Looking back at the Final Fantasy universe, will Pantheon use a Elemental Strength/Weakness system? Here are some examples of past FF Elemental Strength/Weakness charts. For example looking at the first chart for Water & Fire. Water strength spells are strong againt mobs who are elementally aligned with Fire while Fire based attacks are weak against Water aligned mobs. I read in another thread that there will be weather which can affect a battle, I was just wondering if the combat system will include elemental attacks/defense.
I know they have mentioned weakness and strength types of damage to mobs. Though I doubt they would be using FF style system. I know that they did talk about in the last stream, having blunt damage be more effective in one situation and like piercing in another. Im pretty sure with the weather and atmosphere systems it would be in effect for different damage types. And they have given brief examples of Druid controlling a storm to step up a other classes lightening damage.
So expect to see a similar system in place, but not likely the same.
Amsai said:I know they have mentioned weakness and strength types of damage to mobs. Though I doubt they would be using FF style system. I know that they did talk about in the last stream, having blunt damage be more effective in one situation and like piercing in another. Im pretty sure with the weather and atmosphere systems it would be in effect for different damage types. And they have given brief examples of Druid controlling a storm to step up a other classes lightening damage.
So expect to see a similar system in place, but not likely the same.
Agreed
If nothing else, although I would be highly amused, Im sure ghost trains wont be weak to suplexes ^.^
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=suplex+a+train&view=detail&mid=876B35E5F153826E588C876B35E5F153826E588C&FORM=VIRE
What damage type would that be classified as?
Amsai, for reference in the most recent stream there were several instances where, for example, Cohh attacked a skeleton (I think it was Cohh, maybe it was Aradune). Anyway, both of them use slashing weapons, so when the damage registered there was a message in the combat log indicating something like "maybe this weapon is ineffective vs [the monster's name, it was cut off]". I believe we can reasonably conclude that the fundaments of the system are in place already.
In other words, TIME TO BRING BACK BANISH BABY YEAH.
If I underrstand correctly there may be some enviromnental impacts, and colored mana. So if it is a hot or- elemental fire type environment, you would need either better resist gear or resistance to the hot environment. Likewise- say the fire envirponment would cause red mana spells to be week or ineffective, in which case you would need to switch to blue mana. A glimpse of this was on the first twitch stream where the monster trains them all at the end while they are in the safe spot in town ( which was GREAT!)
Lets not overlook that EQ1, EQ2, etc all had resistances in their game mechanics. Shooting a fire spell at a Fire Elemental in the Plane of Fire? Worthless. Ice spell? Near 100% hits every time. So for spells anyway casters had to be more careful than melee classes. To see this expanded to include melee as well is something I'm wanting to experience.
Vandraad said:Lets not overlook that EQ1, EQ2, etc all had resistances in their game mechanics. Shooting a fire spell at a Fire Elemental in the Plane of Fire? Worthless. Ice spell? Near 100% hits every time. So for spells anyway casters had to be more careful than melee classes. To see this expanded to include melee as well is something I'm wanting to experience.
Given that they said in the last stream that monsters have body types such as scale, bone, flesh ect i think we can asume melee will have to worry about this as well. they even mentioned avoiding slashing weapons with slimes lest you split them into two slimes.