Combat still too slow. We need a shorter Global Cooldown!

No thanks, I like combat the way it is right now. It's a nice change of pace from all of those super fast, button mashing, action games these days.

There are games such as FPS shooter is separate genre.

Pacing is fine as it is imo, i like the ability to think between skills instead of blind button smashing.

I really like the combat right now! Add me to the list of happy peoples!

I have no problem with the GCD, but I do wish they'd make animation and latency delays smoother. Skills that are off the GCD, such as instant buffs, still take time to use consecutively as you need to wait for each animation to finish before you can trigger the next skill. Compared to things like WoW and SWTOR it feels clunky and slow. :/

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Originally Posted by Meimei

I have no problem with the GCD, but I do wish they'd make animation and latency delays smoother. Skills that are off the GCD, such as instant buffs, still take time to use consecutively as you need to wait for each animation to finish before you can trigger the next skill. Compared to things like WoW and SWTOR it feels clunky and slow. :/

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100 times this. I thought the 2.5 recast time was my problem. Animations blocking use of skills is what's really starting to urk me.

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Originally Posted by nasomi

You have some serious ADD issues... You couldn't possibly have handled XI, you had to wait for 100tp to be granted before you could use an ability. This isn't tekken where you're mashing buttons, it's supposed to be methodical and paced. What's the rush to jam more buttons?

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If I were not a tank, I would be inclined to agree with you. It's no fun mostly autoattacking a boss waiting on that cast to stun.

This is because the GCD is so long that we do not have time to activate our stun if we had just used a skill before the start of the spell cast. Now this could be fixed by taking our shield slam off the GCD and giving it a 5 second CD. Do that, and I would be happy with leaving the GCD as it is.

Speed is fine. I'm glad this game isn't as twitchy as most other MMO's.

That said, please take pet commands off my global cooldown. It makes using Garuda-Egi a real pain since her knockback is frowned upon, and we're mostly forced to use "Obey" and manually control her so she doesn't make tanks upset.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

I wanna go fast!



There are no plans to adjust the rate of the GCD, but there are ways to speed up your skill and spell speeds through the use of food, different gear, and materia as well.

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Thank you !! Great answer. I don't want Final Fantasy to turn into another mash bash mmorpg. GCD is fine as it is.

Shorter global would probably be bad. It would expose how bad the coding/animation really is in this game. The 2.5 global actually covers for the fact that the combat isn't very responsive/smooth (At least if you've played a game with fast/responsive combat, like WoW, Tera, or GW2)