Can't we just make the battle system like FFXI's?

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Originally Posted by Reika

Only similarities FFXIV is gonna have to FFXI is auto attack, and even that will be faster than FFXI.

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Lol. Not until XIV gets haste or multiple attacks it won't.

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Originally Posted by Xzen

Had jobs at 75 when I left which was max lvl at the time. TP generation was horrid. Spent most of my time watching TV checking back to see if I had enough to WS/skill chain. I quit when they merged my server and I lost my character's name.

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Maybe your gear was subpar? I never had a problem of gaining TP at higher levels.

The problem is they didn't use anything they learned from XI. They scrapped the system completely and tried something way out of their acquired knowledge in MMO battle mechanics and it failed miserably. I think what they are trying to do now is merge what works with what we have currently in XIV, with what worked in XI. A happy medium would be more than welcome.

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Originally Posted by Karbine

The problem is they didn't use anything they learned from XI. They scrapped the system completely and tried something way out of their acquired knowledge in MMO battle mechanics and it failed miserably. I think what they are trying to do now is merge what works with what we have currently in XIV, with what worked in XI. A happy medium would be more than welcome.

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A rational person in my FFXIV forums?! Finally.

FF11battle system was perfect? Can you say Archaic? FF11 was a good game but the battle system was unforgivingly slow, no thank you.

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Originally Posted by rotutu

Maybe your gear was subpar? I never had a problem of gaining TP at higher levels.

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Nope. Had some of the best stuff at the time. The only thing that would have made it a little bit more bearable would have been more haste gear. But I'm sure it would still have been boring.

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Originally Posted by Karbine

The problem is they didn't use anything they learned from XI. They scrapped the system completely and tried something way out of their acquired knowledge in MMO battle mechanics and it failed miserably. I think what they are trying to do now is merge what works with what we have currently in XIV, with what worked in XI. A happy medium would be more than welcome.

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There we go. I could live with that.

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Originally Posted by Demacia

Lol. Not until XIV gets haste or multiple attacks it won't.

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How do we know that? The default attack speed could just be as fast as a person could normally repeat light attacks (which is already a decent amount faster than XI, even with haste...not taking any special weapons into account).

Well in the Dev Team shake up they brought in the Battle Team Lead from FFXI to be the Battle Team Lead in FFXIV now so you never know.

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Originally Posted by Teknoman

How do we know that? The default attack speed could just be as fast as a person could normally repeat light attacks (which is already a decent amount faster than XI, even with haste...not taking any special weapons into account).

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Yeah, but XI doesn't have stamina slowing you down. As it is right now, FFXI is the faster system. Again, not saying XIV should be like XI, but it should at least have haste and real multiple attacks not animations that have multiple hits but only register as one. They even said they changed the attack animations to make combat SEEM faster.