Alpha Vid 5 - Actions

I read through most of the bashing and the anti bashing going on in the vid 5 thread and then looked for to see any discussion on the actual battle system shown in the video, and all i could find is people ranting about the questing, so i started this tread to post the actions i recorded from the vid.

(Posted in order that they appeared in the vid.)

Stone - Deals Earth damage with a potency of 80
Spell - Cast: 3s - Recast: 4s - MP Cost: 33
Range: 25y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 1 - Affinity: Requires CNJ THM

Aero - Deals Wind damage with a potency of 70
Spell - Addition Effect: Wind damage over time - Potency: 5 Duration: 18s
Cast: 2.5s - Recast: 4s - MP Cost: 30
Range: 25y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 4 - Affinity: Requires CNJ THM

Water - Deals Water damage with a potency of 30
Spell - Addition Effect: 15 yalm knock back
Cast: Instant - Recast: 4s - MP Cost: 60
Range: 5y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 15 - Affinity: Requires CNJ

Sprint - Use all TP to increase movement speed for the number of seconds equaling your TP total
divided by 50.
Note: 1000tp(the amount you start with) = 20 sec
Note: Its not said what the recast is in the tool tips but appears to be to my
estimation 30 sec or so?

Piercing Talon - Delivers an attack with a potency of 125
WeaponSkill - Cast: Instant - Recast: 3s - TP Cost: 200
Range: 18y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 15 - Affinity: Requires LNC

True Thrust - Delivers an attack with a potency of 150
WeaponSkill - Cast: Instant - Recast: 3s - TP Cost: 100
Range: 3y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 1 - Affinity: Requires LNC

Heavy Thrust - Delivers an attack with a potency of 100
WeaponSkill - Combo action: True Thrust - Combo Potency: 200
Combo Bonus: Heavy - Duration: 10s
Cast: Instant - Recast: 3s - TP Cost: 150
Range: 3y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 10 - Affinity: Requires LNC

Keen Flurry - Increases Parry Rate by 20% - Duration: 15s
WeaponSkill - Cast: Instant - Recast: 90s - TP Cost: 0
Range: 0y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 4 - Affinity: Requires GLA PGL MRD LNC ARC CNJ THM

Feint - Delivers an attack with a potency of 100
WeaponSkill - Addition Effect: Slow - Duration: 8s
Cast: Instant - Recast: 3s - TP Cost: 80
Range: 3y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 2 - Affinity: Requires GLA PGL MRD LNC ARC

Heavy Thrust - Delivers an attack with a potency of 100
WeaponSkill - Combo action: True Thrust - Combo Potency: 200
Cast: Instant - Recast: 3s - TP Cost: 120
Range: 3y - Radius: 0y
Acquired: LV. 6 - Affinity: Requires LNC

I'll laugh if all of this changes for beta lol

I was so giddy when I saw knockback actually chucking things a reasonable distance, always bothered me in 11 how all of my knockback spells (BLU) would shit the mobs a half inch, when theirs threw me halfway to the next zone.

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Originally Posted by KaiTBF

I was so giddy when I saw knockback actually chucking things a reasonable distance, always bothered me in 11 how all of my knockback spells (BLU) would shit the mobs a half inch, when theirs threw me halfway to the next zone.

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Shame Nael is gone, or we could dish out some payback for that damned annoying knockback attack of his.

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Originally Posted by KaiTBF

I was so giddy when I saw knockback actually chucking things a reasonable distance, always bothered me in 11 how all of my knockback spells (BLU) would shit the mobs a half inch, when theirs threw me halfway to the next zone.

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I was always terrible at judging how far a yalm was, but you say its a good distance? for pvp purposes i hope the Recast gets increased on this, 4 sec isnt very long. but i was excited to see it was instant cast.

Hmmm. I wonder if this means CNJ will be the second line of defense for when Hate goes bonkers on an enemy. They can bat an enemy back to the tank with that water spell. Just trying to think up good uses of that spell.

And (Unless dragoons always had this >_> I know 'jump' had ranged reach) looks like melee classes may have single WS with further reach. I guess these are best used against fleeing PVPers... (Or getting knockbacked by water XD).

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Originally Posted by LlenCoram

Shame Nael is gone, or we could dish out some payback for that damned annoying knockback attack of his.

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Idk about that, you'd kill all your mages if you knocked him too far away XD.

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Originally Posted by Ragento

I was always terrible at judging how far a yalm was, but you say its a good distance? for pvp purposes i hope the Recast gets increased on this, 4 sec isnt very long. but i was excited to see it was instant cast.

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15 yalms is enough for a mob to take around four or five seconds to get back to you. The cooldown is low enough that you could probably cast->water->cast->water but seeing as it's mp cost is double that of the other spells and it's damage is low you'll end up killing yourself with mana starvation if you spam too hard (plus you couldn't do combos that didn't involve water)

It's a nice defensive spell, (water, that is). And I'm sure there are some shenanigans that could be done with it. ;)

Imagine a party of CNJ who use water spells to herd mobs into a spot where they could all get AOE'd by BLMs or WARs...

And then there's the PVP implications.

I noticed that all the abilities share the same cooldown . . . discuss.

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Originally Posted by Sigmakan

I noticed that all the abilities share the same cooldown . . . discuss.

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spells have 4 s WS have 3s, Keen flurry has 90s

edit: you meant a global cooldown didnt you? lol

It's so you can't probably do something like a 'water' loop...
Water>Stone>Aero Forever till you run out of MP.

All of a sudden you got a CNJ tank...


Annnnd.... you can see what other's have already said about 'shared' cooldowns here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...uture-on-FFXIV.

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Originally Posted by Ragento

spells have 4 s WS have 3s, Keen flurry has 90s

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He's talking about the Global Cooldown.