If You Could Improve XI

Yes, I am a keyboard player, and the thought of tabbing through all possible targets hoping to eventually target the right one made me reel, hence why I asked if that's what you actually do. Never used a gamepad, so thanks for clarifying.

Remove all bloody doors from the game.

Invisible butlers opens doors for you when you get close to them, ala FFXIV ? (lol)

I can't imagine how people don't play with keyboard this game. I never touched anything other than keyboard in 8 years or whatever. Works perfectly.

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I play with both, but can't stand not having a controller.

when i play~

i play with a controller

on the pc.

I'm used to play on both and honestly gamepad wins by a long stretch. People need 3rd party helper stuff because they insist on using keyboard only.

But I suppose we all agree on one thing:

FFXI is unplayable with a mouse.

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Making WHM have A+ club rating, and increase their str stat.

I AH without a mouse. XBox controller on PC, with a G-Series keyboard.

This makes no sense.

Like many other things in this thread.

Yeah, I wasn't able to grasp the logic behind that statement either.

I was nitpicking at gear swapping and "automatic casting" plugins for windower :P

Bloody doors? Using a mouse? Man - think BIG!

I say tie achievements into free play.. for example - 100% Sandy quest = 1 month free play

I say a new avatar - MH moogle - summon a moogle -can even be a 1 HR. your party can use it to change jobs and access mog safe/storage on the fly.

I say create TRUE relic (REM) GEAR, that compliments REM weapons - they can make the item the end all for that slot (for that REM weapon). Make it tuff and just as hard as a relic weapon - all for 1 slot.

Speak for yourself. Its all about comfort level. I have always played on keyboard and i can still do everything just as well as a gamepad. Having to put the gamepad down to start typing or something irked me. Assuming we aren't using skype for the event, keyboard kills two birds with one stone.

aka, can't have it both ways.

I just don't type. I'm usually too busy spamming curaga, cursna or stona to bother with typing.

Its possible use both keyboard and controller.

The thing i dislike in keyboard is movement control. Personally i think more ergonomic using thumbs for movement and camera instead using other fingers. But controller dont have the multi options to bind. So, i use the most crucial actions binded like stun. Sliding between macros to hit stun can be problematic when youre using 2 chars, binding stun in space makes fast just dropping the hand from controller and hit the button.

-go to north
-go to Far East
-go to south

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From personal experience I'd dare to say that habit > objective differences.
It kinda gives you a bias, a rightful and well justified one, towards one peripheral or the other.

Personally I'm a fan of the gamepad (I use it with the keyboard. A lot of stuff when I'm on mage jobs I just cast it with short commands thanks to Shortcuts now, and Spellcast before. I also use it to type of course) but I also think that aside from personal tastes/habits keyboard can lead to better performance.

The point is that FFXI is not FFXIV or WoW, you hardly need those fast timings and the game has quite a huge lag from input to execution. It just has an overall slower pace.
So even after having said this, I don't think the difference is as huge as some people wants to make it; gamepad is not as bad as many people think it is.

#1 Engine update. That DirectX 8.1 needs to be upgraded. Keeps everything else the same.

#2 Instant gear swapping needs to go. Probably introduce something like 5sec delay to swap gear.

#3 Update with a bit more dynamic battles. Party vs. 1-3 targets at a time needs to be party vs hordes of mobs. The solid target lock delay needs to go. Allows 2H weapons to have large AOE mode for multiple targets. Tanks with AOE hate grab. 1H with higher raw single target damage than 2H.

#4 Reshuffle melee jobs along with new dynamic battles. Allows 2H knight-class (heavy armor) jobs to have similar damage taken reduction as tanks with access to AOE hate grab to allow them to tank with hordes. Greatly increases 1H raw damage against single targets. Greatly increases Shield utility (other than just blocking) with stun, AOE effects, reduce allies damage/debuff effects, deals lots more damage (15-30sec abilities), more shield affecting magic for Pld, more shield affecting abilities for War, Bst...etc.

#5 Split buffs and debuffs duties between the backline jobs. Make is so that people will always be missing some important buffs/debuffs even with 3-4 backline party members. Elemental magic users = strong AOE and single target nukes. Divine magic users = very strong against undead/demons/constructs with buffs and nukes. Bards = haste/acc buffs only. Healing = heal/regen/defense. Enfeebles magic users = weakens target dmg, def, atk speed and general crowd control. Enhancing magic users = attack, haste, DA, crits, damage reduction party buffs. Pet jobs = allows pet selection to buff/debuff same as other jobs but reduce pet switching.

#6 party swap + buffs abuse needs to go away. Probably make it so you will lose the buffs without that party member in your party.

I'd overhaul SC and MB with the enmity system.

Enmity from the SC and subsequent MB damage values are stacked onto the player that opened the initial SC.

The enmity from the total damage would be calculated the same way as CE and VE values, except with its own category that is added on top of VE and CE caps.

Keep the SC/MB increased enmity cap low so the tank has to keep capped or near capped CE/VE values at all times to maintain hate. This forces people to pay attention, fosters team work, and makes tanks relevant again.

Make enemies have slightly less HP, substantially more melee capability, and counter zerg measures. Lower HP to compensate for the lack of Zerging ability, higher melee attacks to discourage HP sponging, and anti zerg measures to make it stick.

Oh wow, i just got it. I was thinking about FFTactics (PS version) whilst bumming pages out.

Cloud as a trust!!

Hell, all the old characters from Final Fantasy games. AS TRUSTS!
Even the newer ones like FFXIII if you like.

Change the name to FFXI - Trust. And Bob is your uncle.

Can you imagine running around with a Cloud with that Buster Sword waving about?

*edit* If this gets implemented 6 months down the line and we're all running around with Cloud/Barret/Aeris parties, I'm taking credit btw.

lol they did that on FFXIV with Lightning, no ?

Back to an actual suggestion: daken should work for any range weapon. It would fit soooo perfectly for cor/nin, imagine meleeing and randomly throwing shots in. Nin would still have a superior version thanks to the much higher activation rate, but shouldn't be shuriken onry.

Jokes on the internet alert the proper authorities.


Also PS2 limitations !

"The game was developed and ran on the Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti GPU"

Behold the power!

gO PLAY wow YOU JUST DESCRIBED IT.

I'll take #1, but aside from that "meh"

But I'll take removing gear swapping while engaged, yeah.

The inventory issue was always one of my biggest complaints. I certainly don't miss that part of the game.

Spending time sorting and sending things just to play your job is a major drag.