New Abilities/Limit Breaks?

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Originally Posted by Combinatoric

I like the concept, and sadly I think you may be right about SC/MB. If they could come up with something that's a mixture of both it would be awesome.

I'm thinking something like: when anyone hits a limit break, it opens a 2-3 second window where any other player in the group can hit their limit break action too. The final result of the limit break is then based on what combination of classes used the action during that window

I just worry that there may end up being an "always best" combination of classes to use. Maybe make the combination determine elemental type of the damage? I.e., use DRG + WHM for wind damage against titan.

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I agree that that's the problem bands should solve, not being a completely superior job combo, because they'd all have near equal usefulness. People still trying to stack X jobs for Y band abilitiy because its superior. Hopefully if they did ever implement this they'd balance it so that it didnt defeat the purpose its meant to serve in a sense.

And wow I really like your idea about how when someone starts their limit break theres a window where someone else can execute their's for a stronger effect.Though there would need to be some sort of penalty to doing that. Just using the LB drains the gauge. but using a team limit break needs to incur some deeper penalty to keep balance and not making it the only option to do when its up. Like there should be reasons to use it over Final Heaven for instance, but not to ALWAYS use it over it.

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Originally Posted by Combinatoric

I like the concept, and sadly I think you may be right about SC/MB.

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Yeah i doubt they'd make skillchains because in the end even though they've been taking aspects from tons of other mmos and the rest of the ff universe they probably want to still keep this game ff14, adding too many features from XI would make it ffxi 2.0 which they don't want. SCs and MBs are already unique to another FF mmo and thats XI.

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Originally Posted by Mars_Feroshia

I agree that the problem would exactly what bands should solve. People still trying to stack X jobs for Y band abilitiy because its superior. Hopefully if they did ever implement this they'd balance it so that it didnt defeat the purpose its meant to serve in a sense.

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Going off your original comment(idk how to double quote) and my response to it, it would be ffxi merit birds all over again. Only a handfull of people with X job would be invited because their abilities were more superior and less situational. Then you'd just have a ton of people not getting invite because they like a certain job. And we see that problem arising now in the game where people really only want BRDs(from what i've seen preferring BRD DD) over other DDs

I seriously like this idea, and I could have sworn I had read something about this wanting to be implemented ages ago, but I seriously don't remember where so I could be wrong, but this would be soooo cool. I really hope a dev reads this and gives us their opinion >< this would give a whooolleee new level of team play.

That'd be nice if they did take a look at this, but im not going to get my hopes up. Seems like a pretty good idea to me; although it probably is too complicated for them to implement something like this