Dev Tracker: Discussion

[dasva]

Not sure if SE actually believes having the bst and his pet in range wont directly affect dmg output or just trolling...

Also that pup stuff is kind of confusing. Like are all those +x% added together? So basically it's just ftp -1? And flameholder is just adding some ftp? Also kind of wonder if that was per hit on the multi hit ones. If so some of those look pretty powerful. And all those acc bonuses are rather nice

Also shame about flame holder. That's pretty powerful if that's what it's doing but having to constantly fire maneuver would be a pain I think

Also should note their info is a little off. Knockout is actually -50 evasion. And the duration I got suggests that armor shatters duration is only +50% at 3k tp.

[Kyte]

Not sure if SE actually believes having the bst and his pet in range wont directly affect dmg output or just trolling...

Also that pup stuff is kind of confusing. Like are all those +x% added together? So basically it's just ftp -1? And flameholder is just adding some ftp? Also kind of wonder if that was per hit on the multi hit ones. If so some of those look pretty powerful. And all those acc bonuses are rather nice

Also shame about flame holder. That's pretty powerful if that's what it's doing but having to constantly fire maneuver would be a pain I think

Also should note their info is a little off. Knockout is actually -50 evasion. And the duration I got suggests that armor shatters duration is only +50% at 3k tp.

It not being +TP bonus has been known about flameholder since shortly after its implementation, although this does present somewhat different math than was previously considered when calculating the damage.


As always, the localization team has proven to be the best team.

[dasva]

It not being +TP bonus has been known about flameholder since shortly after its implementation, although this does present somewhat different math than was previously considered when calculating the damage.


As always, the localization team has proven to be the best team.

Well they did they did boost a lot of attachments (and auto ws too) semi recently so that might be part of the differences. iirc didn't it not used to do anything with no fire maneuvers?

[Tidis]

So we're getting Behemoths and Clusters at the very least, speculation on growth paths?

Behemoth Cub > Behemoth > Greater Behemoth (Beastly Shank maybe)

Behemoth Cub > Behemoth > red + black style Behemoth (Savory Shank maybe)

Small Cluster > Cluster
Small Cluster > Grey Cluster

[Maurauc]

They released more Aloha Iroha, including more Zeid bashing!
Aloha Iroha
That orb seems to be the true hero of Vana'Diel.

[Tidis]

Wow 3/4 of the manga strips are bashing Zeid, have they got something against him?

The great hero who defeated the Shadow Lord, reduced to comic relief!

[Teryu]

Orb is my favorite FFXI character now.

[Maurauc]

I'm really hoping the orb is a link to us from the future, and we're talking smack to everyone we wished we could have in the past.

[Seha]

I love that comic.

[FaeQueenCory]

I'm really hoping the orb is a link to us from the future, and we're talking smack to everyone we wished we could have in the past.

It started off as a mysterious talking magatama.... but... with these past two sets, it seems like it's a stand-in for the PC.

[geno3302]

Wow 3/4 of the manga strips are bashing Zeid, have they got something against him?

The great hero who defeated the Shadow Lord, reduced to comic relief!

He's a piece of shit galka?

[Byrthnoth]

He's a piece of shit galka?

QFT

[gaira]

zeid's hat/mask/do-rag always bothered the fuck out of me, for some reason.

[Kyte]

Galkas have always bothered the fuck out of me, for reasons obvious to anyone that isn't braindead.

[NynJa]

San doria = french europe (bunch of snobs who think theyre the best), windurst = japan (beautiful area home to short people with an obsession with catgirls), bastok = america (humes = whites, galkas = black slaves).

You know its pretty damn accurate lol

[Tarage]

The orb is the player character stand-in. He's us. I think.

[Karbuncle]

The orb is the player character stand-in. He's us. I think.

This is how I interpret it, she refers to it as master, which is what she calls us in game.

Seriously though the latest one "Zeid, do you even carry a weapon?". lol, I like these.

[FaeQueenCory]

San doria = french europe (bunch of snobs who think theyre the best), windurst = japan (beautiful area home to short people with an obsession with catgirls), bastok = america (humes = whites, galkas = Native Americans).

You know its pretty damn accurate lol

Ftfy.

More than just black people were slaves.
More than just black people are subject to racial inequity.
Given the Galka motifs and culture, to equate them with African Americans instead of the Native Americans is just one more injustice born from ignorance of our plight.
(Destruction and repression of culture, forced assimilation, open arms to slavery, segregation, naming convention, these are FAR more Native American than African American.)

[Kincard]

I find when it comes to any constructed world, people seem to like to take one aspect of the imaginary races and imagine that they're associated with some stereotype of that race in real life (Like how Tolkein's Dwarves are apparently Jews despite his stated dislike of allegory, or how Cardassians in Star Trek are definitely Germans).

The Galka share common things with various real life races but they I don't really find that they represent Native Americans any more than blacks any more than illegal immigrants (Galkas were not displaced from their homeland by Humes, remember). Nor are the Tarutaru supposed to be some kind of East Asian because they're short- I don't think I know any East Asian cultures that had made political decisions based off of some sort of religion based around divination (the closest thing I can think of is the Mandate of Heaven in China and that's still pretty different).

[Bukadan]

I mean, people who make games can only pull ideas from their "thought bubble" of things they know/have learned/created based on what theyve learned. It would be difficult to NOT find similarities to real world situations/races because of that imo. Supernatural superstitions all the way to god included.