FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread III: Where's my beta invite?

[MidgarZolom]

Just woke up and logged in easily

Are you in North America? I'm beginning to think my error is local...

[Katlan]

Is it that much of a lag clusterfuck?
It was laggy and painful for me last test.

I fear what it would be like this test. I'll try logging on at like...6est, see how it is.

i had np logging in and playing around for 30 min before i left for work, was basically hard capped at 30fps

[Hyan]

Yeah I had no troubles logging and aside from the slight lag and stuttering it was alright.

Gonna wait for them to fix the stuttering problem before playing more though, it's irritating.

[BlackheartX]

To derail this thread, I wonder/hope that at a certain point when leveling elemental stats that they add en-effects to your attacks. This would be cool but it would lead to more LOLJOB style thinking and realities.

[Ramsey]

To derail this thread, I wonder/hope that at a certain point when leveling elemental stats that they add en-effects to your attacks. This would be cool but it would lead to more LOLJOB style thinking and realities.

I'd rather see legit enspells. Having a permanent enspell on you from your element would mean you couldn't melee certain mobs because they might absorb the damage lol. Also, it'd get obnoxious if everyone used enspells.

I would like the elements to have a pretty big impact on our offensive abilities as well though. If I go hardcore fire, my fire spells/ws should hit very hard, but I should be pretty weak to water etc.

[BlackheartX]

I'd rather see legit enspells. Having a permanent enspell on you from your element would mean you couldn't melee certain mobs because they might absorb the damage lol. Also, it'd get obnoxious if everyone used enspells.

I would like the elements to have a pretty big impact on our offensive abilities as well though. If I go hardcore fire, my fire spells/ws should hit very hard, but I should be pretty weak to water etc.

Touche, every melee would need an elemental based WS however.

[Myth]

Touche, every melee would need an elemental based WS however.

Is this not the case now? WSs in XI were elemental based, so I think it'd be strange for them not to be in XIV.

[Zeyger]

If I fully downloaded the old version of the game, is there a way I can update without fully redownloading the game? I tried reading the past few pages, but. Don't know if any of those solutions would work fir me or not. I downloaded using the utorrent method.

[mastamind]

has any caster tried dumping all of their elemental points into the element of their dart to see if it increased damage?

[Celeras]

Conjurer has a bunch of problems now:

-Spirit dart was the bread and butter for damage before. It was a bit less than spells, but still did good damage and was faster. Now the damage is complete shit and doesn't seem to improve with INT at all.

Same with Thaum, but it's a good thing in my book. There was honestly no reason to use anything else in Alpha unless you were aiming for AoE. Why spend mana on something that does the exact same damage as a spammable auto attack that doesn't use any?

[Hyan]

Same with Thaum, but it's a good thing in my book. There was honestly no reason to use anything else in Alpha unless you were aiming for AoE. Why spend mana on something that does the exact same damage as a spammable auto attack that doesn't use any?

Because it's AoE? D:

[Ramsey]

has any caster tried dumping all of their elemental points into the element of their dart to see if it increased damage?

It does say it's just elemental resistances in the menu... It's very irritating when they were talking about it it sounded a lot more like you were aligning yourself with that element, and that it would affect resistances and offensive abilities as well. People who focused on fire would have deadly fire magic, and be resistant to fire but weak to water etc. But it looks like it's just a resistance stat, which is HUGELY disappointing.

It means the only reason to raise this stat one more than the other is if you think you're going to get hit by that type of spell more often, so basically most people are just going to raise it more or less even across the board, and later on when we see the big HNM bosses that need certain resistances, people will move their resistances around if possible.

They need to give it an offensive boost as well, or no one will have a reason to pick a particular element other than HNMs.

[Hyan]

It does say it's just elemental resistances in the menu... It's very irritating when they were talking about it it sounded a lot more like you were aligning yourself with that element, and that it would affect resistances and offensive abilities as well. People who focused on fire would have deadly fire magic, and be resistant to fire but weak to water etc. But it looks like it's just a resistance stat, which is HUGELY disappointing.

A skill (provoke I think) had an "earth affinity" on it. In a pic from E3.

[Celeras]

Because it's AoE? D:

Isn't that what I fucking said?

[Biggie]

You can use a EU account in NA right?

[Hyan]

Isn't that what I fucking said?

I guess you answered your own question then? D'oh.

[Jinfire]

I'd rather see legit enspells. Having a permanent enspell on you from your element would mean you couldn't melee certain mobs because they might absorb the damage lol. Also, it'd get obnoxious if everyone used enspells.

I would like the elements to have a pretty big impact on our offensive abilities as well though. If I go hardcore fire, my fire spells/ws should hit very hard, but I should be pretty weak to water etc.

I agree with what you said except the bold I dont think anyone should be necessarily week to an element they dont increase, just they have no resistance to it.

And I would love ele stats to dictate spell pot / acc some (not a whole lot) but if I do have 50 fire stat and 20 water my fire IV (or equivilant) should do more.

[Celeras]

I guess you answered your own question then? D'oh.

I didn't ask a question that required an answer. 6 spells that do the exact same damage as a spell that doesn't require any mana is bad design when its only benefit is a small AoE. They fixed it.

[Hyan]

I didn't ask a question that required an answer. 6 spells that do the exact same damage as a spell that doesn't require any mana is bad design when its only benefit is a small AoE. They fixed it.

I don't agree.

They should have made the AoE larger, if that's the issue. It's not like you'll be fighting only against one monster majority of the time, and in these cases the AoE spell would pull ahead in damage, but you wouldn't be pretty much required to use it to kill stuff.

The no MP cost spell should do at least comparable damage to an attack round of a melee class IMO.

[Celeras]

You don't agree that the damage done by a spammable, element-less auto attack that uses no mana should be less than the elemental spells that use mana? Ok, great, nobody gives a shit. It was still a needed fix.

Ffs why was it only a temp ban.