As a part of the media preview spent some time on both a Red Mage plus a Samurai. Both jobs have been a great deal of fun and have been incredibly fascinating even though I by no means was capable to attain any amount of comfort together with the Red Mage. It makes use of each melee and ranged capabilities and I wasn't definitely in a position to dial into how the abilities fit together extremely properly. I feel like it might be the sort of job which definitely shines and does nicely in concert with other jobs but is not as substantially exciting on its personal. It really is also attainable it just didn't click with me simply because I tend to buy FFXIV Gil possess a lot more of an affinity with melee jobs than ranged.
The Samurai on the other hand clicked with me seriously speedily and I had an absolute blast playing it. The gauge program for Samurai is relatively uncomplicated to comply with. Most abilities develop up the Kenki guage (appears like a katana) when others will expend it for stronger hits. Samurai also has the secondary Sen gauge which has three “flowers” and when they are highlighted they will be expended to get a significant hit. Obviously expending all three at the very same time does by far the most damage. I felt like I was dealing fairly very good damage as well but given that issues are still becoming tweaked and balanced it is really difficult to base any conclusions on the numbers I was seeing.
I also preferred the Samurai's style to Red Mage since the animations around the Samurai had been really smooth and all of the skills seemed like they seamlessly flowed from a single towards the subsequent. Also, there have been a fair level of spell effects around the Samurai but none had been genuinely flashy whereas on the Red Mage everything felt flashy and showy which is just not extremely exciting to me. As I pointed out previously my discomfort on the Red Mage in all probability is a single reason why the animation in all probability felt much less smooth to me due to the fact I likely wasn't matching up the abilities correctly at all.
Because Samurais use swords and you will find already lots of swords in Final Fantasy XIV Gil I asked Yoshi-P about if any on the existing swords had been going to become useable as a Samurai. His response was if there's adequate demand for any existing swords to be produced available they would definitely do it, but to bear in mind all the Samurai animations also involve a scabbard so in the event the requested sword would need them to create a new scabbard to be utilized with it, it would tremendously lower the speed at which they could make that readily available. One example is, because of the size and shape in the Odin's Zantetsuken it would not make sense to utilize with all the default scabbard. So, for that sword skin they would have to design a complete new scabbard prior to they could make it accessible.