[Varizen]

The development and management teams continue to address the questions and concerns of the community in an ongoing FAQ. The topics addressed this time around are skill points and magic.

View the FAQ.

[Varizen]

Ask the Devs! (11/12/2010)

The development and management teams continue to address the questions and concerns of the community in an ongoing FAQ. The topics addressed this time around are skill points and magic.
Skill Points

Q. How do I get shield skill points?

A. The vast majority of shield skill points are awarded when a player successfully blocks an enemy's attacks with a shield, or deals damage to an opponent using a shield-based attack.



Q. Will there be further balancing to ease the process of ranking up?

A. The late-November patch will bring about significant reductions in the amount of skill points needed to rank up. These changes will make the processing of attaining rank 20 considerably less time-consuming.
Magic

Q. I accidentally selected the wrong spell. How can I interrupt my cast?

A. By selecting the spell being cast from the action bar one more time while casting is still ongoing, the spell may be interrupted. Doing so will cause no depletion of a player's stamina gauge, allowing for the immediate execution of another action.

[Kleiner]

Immediate? Not at all. there's still the old FFXI "can't perform that action" delay all over the place.

[rambus]

Kleiner, on 12 November 2010 - 08:12 PM, said:

Immediate? Not at all. there's still the old FFXI "can't perform that action" delay all over the place.

^that

I do not think that is the best way to stop a spell, esp with the game lag, one may press it more then once because a person may think it didnt go though.

and what about how magic jobs rank slower? and about how shield and main class are both out of the same 500 i hear about?

why are they consered about getting rank 20?

bad FAQ

This post has been edited by rambus: 14 November 2010 - 09:27 PM

[What?]

I dunno, you can see one or two red flags in all of these. It's not just shield and main classes splitting skill points that's an issue, but also the fact that they're still saying you gain points randomly based on actions performed at all. Surely they must know by now people are sick of a RNG deciding how fast they progress and that it should be static based on monster level. I'm sure it's an easy thing to change so it might be tossed in at the last second quietly like they did so often in FFXI, so we'll see.