To me, while the story, and certain aspects of this expansion exceed the quality of other expansions, there is something lacking, and I feel its important to say.
Half baked
I'm sorry I have to say this. This is not out of frustration, or anger, but out of solid disappointment.
I know not everyone is going to agree, but I think its important to recognize the significance of these points, as if this trend were to continue, we will begin to see more and more unfinished and unfleshed out parts of other articles of content.
Most importantly, if we are getting less dungeons, unfleshed out jobs, unfleshed out races, less content overall,
what are we getting instead?
And do we enjoy said content?
>>Look at Blue Mage.
How many people are actually doing alexander savage as Blue Mage?
I think it was said 1-5% of the playerbase does savage, and lets say 80% of the playerbase levels Blue Mage, which is 100% a wrong number but I'm purposefully inflating it for this point, how many of those 80% of people leveling BLU are doing savage with it? 1-5%? so going off that, we're looking around less than 1% of the playerbase to at maximum 3% of the playerbase who is doing savage for the mount. Is this what we want?
Conversely how many people are Hrothgar, how many are Viera? how many do dungeons? I personally feel content, races, glamour, and most importantly jobs, should absolutely take presidence over content created for less than 1% -3% of the playerbase.
To me Hrothgar, Viera, Gunbreaker and Dancer all feel like limited jobs and races.
I am very disappointed in these four aspects of the expansion. I feel these were very poorly implemented, and clearly rushed.
While I do not play as Hrothgar or Viera, I could not imagine being either race.
Race:
Hair-
Each race severely lack in hairstyle options, including but not limited to the purchased ones from the mogstation. I find this a critical issue, as some people have paid a premium amount for hair styles, and character changes, (fantasia's) and are unable to utilize them on a specific race. We are going into 5.2 and there seems to be no actions about addressing these issues....
Headgear-
Each race, not only does not have access to numerous pieces of headgear, but It is also important to note, that some outfits, such as Darksteel or other similar models were released so that the head of these races were able to come out and clip through the head piece of the gear, which was, to say the least, a very disturbing sight.
Outfits-
Lastly, Hrothgar and Viera both completely lack their own race specific hempen sets, which this isnt as large of an issue as the above mentioned, but now my personal opinion, should either 100% get their own designed, or all races should have unlocked hempen sets, as it is not right for Roegadyn and Hyur to have to share while no other race can. (or conversely, Hrothgar and Viera lack unique sets.)
Jobs:
Sounds-
To me the sounds of GNB and DNC are lacking greatly. Thinking of actions like Flare, Holy, Circle of Scorn, Midare Setsugekka, Mudra, and such, GNB and DNC to me, lack significantly in the sound aspect of the job. Each action sounds almost identical, and nothing seems unique.
Animations-
Following the previously mentioned issue, GNB and DNC lack also in the animation department. Actions like Flare, Holy, Circle of Scorn, the screen does a little shake for those actions, adding to the flare and uniqueness of the job, giving them that extra "umph" if you so please. GNB and DNC, completely lack any unique animations. In fact, GNB the animations for their combo, look almost exactly identical. These were issues brought up about 1.0 and now have returned....
Weapons-
Probably the most important issue about these jobs to me, are their lack of weapons options. I understand its time consuming to create weapons, but..... the fact that Square-Enix openly stated they have no plans to create primal weapons for these jobs is to me, quite alarming.
Quote:
"Q54:
Do you have any plans to add crafted primal weapons for gunbreaker and dancer?
A54:
Sorry, we don't have the free resources to account for this at the moment. The character team might slowly work on it between patches, but I can’t say "we’ll do it.""
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ns#post5126751
In closing, Blue Mage is nothing what it was said it was going to be.
Blue Mage is not a solo job. It cannot solo most content other jobs can solo, and if it can, its not any faster.
Blue mage is not Overpowered, see point made above.
Blue Mage is not a party job, but we knew that, yet now they are trying to force us into BLU only parties, and people are now having the very discussions about if they should keep a BLU in party without certain actions, the very reason they said they wanted to make BLU limited in the first place.
What blue mage is turning out to be, is their way of how 2.0 relics were created, something to encourage people to do "dead content" instead of making dead content appealing by adding say a time record so players can compete for world records, and have their names displayed in game. Similar to FFXI. Etc.
TLDR
Are you willing to give up Job animations uniqueness, and glamour options, Race uniqueness, and more glamour options for content like Blue Mage savage mount.
