Hey remember SC > MB? Make it required.

[Arcon]

Fixed and agreed.

Fixed and disagreed.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Fixed and disagreed.

Only if the disagree is about the term lazy as people did not get lazier, they got too impatient to use them.

[Shinzonx]

stop being lazy and just type not everyone wants to hear another guys voice or w/e i dont i perfer typeing

[Tamoa]

stop being lazy and just type not everyone wants to hear another guys voice or w/e i dont i perfer typeing

Um... what?

[Horadrim]

Only if the disagree is about the term lazy as people did not get lazier, they got too impatient to use them.

To be honest, as much as I liked them, the incentive was minimal -- if they want people to do SC+MB they need to greatly increase the bonus damage received for the chain and intensify the effects of bursts. Maybe have them generate positive buffs that can stack over time based on the number of skill chains done within a decent window of time (15 minutes?) and decay over time. Then pair that with decent bonus damage and people would start doing them a lot more.

Right now there's no real reason to coordinate that much aside from nostalgia.

That was the start, and it should have been the warning signs- much like the exp system now, the combat system has significant flaws that it's "marquee feature" of SC/MB is generally ignored in favor of spamming DPS...because spamming DPS is more effective and efficient.

SC's were moving out of the door before CoP even came out. They were honestly barely used even when I was first learning them back in 2003 -- it was mostly the Japanese players perpetuating their use and even when they came up the additional damage in areas like Yhoator Jungle and the like was "meh" worthy. They just seemed new and excited because most NA's were still learning the game back then.