do with the 1H axe WS.

Also the taru dagger ws made me rofl...full body dive head first with a dagger is just made of win.

[Kincard]

What's the JP description on Viper relative to Temp/Sturm?

It has the same wording as other "x# damage" WSs like Blade: Hi or Slugshot, so they can't even keep consistent in the JP client either.

[Crab_Cake]

Those animations are fucking insanely ridiculous. They destroy the animations in every other MMO on the market, let alone regular video games.

Sometimes I want to come back to FFXI because of stuff like this.

Any word, on real new content besides VNM?

Agreed. That's SE's master plan - Use all their time and budget to create one of the best looking set of weapon skills to get people back.

[ringthree]

I don't know who on the dev team created all of these animations, but kudos to them for making the mithra ones some of the absolute best of the bunch (except for the gkatana one...elvaan M one looks the best). Especially loving the little twisty-flippy thing that they do with the 1H axe WS.

Also the taru dagger ws made me rofl...full body dive head first with a dagger is just made of win.

There are so many little amazing things in these animations. The mithra flip off the top of the polearm. The tarutaru is upside down on last strike of the katana WS. The Elvaan M drops one hand to the ground on the second spin of the great sword WS.

Put the people that made the animations in charge of EVERY FUCKING GAME THAT SE MAKES!

[Jeryhn]

Put the people that made the animations in charge of EVERY FUCKING GAME THAT SE MAKES!

So that they can make games like FFXIII?

[Neisan]

At least it'll look good, right?

[dannyl]

Club: Realmrazer Seven-Hit WS. Accuracy varies with TP.

The new and improved Hexa? hmmmmmmmmm

[Raelia]

The new and improved Hexa? hmmmmmmmmm

And usable by PLD. Moepapa Mace says 'hi'. I'm still looking for what stat mod it is though.

[Nightfyre]

MND iirc, surprise surprise