FFXIV 3.0 : Heavensward - Expansion Information and Discussion

[Damane]

Sch has been a healer/nuker in every ff game its been present in. Usually has both black and white magic. Maybe they can add a stance to SCH that allows their healing skills to be gated behind this stance. Activate "light arts" to use cures, and sch abilities, use dark arts to use bio and shadow flare and other arcanist abilities. Maybe make light arts add a small bonus to sch abilities and dark arts add a bonus to spell damage. This wah they cant use both simultaneously but whichever one they're in get enhanced, 2min cool down on changing arts? *Shrug*

there is allready a stance for that its called "Cleric Stance", cross class from CNJ. when Cleric Stance is on, healing magic has a sever magic penalty while "nukes" become that much stronger. sch do the "cleric stance"-dance all the time. I have no idea what you just tried to do, because what you described is allready in the game and 2 min cool down on Cleric Stance is too long for such a fast paced game like 14 and would honestly just hurt whm. SCH "nukes" without Cleric Stance are laughable ¬.¬ (not sure if you played 14 at all).

SCH just benefits alot from Cleric Stance because it only cripples half of their healing power: themselfs, the pet is unnaffected by this and can proceed on curing and then there is Lustrate as a back up heal. WHM on the other hand is castrated during Cleric Stance for any kind of healing, but thats where regen and holy stun come into play (for dungeon runs).

[Lokus]

Some interesting new race concept art.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../44459427.html

They actually thought about doing Viera, and some warewolf race before they settled on a dragon type race.

I don't get their excuse, "We couldn't make male viera look good." They looked fine. Along with that, they had a more sultry Au Ra in the concept art as well but decided to just go with small and dainty as if we don't already have those.

[Gokulo]

I don't get their excuse, "We couldn't make male viera look good." They looked fine. Along with that, they had a more sultry Au Ra in the concept art as well but decided to just go with small and dainty as if we don't already have those.

There's nothing to get because in the vision and their own taste. They didn't like it so they decided not to go with it.

[Lokus]

They made it seem like male vieras were some abominations. Either way, I don't agree with all their choices with the races but at the end of the day, SE does what they think fans will want and will get them money.

[arus2001]

Dudes with bunny ears just look silly. Maybe that's just evil gender bias programming in me more associating it with Playboy bunnies long before Viera, but it is what it is even if I don't dote over bunny girls, myself. And if straight up animal comparisons are the angle, dragons probably get the nod of being cooler and/or more intimidating than rabbits even if the fantasy dragon isn't real. I'll just be glad they didn't go with the werewolf (Ronso reimagining?) either.

[Destinye]

I don't get their excuse, "We couldn't make male viera look good." They looked fine. Along with that, they had a more sultry Au Ra in the concept art as well but decided to just go with small and dainty as if we don't already have those.

I'll reiterate:

It's YoshiP. He can make any excuse and people will gobble it up since he's the second coming. Also: "It's too rooted into FFXII (really Ivalice)" was the main excuse. Vieras I'm glad they didn't go with though, while the demon people are fine, they still should have went with Gria if they were going to implement an Ivalice race.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Shoulda taken inspiration from Fire Emblem on how to make male bunnies look (somewhat) intimidating.

[Ophannus]

Ah, I only been playing for a few weeks, thought cleric stance was a conj/whm thing, didn't know it was cross classable.

[Lucavi]

I don't get their excuse, "We couldn't make male viera look good." They looked fine. Along with that, they had a more sultry Au Ra in the concept art as well but decided to just go with small and dainty as if we don't already have those.

Dainty is King in Japan. Annoying, but it is what it is.

[Voyage1970]

I'll reiterate:

It's YoshiP. He can make any excuse and people will gobble it up since he's the second coming. Also: "It's too rooted into FFXII (really Ivalice)" was the main excuse. Vieras I'm glad they didn't go with though, while the demon people are fine, they still should have went with Gria if they were going to implement an Ivalice race.

They pretty much are Gria minus the wings honestly. Also they can call them demons all they want but when the concept art has "Race_Dragon" all over it and they have fucking scales covering their face/tail all I see is dargon people.

[Katlan]

dragon-kin/like race makes much more sense for Heavensward than Bunny people, lets be honest here

[Lucavi]

They pretty much are Gria minus the wings honestly. Also they can call them demons all they want but when the concept art has "Race_Dragon" all over it and they have fucking scales covering their face/tail all I see is dargon people.

Gria kicked serious ass. <3 Small little dragonwaifs that wrecked shit with greatswords.

@Katlan: The good news is that this game ain't goin anywhere. There's plenty of time for Viera, especially with the usual MMO trope of each Xpac = new continent/country/area. We'll get shuffled off to some other deep-wooded area and blammo, bunny chicks. I was more interested in how Roe female faces, especially their flattish noses and cheekbones, looked a lot like the Viera concept art. I'm wondering which were designed first.

[solracht]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/download/

[Sho]

And, downloads are being slammed.

Someone with the speedy interwebs who beat the rush should upload it for us plebs.

Edit: Nah, not too bad. Just finished myself. But my own upload rate is shit and will take 50+ mins to complete.

[Lokus]

We gonna get the spreadsheet going again to compare scores?

edit: nvm, someone started a thread: http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/125...00#post6407700

[Fhloston]

So hard to decide between F or M Au Ra. The ladies look so good. Love the face on this one, but don't care much for the horn style.

Spoiler: show

[Cantih]

I'm not sure S-E thought male Au Ra faces all the way through. Or one of the new hairstyles.

Spoiler: show

Well, at least it can't get any worse...

Spoiler: show

Fuckit, I'm out.

[Fhloston]

LOL those look so downsy. It's fucking hard b/c the male Au Ra hairstyles are pretty boss looking too. Arrrggghhhh.

[Eldelphia]

Windows 8.1 here and I couldn't get the benchmark to run before I went to work. I play FFXIV on high settings. I will try again later but the splash screen comes up then disappears which according to the website means I can't run it or don't have DirectX something. When I tried downloading DirectX my PC told me it had a newer version. God knows what's going on.

[Deader2818]

I'll reiterate:

It's YoshiP. He can make any excuse and people will gobble it up since he's the second coming. Also: "It's too rooted into FFXII (really Ivalice)" was the main excuse. Vieras I'm glad they didn't go with though, while the demon people are fine, they still should have went with Gria if they were going to implement an Ivalice race.

its funny, you seem to really hate YoshiP for some odd reason.