Dev Tracker: Discussion

[geno3302]

Heavenly Strike does work but it requires much more magic accuracy/summoning skill to work as effectively, they're definitely less resistant to fire and it's easy to notice the difference especially on the slightly higher level ones. Too many resists and you'll lose the chain. SMN/RDM works because a few fire nukes and it'll be dead, it doesn't matter if you get resisted as long as the sliver of its HP is gone before it eats you, with a good build it'll still do ~700 damage when resisted, but /SCH is fine too.

Yeah I made a high M.ACC build basically just for this. I rarely get resists with shiva and can kill in 2 BPs (8-11k in M.ACC build). I'm 5/5 with shiva and 1/5 with the rest, if I had 2-3 points in ifrit I'd probably use him.

[Damane]

this is depressing if SE cant find its own bugs... shit was reported several years ago and only now that violent flourish did break they aknoledge it?

also the answer is confuseing. how can something work for some and others not

[Indalecia]

So can someone link me to this spot you guys are talking about? Because (at least on Quetz) I can't find anyone that's actually xp'd on them before.

[dasva]

also the answer is confuseing. how can something work for some and others not

spaghetti code? Maybe something super weird like having more than 5k conquest points while being captain rank in wotg and having job points unlocked makes it so macc skill actually subtracts from your macc?

[arus2001]

Watch it be something dumb like Blue Magic Attack merits fucking everything up.

[Indalecia]

Watch it be something dumb like Blue Magic Attack merits fucking everything up.

Heh...the correlation to early Civ and Gandhi with nukes comes to mind.

[dasva]

Or remember how divine emblem was boosting magical ws too and not using it up lol.

[Tarage]

Meriting merit points...

While I welcome the change and think it's great, I have to snicker.

[Lyramion]

So in HP/MP you now get to merit 15 to hp 15 to mp and 15 to max merits?

[Sechs]

Having to spend merit points to expand the maximum number of merit points is... I mean it's a great idea, but implemented this way it makes me chuckle a bit I guess lol

[Treize Kordero]

Just saw combat skill merits going up from 32 to 56 and jizzed... that makes me very happy :D

[Priran]

I like how there's no increase in the weapon skill category. stay classy SE

[Sechs]

I like how there's no increase in the weapon skill category. stay classy SE

Matsui already mentioned this like 1 month ago when they announced the expansion of the merit category thing.
Pure bullshit if you ask me, but can't say we didn't know already.

I really don't get why they're being so adamant with that, makes no sense to me.

[Kincard]

I never understood why so many people are against them limiting the number of things we can max out given that it's a common thing to have in just about every RPG. It's kinda boring if you could just grind your heart out until everything is maxed, IMO.

[Toth]

Who the hell is developing this game now and where the hell have they been for the last 5 years? The amount of improvements the game has received in the last year has been staggering.

[Sechs]

I never understood why so many people are against them limiting the number of things we can max out given that it's a common thing to have in just about every RPG. It's kinda boring if you could just grind your heart out until everything is maxed, IMO.

Regardless of personal tastes concerning limits or no limits, the point here is rather that 3 maxed out WS out of 15 is a bit too strict of a limit.
Their answer is "but we made so 1/5 WS can be decent now!" is not particularly satisfying.

People like me and, I assume, many other aren't demanding to be able to max out every single WS, but to be able to get at least one or two more. Maxing out 5 or even 4 WS instead of the current 3 would already be a more acceptable compromise.

[Sechs]

Who the hell is developing this game now

Akihiko Matsui

and where the hell have they been for the last 5 years?

He "invented" Abyssea then moved full-time working on FFXIV.
After the seat change to Yoshi-P, he got kick... ehm, decided to leave the FFXIV team and is not the leader of the FFXI project.

[Toth]

Akihiko Matsui


He "invented" Abyssea then moved full-time working on FFXIV.
After the seat change to Yoshi-P, he got kick... ehm, decided to leave the FFXIV team and is not the leader of the FFXI project.

Haha, I know that Sechs. I meant I was wondering who is working under him now that is able to finally program all this stuff so quickly.

[Seha]

I'm pretty sure it was Yoshida who designed Abyssea, not Matsui. Matsui was only battle designer for all these years until becoming director.

[Byrthnoth]

Too bad they didn't increase the Tier 1/2 merit category caps to 20. This is pretty much what I expected. I bet it takes me 2 weeks to cap them all out.