Did S/E mess up?

[Macht]

Re: Did S/E mess up?

All I can say here is probably just for the sake of logic. FFXI applies more logical structures then any other MMO I've seen. Just look at EQ when you get silenced your weapons can't proc a spell, you can't drink any potions, he'll a Warrior can't use his skills and those are not even spells. Just the way the system is built it thinks they are and treats them that way. The EQ developers don't even try to fix this obvious illogical structure, I mean how is you being able to speak suppose to effect an enchanted weapon and stop it from doing it's own spell. How the hell is not speaking translate to not being able to drink? Then also last I remember you don't need your voice to perform a special techniqe with a weapon.

So for the sake of logic with the background they've given PUP it makes sense that they'd be able to use and have some skill in using items that are all job, likely more will be implimented to further expand on that logic. For any mage job though it just makes sense that they'd be able to equip items that have stats on them and can be considered light and are a charm, enchanted, or magical in some way.

Not neccisarily that they are skilled at hitting the broad side of a barn with what they throw, if they happen to throw it.

[Dracovivi]

Re: Did S/E mess up?

I mean how is you being able to speak suppose to effect an enchanted weapon and stop it from doing it's own spell. How the hell is not speaking translate to not being able to drink? Then also last I remember you don't need your voice to perform a special techniqe with a weapon.

Maybe it "stitches" your mouth shut, therefor unable to drink... and maybe there is some sort of "enchantment" you say to perform your special technique with a weapon (Street Fighter for example, among others)

But ya for the most part you fair to be correct. S/E's attempt at player/game balance.

[Macht]

Re: Did S/E mess up?

Maybe it "stitches" your mouth shut, therefor unable to drink... and maybe there is some sort of "enchantment" you say to perform your special technique with a weapon (Street Fighter for example, among others)
But ya for the most part you fair to be correct. S/E's attempt at player/game balance.

Well the Kiai/Kihap/Yatz or whatever you like to call it (What Street Figher uses) is not neccisary for you to vocally express. As long as you can exhale to tighten the stomach, the most fluent and powerful strikes are all about form and beathing.

Hell in some training places they express explicitly that the Kiai should only have a sound if you are attempting to physcology mess with your opponent. Otherwise to perform the move sound isn't needed. Just to point when I stated a special technique with a Warrior I ment stuff like multiple attacks, a stunning strike, and even something that more related to evading (like Third Eye).

Stitching the mouth shut though isn't exactly silencing them, but you can go about trying to cover the programming flaw by using that logic.