Garuda, Ruler of the Skies! (04/24/2012)

[Elcura]

Evasion, or reduced skill recasts (fists of wind) if we're lucky.

I think evasion is likely, just because anything else might be considered useful.

[Raldo]

If they go that route, I would hope they generalize it to "defensive skills" and give +block to GLD, +parry to MRD/LNC, +eva to PGL/ARC, +m.eva to THM/CON. At least with that, GLD might care about the weapon.

...and since no one's mentioned it, of course it will have +15 wind resist and occasional extra wind damage.

[solracht]

I think evasion is likely, just because anything else might be considered useful.

I also forgot about movement speed.

Deep inside I can't help but feel like Ifrit weapons have attack/mattack+ because Attack was something related to fire in XI... not because they wanted the weapons to be useful. We were just lucky since he was the first primal.

I want to be wrong though. Please prove me wrong, Square-Enix.

[Nevex]

Much like the music discussion in the other thread, I like the music, but I don't think the electric guitar stuff was necessary :/

You could say the same for the vast majority of the OST. The more I listen to it the more I think Uematsu had absolutely no clue of what kind of setting this game was going to have.

[Toth]

I'm sorry I saddened you solract ; ;

However, I can see reduced skill timer and evasion/parrying weapons being useful in some situations since front line jobs could benefit from the activated skills and quicker WSes.

[Spira]

You could say the same for the vast majority of the OST. The more I listen to it the more I think Uematsu had absolutely no clue of what kind of setting this game was going to have.

or its just Uematsu being Uematsu...

[miokomioko]

I'm sure he didn't get much direction other than "deep forest," "port town," or "windy highlands." Even just from watching the Uematsu piece of the "making of" videos made me feel like he was entirely separate from the whole project.