Battle Regiment? The return of Skillchains?

Hi all. I looked up a pretty old video of 1.0 and remember there being a skillchain system called "Battle Regiment."

Similar to FFXI's system to chain skills together to preform bonus damage and debuffing the enemy.

I know ARR is a much faster game. But what about a unique abilities that comes in a later expansion or content to utilise such a system in XIV? I think that would be a really neat idea to add for future content.

https://youtu.be/llfFDu10rds XIV Battle Regiments

Limit Break replace Battle Regiment

It was nice and useful but only by playing with some friends or with some certain people who cared about it.

Honnestly, most of random people we meet in PF nowadays don't care about playing with others and about the teamwork. Everyone does his things in his corner until the end and leave.

Skillchains ask communication, teamwork, two things we don't have 70% of the time.

While neat in theory, watching that video makes me appreciate the simplicity of limit breaks. All that needlessly setup would make things feel incredibly cumbersome imo.

But what would you think of new introduced abilities that adapt to ARR's playstyle? Let's say a dragon popped a combo skill, then a notification would prompt for a skill chain possibility. Then another player would activate their chain skill ability and then BOOM. Skill chain that debuffs and damages the enemy.

That would be neat.

People did this in BNS with no issue. It could definitely work.

The downside is that they'd make the window so stupid long it'd be trivial anyway. If they didn't it'd never work because the server tick rate.

Lose lose :(

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Originally Posted by KaldeaSahaline

People did this in BNS with no issue. It could definitely work.

The downside is that they'd make the window so stupid long it'd be trivial anyway. If they didn't it'd never work because the server tick rate.

Lose lose :(

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I'm thinking of the ability be entirely new and off global cooldown. While a nice damage boost alone to dps, if comboed, would be even better!

Can we bring back the Fatigue system too? ;)

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Originally Posted by MageBlack

Can we bring back the Fatigue system too? ;)

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I much prefer our butts if we are making a 1.0 wishlist.

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Originally Posted by KaldeaSahaline

People did this in BNS with no issue. It could definitely work.

The downside is that they'd make the window so stupid long it'd be trivial anyway. If they didn't it'd never work because the server tick rate.

Lose lose :(

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Non-decrepit poll rate when?

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Originally Posted by MageBlack

Can we bring back the Fatigue system too? ;)

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Calm down Satan

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Originally Posted by Destati

Calm down Satan

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The Fatigue system is simply the coin-inverse of Rested experience; you get bonus experience rates on each and every job until you consume it from each, rather than shared over all jobs, encouraging you to level all jobs instead of just one.

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

The Fatigue system is simply the coin-inverse of Rested experience; you get bonus experience rates on each and every job until you consume it from each, rather than shared over all jobs, encouraging you to level all jobs instead of just one.

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Except that [exp + rested exp] don't start at 0%, while [exp - fatigue] can end at 0%

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Originally Posted by Felis

Except that [exp + rested exp] don't start at 0%, while [exp - fatigue] can end at 0%

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That simply depends on the modifier and the base rate.

With rested Exp, the base rate is reduced somewhat as to allow for the targeted real and in-game hours' leveling time.

With Fatigue, it's full, but it trails off with experience gained, perhaps eventually descending below the rested exp rate until, generally, the two average out when playing a given job at the amount the developers wish to encourage or it creates a new optimal path.

With rested exp, it's optimal to spend all rested, as it is based in levels, not flat Exp, on your highest level job. One should main.

With fatigue, the opposite is true. One cannot level a single job as quickly, but can level multiple more quickly.

So, which feels more Final Fantasy?