Battle System Focusing on Syngergy

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Abdalla Al-amemi says
What the developers meant by the term "wheel of adventurers" and its importance of timing in battle will come in the shape of an expanded concept of synergy. This synergy would put emphasis on jobs and weapons.

As an example, Warriors using Great Axe can constantly break the enemies guard by smashing it left and right during the barrage of attacks, whereas a Dagger, Ranged or one handed user can unleash a deadly attack on the weak spots of an enemy. Doing so would not be possible if the Warrior had not broken the enemy's guard with a Great Axe.

The same synergy can be said about casters. Perhaps timing your nukes when you see there is a certain window of oppurtunity caused by a Thief, who made that oppurtunity by taking advantage of the oppurtunity the Warrior gave him.

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2:03pm, Friday 12th June, 2009
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Ariska's Comment:
One of the main focuses that Final Fantasy XI notoriously lacked was serious teamplay. Outside of the experience party environment and the occasional event or high level monster, there was next to zero emphasis on teamwork, nor the encouragement to work together as a team to explore new methods of handling stereotyped situations.

In fact, the only synergy one can really think of in experience situations is the act of magic bursting, whereby a Black Mage must cast a spell within a certain time frame after two of the group's melee jobs have performed weapon skills, thus making a skillchain.

It's this lack of encouraged synergy in Final Fantasy 11 that really makes me hope we see it in Final Fantasy 14. If it appears in the shape that Abdalla has envisioned, we can be sure it'll be a successful, productive system.

Having the classes work off one another to heighten their attributes and make them stronger is an encouragement that will help people sample new ideas and not progress with the accepted mainstream styles. The only job that you could really describe as varying per party members in Final Fantasy XI is Corsair, whose rolls were more potent if that job was in the same party or not.

It'd be swell to think that everyone is encouraged to play together and try working off each other to produce more powerful combos. If this is introduced in Final Fantasy XIV, it will be another development that will help set the game apart from its competitors.

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