2012-11-21, 11:14 AM
Sephie Wrote:The history of 4th Job Heroes:
Brandish -> 1 Swing 1 Stab, 2 Hits
Intrepid Slash -> 2 Swings 1 Stab, 3 Hits
Raging Blow -> 1 Swing 1 Stab, 5 Hits
Raging Blow rev1 -> 1 Swing 1 Stab, 6 Hits
The history of 4th Job Paladins:
ACB -> 1 Swing, 1 Hit
ACB rev1 -> 1 Swing, 2 Hits
ACB rev2 -> 1 Swing, 6 Hits
Blast -> 1 Stab, 1 Hit
Blast rev1 -> 1 Stab, 3 Hits
Blast rev2 -> 1 Stab, 4 Hits
Blast rev3 -> 1 Stab, 6 Hits
Blast rev4 -> 1 Stab, 7 Hits
Not even going to mention where FA and AFA come into this.
How much more ridiculous can this get? Sooner or later, poking a monster with your finger will somehow manifest into 15 different sources of damage.
At least before there was the concept of "Well they wanted to boost the range of this class, but they have this 999,999 damage cap, so this is a way to make them stronger without making them way too broken." But...yeah...that's kinda gone. With no solid cap this increase in hits makes no sense.
Hell, for Kanna and Hayato instead of even bothering with low hits all their end abilities do either ridiculously fast successive hits, or plain out a ton of hits. Kanna has a SECOND JOB ability that does 10 hits, and a third job ability that can do up to 15. At least in the case of the 15-hitter it's because of the Meso Explosion-esk skill and its mechanics(So it's actually doing those 15 hits in animations), but for the rest of her skills? I just don't get it, because most of them don't have an animation of more than 1 hit either.
The single worst part of this isn't the fact that there's so many numbers, but the fact that they literally blind you. I miss sealing bosses because the damage numbers cover their Super Defense and I cannot see when it ends if I don't have an ally doing the armor's damage type. They added some new fancy effects for HP bars (where the lost health turns red and then goes away slowly), but who can see it? The numbers cover the HP bar. Do you see that cool background for the area you're in? Oh you only see numbers? Yeah me too.