Official: Final Fantasy XIV Youtube channel

[Dantrag]

Only thing I didn't like was that the mitrha was too relaxed in the fight. One of the only redeeming factors of a mithra was that their tail was basically stiff when fighting.

[Brodan]

hmm, my cats don't have stiff tails when they fight.

[Jahb]

I'm going to be so addicted to this shit

[Dantrag]

hmm, my cats don't have stiff tails when they fight.

well in xi they go from relaxed to a more... not... relaxed... position... i don't know w/e /hides.

Wonder what end game will be like in this game. Need to see more PT of mobs vs PT of players.

[Brodan]

I agree, they should finally show bigger battles. Or a boss fight.

[outzaidur]

omg so cute! I can watch that fuzzy tail waggle for many years to come

[Purrrfect]

Do like the changes to the battle system, and the visuals of course.

[btoads]

Man they really improved the lighting. I like when it shows that NPC who now has a slightly blue hue due to the lights around him. I wonder if battle effects will cast lights on surrounding players and enemies.

[Corresapolonia]

omg so cute! I can watch that fuzzy tail waggle for many years to come

that sounds for some reason kinda pervy. but nevertheless improved lighting battle System. Bad thing: some stats will be put out completely like Chr and such.

[Loaar]

that sounds for some reason kinda pervy. but nevertheless improved lighting battle System. Bad thing: some stats will be put out completely like Chr and such.

Curious as to why you think less stats is a bad thing?

Stats like CHR don't really have a place in FFXIV anyway. So far there isn't anything like a bard or a beastmaster, and its looking like skills may be influenced by elemental affinities, so instead of increasing CHR a tank might need to boost their Earth Affinity or something like that.

[Corresapolonia]

Curious as to why you think less stats is a bad thing?

Stats like CHR don't really have a place in FFXIV anyway. So far there isn't anything like a bard or a beastmaster, and its looking like skills may be influenced by elemental affinities, so instead of increasing CHR a tank might need to boost their Earth Affinity or something like that.

good point. CHR just influenced brd's and bst's in their way of playing. So by cutting out these stats players won't be asking:" and what's this stat doing?"
still i hope they won't cut out much more from such things, that woould be disapointing.

[nomad2637]

good point. CHR just influenced brd's and bst's in their way of playing. So by cutting out these stats players won't be asking:" and what's this stat doing?"
still i hope they won't cut out much more from such things, that woould be disapointing.

Now ppl will wonder what Piety does!

[Lucavi]

It's definitely looking good, but I'm really hoping there are more than 2 animations for basic attacks and 1 for crits.

And whoever said the stamina bar reminds them of Demons Souls - I had a flashback or two myself.

Edit: or is it just 3 animations for attacks including crits? Her normal attacks are doing around 55, then at 1:43 she grunts and the sound of the hit landing is louder for 69 dmg, then a few swings later it looks like the previous "normal" animations and sounds but says crit for 74?

Love this post. Moar animations, please!

[viperlasson]

<333 the miqo'te in the youtube vid. Played the last two alpha tests and saw that they fixed a lot of the texture pop ins and lighting effects. Just hope you can run the game full screen in beta, hate playing games in small windows.

[Orden]

I love this improvement. I can't wait to see what beta is like. Without so much waiting, pugilist will probably be a really fun class to play. I say this because a lot of pug's abilities are reactive, so this new battle system should make pug battles feel much more fluid: One action fueling the next, which fuels the next.

That's my hope at least.

I can't wait to see how this affects casters. Without so much waiting, I see much fun in the future. One of the things I hated about the previous system is was the way it made gravity kiting difficult. With this new system though, I can see a battle flow of "Gravity > nuke > nuke> Nuke" being viable, rather than "Gravity > Run/wait > Try to nuke, get hit > Nerdrage."

Overall, I'm VERY excited about this beta. Can't wait for it to start.

[euph]

also with the new battle system gladiator's phalanx will make a lot of sense. Only did i start to get a true feel for phalanx's potential towards the last two sessions of the alpha, when i finally figured out how to use it semi-properly.

On a side note Mi'qote gladiator is going to look so fucking badass. I cannot wait.

[Gulkeeva]

On a side note Mi'qote gladiator is going to look so fucking badass. I cannot wait.

pm me pics of that >.> <.<

[Johndile]

pm me pics of that >.> <.<

Isn't it just the alpha/beta comparison vid?

[euph]

there are pictures floating around of mi'qote gladiator from E3... somewhere haha

I fell in loooove <3

[Agito]

Mithra had a nasty ass but the Miqo'te ass is very impressive.