I totally agree with the Pro comments made, but I'd like to add some more Con:
The world feels very empty, This is especially true in Ul'dah where you can literally walk for miles before seeing anything other than a rock. Mobs are repeated. A lot. And finding things that are somewhat around your level is a excercise in futility as many times the mobs that are just the right level for you will share spawn points with things that either waste your weapons durability or kill you with a strong glare.
Leveling up your ranks is essentially spamming you're basic attack over...and over...and over. Unfortunately the system favors repetition over efficiency so if you know that you can kill that squirrel in one massive fireball of doom due to your stat allotment and its elemental weakness....then the fireball of doom is the LAST thing you want to cast as you wont get jack for skill points.
Advice: If you are planning on playing on a gamepad the default key mapping is horribly limited, especially given the games lack of accurate targetting. I'd suggest picking up a 3rd party mapping program such as Pinnacle Game Profiler (30 day free trial, $20 US to purchase) or Switchblade Pro ($2/month license fee) I've also heard good things about Xpadder but I havent used that myself.
Anyway, the point of this is to remap the keys the way you want, including mapping traditional mouse controls to one of the analog keys and using a "Switch" trigger to make them do different things depending on if the switch is held down. To give you an idea, I used to do this in other MMOs that werent gamepad compatible and on a regular xbox controller I got 36 button combinations to work. You can also use both the program and the default gamepad controls, if you're sneaky.
The world feels very empty, This is especially true in Ul'dah where you can literally walk for miles before seeing anything other than a rock. Mobs are repeated. A lot. And finding things that are somewhat around your level is a excercise in futility as many times the mobs that are just the right level for you will share spawn points with things that either waste your weapons durability or kill you with a strong glare.
Leveling up your ranks is essentially spamming you're basic attack over...and over...and over. Unfortunately the system favors repetition over efficiency so if you know that you can kill that squirrel in one massive fireball of doom due to your stat allotment and its elemental weakness....then the fireball of doom is the LAST thing you want to cast as you wont get jack for skill points.
Advice: If you are planning on playing on a gamepad the default key mapping is horribly limited, especially given the games lack of accurate targetting. I'd suggest picking up a 3rd party mapping program such as Pinnacle Game Profiler (30 day free trial, $20 US to purchase) or Switchblade Pro ($2/month license fee) I've also heard good things about Xpadder but I havent used that myself.
Anyway, the point of this is to remap the keys the way you want, including mapping traditional mouse controls to one of the analog keys and using a "Switch" trigger to make them do different things depending on if the switch is held down. To give you an idea, I used to do this in other MMOs that werent gamepad compatible and on a regular xbox controller I got 36 button combinations to work. You can also use both the program and the default gamepad controls, if you're sneaky.
~Tzain Nival (Balmung)
