Your primary element type?

[MidgarZolom]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...V_elements.png

Started thinking about this when I had to assign the elemental points during last week's test. I realize people will probably try to balance a few elements, but still, I thought it would be fun to see which elements we are drawn to.

I'm somewhat undecided, but I've always been partial to the Wind element in games (sometimes lumped with lightning). Along with that I may do some Earth and/or Lightning.


Edit: Made it so you can vote for more than one if you are fairly evenly split between two or more.

[Izzy]

If it's anything like FFXI... full lightning.

Lightning
if mob is resistant to lightning
Ice

[bluefan]

Ice. Always loved any kind of frost/freezing effect from a lot of different games. The sound it makes, the summon representing the element (<3 Shiva). Stoked that it's in XIV

[Agito]

If you max fire then your fire magic damage and fire resistance will be very good. People will be redistributing stats constantly, nobody is going to stay with the same element for very long. If i had to stick with an element for long though then i'd spread out the points between multiple elements. I think that there will be gear that has certain element resistances so that might be a factor aswell. More rounded for every day, maxed out fire element while tanking a fire blasting dragon is what i'll go with.

[Kirb]

Always been partial to Ice.

[Sutien]

I've always been drawn to fire.

[Khamsin]

Depends on what's most practical, and best for min/maxing.

Probably wind/earth/ice for thaumaturge to land enfeebles, and thunder/ice for higher damage on conjurer.

[Darte]

Depends on the types of status effects you can get this time around and how they affect you. I'm more partial to wind to boost resisting to silence (that is if it remains to wind element, I hear they changed the weakness of fire to wind instead of water which kinda threw me off <.<).

[nekoshoonen]

is this thread for real?

[Cloud]

Spread out evenly until I need to tank something that requires redistribution.
I can see why some people would be interested in knowing this info, but it's kind of pointless since we don't know anything about end-game.

Elements will need changing depending on zones, creature type, etc.
Too many variables need considering. To say that I'm going to pick this element throughout the game is absurd.

[Boom]

is this thread for real?

You can't really be surprised though. It's just one more person shitting up these forums while we're between tests.

Next thread: what height shud i make my character?

[Cloud]

You can't really be surprised though. It's just one more person shitting up these forums while we're between tests.

Next thread: what height shud i make my character?

Definitely going to use tallest for Hyur!
I was actually thinking about this seriously for a bit though...

From a developers standpoint, I would probably make a default armor and texture for each race.
For those races the average height & size will use the default armor and textures.
Whereas the smaller or taller size models will use a compressed or upscaled version of those models.

So in-light of this, picking the average height & size for your race will probably have the most detailed armor and textures.
Not saying this is how it will go, but this is how I would do it to save space and data.

[Emirii]

So far I have been making all my elemental stats the same evening them out. I'm not going to decide whether or not to go with a certain element til I know for sure what effect it has in the game... But If I were to go with certain elements, I'd go with water and ice.

[SheffUK]

Ice.

[Jinko]

Lignhtning if i play a Conjurer, Fire if i play a Gladiator.

[qpoiuwer]

Fire/Wind is the plan. I'm kind of hoping it will affect crafting slightly, but probably not. Looks like the poll is basically following the FFXI damage curve, which is interesting because as far as we know in FFXIV they all do the same damage. Earth sucks though even if it is the best, so that's understandable.

[SephYuyX]

I like picking attributes that I have no idea how they work yet.

[mintyice]

I like picking attributes that I have no idea how they work yet.

exactly

[plue]

Kill it, kill it with FIRE!

[Cureslime]

My primary element type is "you" but it's not a choice...