Continue reading...
Half baked
I'm sorry I have to say this. This is not out of frustration, or anger, but out of solid disappointment.
I know not everyone is going to agree, but I think its important to recognize the significance of these points, as if this trend were to continue, we will begin to see more and more unfinished and unfleshed out parts of other articles of content.
Most importantly, if we are getting less dungeons, unfleshed out jobs, unfleshed out races, less content overall,
what are we getting instead?
And do we enjoy said content?
>>Look at Blue Mage.
How many people are actually doing alexander savage as Blue Mage?
I think it was said 1-5% of the playerbase does savage, and lets say 80% of the playerbase levels Blue Mage, which is 100% a wrong number but I'm purposefully inflating it for this point, how many of those 80% of people leveling BLU are doing savage with it? 1-5%? so going off that, we're looking around less than 1% of the playerbase to at maximum 3% of the playerbase who is doing savage for the mount. Is this what we want?
Conversely how many people are Hrothgar, how many are Viera? how many do dungeons? I personally feel content, races, glamour, and most importantly jobs, should absolutely take presidence over content created for less than 1% -3% of the playerbase.
To me Hrothgar, Viera, Gunbreaker and Dancer all feel like limited jobs and races.
I am very disappointed in these four aspects of the expansion. I feel these were very poorly implemented, and clearly rushed.
While I do not play as Hrothgar or Viera, I could not imagine being either race.
Race:
Hair-
Each race severely lack in hairstyle options, including but not limited to the purchased ones from the mogstation. I find this a critical issue, as some people have paid a premium amount for hair styles, and character changes, (fantasia's) and are unable to utilize them on a specific race. We are going into 5.2 and there seems to be no actions about addressing these issues....
Headgear-
Each race, not only does not have access to numerous pieces of headgear, but It is also important to note, that some outfits, such as Darksteel or other similar models were released so that the head of these races were able to come out and clip through the head piece of the gear, which was, to say the least, a very disturbing sight.
Outfits-
Lastly, Hrothgar and Viera both completely lack their own race specific hempen sets, which this isnt as large of an issue as the above mentioned, but now my personal opinion, should either 100% get their own designed, or all races should have unlocked hempen sets, as it is not right for Roegadyn and Hyur to have to share while no other race can. (or conversely, Hrothgar and Viera lack unique sets.)
Jobs:
Sounds-
To me the sounds of GNB and DNC are lacking greatly. Thinking of actions like Flare, Holy, Circle of Scorn, Midare Setsugekka, Mudra, and such, GNB and DNC to me, lack significantly in the sound aspect of the job. Each action sounds almost identical, and nothing seems unique.
Animations-
Following the previously mentioned issue, GNB and DNC lack also in the animation department. Actions like Flare, Holy, Circle of Scorn, the screen does a little shake for those actions, adding to the flare and uniqueness of the job, giving them that extra "umph" if you so please. GNB and DNC, completely lack any unique animations. In fact, GNB the animations for their combo, look almost exactly identical. These were issues brought up about 1.0 and now have returned....
Weapons-
Probably the most important issue about these jobs to me, are their lack of weapons options. I understand its time consuming to create weapons, but..... the fact that Square-Enix openly stated they have no plans to create primal weapons for these jobs is to me, quite alarming.
Quote:
"Q54:
Do you have any plans to add crafted primal weapons for gunbreaker and dancer?
A54:
Sorry, we don't have the free resources to account for this at the moment. The character team might slowly work on it between patches, but I can’t say "we’ll do it.""
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ns#post5126751
In closing, Blue Mage is nothing what it was said it was going to be.
Blue Mage is not a solo job. It cannot solo most content other jobs can solo, and if it can, its not any faster.
Blue mage is not Overpowered, see point made above.
Blue Mage is not a party job, but we knew that, yet now they are trying to force us into BLU only parties, and people are now having the very discussions about if they should keep a BLU in party without certain actions, the very reason they said they wanted to make BLU limited in the first place.
What blue mage is turning out to be, is their way of how 2.0 relics were created, something to encourage people to do "dead content" instead of making dead content appealing by adding say a time record so players can compete for world records, and have their names displayed in game. Similar to FFXI. Etc.
TLDR
Are you willing to give up Job animations uniqueness, and glamour options, Race uniqueness, and more glamour options for content like Blue Mage savage mount.
Continue reading...