What the hell even is a measure!
And the prosecution rests.Originally Posted by Fynn
Turns out the Measures actually got a bit of a buff. They do unreduced damage as always but now have a 70% chance to inflict their status on hit, and they also power up a particular element each. And since they're one-handed you can still equip a shield. Perfect for spellcasting, right?
Oh wait, there's only one job who ever gets ANY of the Measure licenses, and that is the Machinist, who has a whopping zero shield and elemental magic licenses, making both those properties completely smurfing useless. They're useless as offense since Guns do the same kind of unreduced damage except they're ranged and way more powerful and don't cause positive statuses. And as defense? Okay 35% block chance well and good but why the hell is your ranged gun user slash supporter getting attacked again? So their only real use outside of tremendously specific situations is to inflict buffs, which still requires you to damage your own party member and you just know that 70% chance is going to fail every time you're in a real tight spot.
Screw measures. Their best feature is that you can sell them for a couple thousand gil whenever you find one.
No, but I mean like, really. What is it. I look at the pictures and I don't know what I'm looking at. A google search for "measure weapon" only gives me FFXII results.
So they improve measures to the point that they might be of some interesting use by spellcasters (making them do full damage is still pretty crap though) and then only give it to the machinist. How does that make sense?!
This helped me to understand a bit: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Measures#Measures
They're apparently these things that you hit party members with and then stuff happens.
I get that.
But what real life thing are they supposed to represent? As in, what kind of physical object are they? Because I have no smurfing clue just looking at them.
Sextants and measuring sticks, from the looks of them.
And how is that a good idea for a weapon.
I can't even.
They were running out of ideas, and had a few licences left on the grid to fill in? Really, if they made them do barely any damage to your team members (like, 1-10) and stuck buffs on more readily, they could definitely be more useful as a support weapon for your mages.
if only there were gambits to attack party members...
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
"Are you feeling down, buddy? Here, let me just SMACK YOU IN THE HEAD WITH THIS FRIGGIN' COMPASS!!!"
Surely Ally: Penelo and the like works fine with attack.
Of course, telling them to stop after the buff has been applied would be more helpful. To be honest, if you really wanted to use measures for the buffs, you may as well just direct them to use it manually.
are you sure it works with attack?
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
I don't see why not.
I mean, not that I've ever made that combination before, because why the hell would you? I guess in an emergency you could do Ally: Status - Confuse and Attack together as a high priority. Hilariously, the measure would be arguably the best weapon for that job.
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