Personal Limit Breaks

I would like it but it would seriously break the game unless LBs were nerfed into the ground.

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Originally Posted by Kaethra

Tank LBs would be defensive based, but only on themselves.

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So just a new CD ability? Sounds rather boring.

OP, you have a personal LB, it's called Flare

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

So just a new CD ability? Sounds rather boring.

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A spammable LB is never going to be added to the game. Why use anything else if you could just mash a 400 potency attack over and over?

Limit Break is a really bad mechanic, even if we got personal level 1 ones, the tank and healer ones are still worse than our general cooldowns (ie Sentinel, Indomitability).

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Originally Posted by Feidam

It sucks that we have these job specific cool animations that few ever get to see.

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Personally I hated that they took away my Meteor... wish LB3 were still based on role.

I find it bitterly funny how this has already been done and implemented in PvP but has gone unnoticed. . .

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Originally Posted by Zojha

Personally? I'd prefer it. Just about every character in Final Fantasy had their own, personal limit break, so it being a group mechanic feels a bit of a bummer.

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If FFXI it's group-based, with the added requirement of timing and the correct selection of weapon skill for the skill chain required .. there's a reason many parties in FFXI never got off a useful skill chain!

Yes, Weapon Skills were useful spike damage but their main reason to exists was for skill chains.

Also, if this were added every fight in the game would have to be re-balanced due to the large increase in per-player DPS that would result.

Would like a personal limit break, but given how massive they already are... I mean, just imagine -4- Meteors going off at once. Pretty sure the game would die. Though I'd be happy if Black Mages had a 5 minute cooldown Meteor spell as well. Hardly ever get to LB3.

I just want to personally do something. I dislike that right now its more of "Better decide up front who LBs..."

I mean want party damage or boosts? FFXI did it, We comboed them for skillchains!

Sounds like XI's TP system. No thanks.

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Originally Posted by ChloeGrace

Sounds like XI's TP system. No thanks.

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Actually a personal limit break sounds more like FF7 and up which is kinda a staple at this point.

Personally, I like the group limit breaks. They're awesome looking, and have dramatic effects. If they were changed to solo limit breaks, they'd need to greatly diminish both the appearance (because, let's face it, 24-man raids would become downright unplayable with all the special effects getting in the way) and the effect of the ability.

Folks that want solo limit breaks, the option is open to you. Just get into PvP!

You didn't have to make a brand new thread about this since the idea has already been posted in this thread http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ality-of-Life.


When will people learn to use the search bar. This way we don't get the same treads made over and over again.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

If they were changed to solo limit breaks, they'd need to greatly diminish both the appearance

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No, I want to actually see my T3 LB animation that SE worked so hard on.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

No, I want to actually see my T3 LB animation that SE worked so hard on.

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Just use it in 24man, nobody really cares who uses the DPS LB there

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Just use it in 24man, nobody really cares who uses the DPS LB there

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Lol they very much do. I've seen more people raging over a misplaced LB than anything. And why should I be forced to take an embarrassing action at an improper time during an encounter just to make use of a tool SE has ostensibly provided?

I personally would like a personal LB, No one, NO ONE, knows how to use them right. Everyone always uses them way to early in the battle just because they wanna be the one to use it.
Giving a personal LB would do away with it, but there would have to be a a cool down between each LB so its not one after another.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Lol they very much do. I've seen more people raging over a misplaced LB than anything. And why should I be forced to take an embarrassing action at an improper time during an encounter just to make use of a tool SE has ostensibly provided?

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I didn't say anything about misplacing it. I said nobody cares who uses the LB (they won't care if you - the BRD - uses their LB over the DRG/NIN/MNK). People rage about misplaced LBs because healer LB may well be needed.

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

I didn't say anything about misplacing it. I said nobody cares who uses the LB (they won't care if you - the BRD - uses their LB over the DRG/NIN/MNK). People rage about misplaced LBs because healer LB may well be needed.

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I'm a healer. :p They'll definitely care if I use it just because I want to see the pretty lights. Which, again - poor design, when you invest so much time into building these gorgeous animations only to have just a select few actually available to players.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Personally, I like the group limit breaks. They're awesome looking, and have dramatic effects. If they were changed to solo limit breaks, they'd need to greatly diminish both the appearance (because, let's face it, 24-man raids would become downright unplayable with all the special effects getting in the way) and the effect of the ability.

Folks that want solo limit breaks, the option is open to you. Just get into PvP!

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The issue here with PvP is that the options for it are pretty bad compared to other games. I could go on an entire rant about the community and PvP as well but that's for another day.

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Originally Posted by White_Devil

The issue here with PvP is that the options for it are pretty bad compared to other games. I could go on an entire rant about the community and PvP as well but that's for another day.

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PVP in general is a toxic mode, people get way to into it at which point it stops being fun for everyone. All PVP does is provide a place for trolls and A-holes to gather.

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Originally Posted by Vorx

I personally would like a personal LB, No one, NO ONE, knows how to use them right. Everyone always uses them way to early in the battle just because they wanna be the one to use it.
Giving a personal LB would do away with it, but there would have to be a a cool down between each LB so its not one after another.

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Matter of opinion. for example.
yesterday I ran expert on blm got sohm al hard. on the last boss I always pop blm LB1 on the second hiss to smash the 4 adds the instant they spawned. even though the bar was maybe 80% full on lb2...

the result of that was a ton of praise for a "perfectly timed limit break" and I walked out with 3 commendations...

today I was a scholar queud with a friends blm but same dungeon sohm al hard..
last boss my friend pops lb1 on the second "hiss" exactly like I did the day before and the melee and the tank both flip a lid at why a mage wasted the limit break far to early when there's a melee in the party....

there are some people out there that can use them correctly assuming they haven't been wasted that is...

think healers tend to struggle a lot with there's 9/10 times I see a healer use there lb3 and raise everyone it's seconds before some big ass hit is just gonna instantly wipe them again.... most recently in a soph farm healer lb3d only for 1 of the tanks the other healer a dps and himself all fall off to a tilt right after......

I could understand if there were rules in place. Example: You cannot use limit breaks back to back. There has to be some kind of delay 30s for 4 man. 2 minutes for 8 man.
Those numbers can be changed of course, but the point is moderation.

It could even get to the point where you could equip different animation personal limit breaks with different effects.

@Dzian

NOT a matter of opinion. either your just trying to be a troll and shoot down people for whatever reason or you haven't been playing the game much. NO ONE knows the right time to use LBs. And yes people use them early so they can get to..