Beta roadmap has been updatedFollow

80% universal cap, and this was only put into play shortly after a few videos/reports were being filtered back to SE about just how ridiculous it might be letting the universal, magical, and JA haste amounts not actually capping. I remember quite a few videos a group did with a WAR/SAM way back in the day with Apocalypse Neigh was still fairly difficult. Due to stacking as much haste as possible for magical and JA he was able to get close to a 98% reduction -- the entire BCNM fight was over within 15 seconds because of how ridiculous the WAR's damage was running with an 11/12 delay (1/6~ of a second) 2 handed weapon was.

And Atkascha, no, there was a "global" ability wait timer that was essentially 1 second for all job abilities and 2~ for anything that was casted or a weapon skill -- all the Fast Cast/Haste in the world wouldn't budge those locks so you *could* consider them GCDs in a sense.

Will mid-battle gear switching be allowed in XIV? I always felt this was one of the features of XI which detracted from the immersion the game provided. It seems absurd to be switching armor in the middle of a battle... (granted we are talking about a game where you are battling goblins with creatures which resemble Ewoks using magic.)

I'm glad to hear that. I wasn't sure if people liked that feature or not... I for one thought that it was absolutely ridiculous.

I agree with this sentiment. I enjoy being immersed in the battles; swapping out armor in the middle, I think, ruins the feeling. I can buy switching weapons, but changing one's pants mid-battle feels cheesy. I didn't mind it so much in xi because of the grinding, but my opinion is that it would seem out place in arr. I did have a chance to participate in some testing so I'm sure about that statement.

That's absolutely valid, and as it should be.

However the whole "Excuse Bahamut would you give me a minute here? I need to take this sexy subligar off real quick and slip into something a littttttle more comfortable if you don't mind" scenario is a bit more silly.

My impression is that people are complaining that combat isn't engaging enough. I then take the suggestion to shorten it as a fallacious idea that faster/busier = better.



As a gameplay mechanic it wasn't bad (although completely unintentional)--the implementation was bad (again, because it wasn't intentional). The idea of every class being able to situationally alter their statistics created a depth of gameplay that wouldn't have existed otherwise. Unfortunately, the vertical emphasis usually prevented those decisions from being strategically meaningful--it provided something of a twitch/RTS element to the gameplay.

Looks like we are going to have another black out of ARR before Launch just like this one from beta phase 2 to 3.. phase 3 and 4 + the debug is only a little over a month. Probably have to wait some of July and almost all of Aug.. Unless you are a preorder! ;)

It says partially lifted hm i wonder why. Well a portion of the NDA will be lifted in phase 3 so i am guessing when they say partially lifted in 4 it will pretty much be all. I bet they wont allow to post pictures or videos etc. Don't see the point since so many people will be playing and also there is no way that many people will keep their mouth shut.

I think he means that according to the beta roadmap, phase 4 says it still has a partial NDA in place, which seems odd considering the game will be open beta for anyone to play.

I recall we were discussing gear swapping mid-battle while I was listening to this "podcast" or whatever you tech people are calling this sort of thing these days (does saying podcast make me sound outdated ?)

Anyways, it's a good listen, and if you are only interested in the portion regarding gear swapping, they discuss it at approximately 1:20... Overall it's some random youtube person plus a write at massively.com who follows XIV ARR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDh5dG3Dzc