Famitsu Interview with FF developers

[Eltia]

Famitsu is a pretty reliable source, the interview should hold some water.

http://www.famitsu.com/blog/vanatsu/...0/post_84.html

Some key points:
- may add monsters that resist to Thunder element. (Bye bye Burst II.)
- improvement of SMN in the form of BP's accuracy and damage.
- there will be some "basic" adjustment to SAM.
- will find ways to encourage WAR not to subjob NIN. (Sucks to be WAR with full axe merit.)

Now release the translators!

[Tilo]

No flame intended to you, but the sum of this interview is basically stuff we already know plus another chance to take a shit on blm.

[BRP]

Oh god, you mean I'll have to cast Blizzard IV more?

[Ahkow]

blizzard IV is a cool as ever

[Epical]

This horse is dead, but just to reiterate: making players weaker is not a way of balancing shit.

[Shuemue]

Tornado II is where it's at.

[Suiram]

Freeze II is better than Burst II anyway, and as long as they aren't taking current mobs and making them strong to thunder, I'll have no complaints.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

This horse is dead, but just to reiterate: making players weaker is not a way of balancing shit.

Where did it say anybody was going to get nerfed. It said that they will probably implement monsters more resistant to Thunder damage.

Plus, quit being such pussies. If nerfs happen w/e, find a way to play your job. Change isn't the end of the world.

[Lordwafik]

when will they realize the only reason people cast thunder on shit is because it's the highest tiered nuke and their elemental magic system is extremely unbalanced?

Making more mobs that resist thunder = stupid
Making all elements of magic equal and then applying strength/weakness according to mob type = winrar.

[Not Kuno]

As much as I use thunder; I don't care if they add mobs that are resistant to thunder. Its only when they nerf stuff that gets me upset. They need to make the nukes more balanced or else people will go thunder->blizzard->etc going down before they get to what isn't resisted.

[Chupunpupun]

Where is miruka!!!

[cassiraa]

when will they realize the only reason people cast thunder on shit is because it's the highest tiered nuke and their elemental magic system is extremely unbalanced?

Making more mobs that resist thunder = stupid
Making all elements of magic equal and then applying strength/weakness according to mob type = winrar.

Would you say as soon as you get Stone II, It's strength is equal to when you get Thunder II 20 levels later? Sure, All elemetal magic of the same tier being the same strength looks great when you're at endgame, but it would mess up the leveling scheme.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that equal-strength magic would be the best way to make mages diversify instead of everybody casting the same thing, however it would affect Johnny McZam who is leveling his 42BLM, and SE is scared to do that because it still thinks that people leveling lower level jobs matter for some reason.

AM2 all being equal strength is a great start though, I'm not sure what else they'll do though.

[Shuemue]

They need to make more mobs like Hydra and Cerberus that I can nuke for double digit damage.

[BRP]

I'm sure I'll get hate for it, but giving several monsters resistances against most magic with one non-thunder or ice weakness would be nice. Not like Kirin, but close.

Then again, what is the point? If you can't throw BLMs using ice or thunder at it, everyone going to resort to meleeburning it. And if you can't meleeburn it, then you SMNburn it. And if you can't SMNburn it, people will do something zany, like PUPburn it, doing everything possible to exploit the situation, completely ignoring something like "Oh, to make it not do "Rapega", you need to hit it with an Earth spell while it is in a certain position". I'm sure even then people will be unsatified with the drops because it wouldn't drop anything powerful enough to make the next fight a simple "-burn" tactic.

It's hopeless, just breed Chocobos.

[Lordwafik]

Would you say as soon as you get Stone II, It's strength is equal to when you get Thunder II 20 levels later?

If they do that in an addition to them giving mobs +/- dmg taken when using certain spells, I'm all for it.

Otherwise, hi2u casting thunder on all mobs because it does the most dmg.

[Shuemue]

Or they could simply raise the base damage of each tier of spells is learned.

Example, learn Stone II and it's base dmg is 200, then a few levels later you learn Water II whose base dmg is 220, you increase the base dmg of Stone II to 220 also, that way they could easily force more focus on picking the correct element.

[BRP]

All that does is make Ice undoubtly stronger in most situations, with the very few fire monsters as expections. Monster strength/weakness is really the only way in my opinion to do it right. Have some monsters weak against magic in general, where ice/thunder will remain the kings, but have just as many or more strong against most magic but their weakness. Have the bonus from hitting them with their weakness be worth it enough that people don't feel gimped by the whole thing unless they only gear themselves to do well on thunder and ice(which isn't really possible unless you only by 2 or 3 elemental staves).

[aurik]

Contrary to popular belief, not everything is weak to ice/thunder BRP. It's true for XP mobs, certainly, but if you look at the overall list of weaknesses, a lot of the stuff you never fight have varied elemental resistances.

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[Ferien]

when will they realize the only reason people cast thunder on shit is because it's the highest tiered nuke and their elemental magic system is extremely unbalanced?

Making more mobs that resist thunder = stupid
Making all elements of magic equal and then applying strength/weakness according to mob type = winrar.

Would you say as soon as you get Stone II, It's strength is equal to when you get Thunder II 20 levels later? Sure, All elemetal magic of the same tier being the same strength looks great when you're at endgame, but it would mess up the leveling scheme.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that equal-strength magic would be the best way to make mages diversify instead of everybody casting the same thing, however it would affect Johnny McZam who is leveling his 42BLM, and SE is scared to do that because it still thinks that people leveling lower level jobs matter for some reason.

AM2 all being equal strength is a great start though, I'm not sure what else they'll do though.

I actually think that would be a great idea, if they implemented it correctly. If all magic were equal, but elemental strengths and weaknesses were made a lot more pronounced, you'd still have to pick and choose the proper spell to use for the situation.

For instance, Fafnir is weak to Water, but you get more damage out of Light > Thunder IV, because of T4's higher base damage. If they adjusted the system to make the spells equal, and weaknesses/strengths more pronounced, Darkness > Water IV would be far more effective and MP-efficient.

Sure, I give Fafnir as the example, but take it down through XP mobs. Torama are weak to Earth, but because of the shitty base damage on Stone, people don't use it. Raptors are weak to Water, but the BLMs I had through those levels used Blizzaga II over Water III. Also, it wouldn't change most of the XP dynamics through the levels, since most mobs are weak to Ice, and most of the time you're doing Distortion > (insert most powerful ice-based spell here).

[Yeargdribble]

I doubt they will ever have enough brain matter between the devs to balance it out honestly.

I posted a thread about balancing it out on Alla a while back and got flamed. The point being, SE listens to the allatards that flamed me instead of listening to people who know something or actualliy using reason themselves.

It's bad when you see random BLMs casting Thunder IV on purple Ghrahs because they went from 1-75 without ever learning a damn thing about resistance. Why? A good example are mandies in the Jungle. You get Stone II and instead of using a spell that they are weak to (basically everything else) you cast Stone II and it still does the best damage. Unless a mob is completely resistant (i.e. Elementals) there is no brain power behind nuking. Use the latest nuke period.

Sure it might fuck the leveling scheme a little to make elements be of equal power within the same tier but so what? God forbid people learn elemental resistances.