Combat still too slow. We need a shorter Global Cooldown!

[M4Fade]

I wanna go fast!



There are no plans to adjust the rate of the GCD, but there are ways to speed up your skill and spell speeds through the use of food, different gear, and materia as well.

I think we all figured as much. That's totally fine, but are there plans to make it so abilities that are off the GCD actually trigger while you're doing another ability? Right now you need to wait for the full animation to go off before using these "off the GCD" abilities. It feels like these spells/abilities are still on the 2.5 second GCD. It feels clunky.

[iPlayBad]

What's the point of a GCD anyway?

I agree with the OP either shorten it or remove it.

[Coldbrand]

Dropping it to at least 2 would be nice. As well as the addition of a Hell of a lot more skills and a richer combo system.

[Tanabe]

having GCD is a good thing, on some skills yes, but some skills should be looked at Again and see if they should be removed from GCD list, to make combat even more smooth/fast, for GLD shield smash(skill that need a block befor it can be used) when you use that skill it dont cock up your combo list but it will eat up a GCD instead, if a skill like that can be removed from GCD playing GLD will be so much better, and i am sure other classes have 1-2 skills that could be removed from GCD.

[Aoshi1]

Combat is way too fine as it is. Let's leave well enough alone, shall we? Bigger fish to fry, as they say ^___^

[Klefth]

No, we do not need faster combat. What we need is combat with at least a little bit of depth. And less cheap battles to go with it.

[Swishytail]

What's the point of a GCD anyway?

I agree with the OP either shorten it or remove it.

Well, I can say as a DPS that would be a nightmare. I already run out of TP as it is on Monk due to my GCD being lowered to 2 seconds by Greased Lightning III + skill speed stacking. Completely removing GCD would be horrendous lol.

[Rochetm]

Too slow? People are complaining just for the sake of complaining now? The Combat is fine. The 1.0 was slow, but 2.0 speed it up a lot. The way I see it is now the other way around. It was so fast that they take out the Skill Chain because skill now execute a lot faster.

You need to play your Class better and have the right skill Rotation. Rift, WoW is slower, go back there and play it if you don't believe me. Wow just seam faster because class have a gazillion skills to spam. Any faster we will turn Final Fantasy game into active combat, I for once agree with the producer saying this game is not to be real action combat and it doesn't work well with Final Fantasy.

I like it the way it is, so yeah don't speak for us.

You never played WoW or you are really bad... possibly both.

[nimrod]

For me combat feels sooooo slow

Cant speak for other jobs, but would love to be on 2.0GCD on my Paladin...

[frostfairy]

a good example of why the GCD needs to be changed on SOME spells

boss does a aoe that puts a dot on everyone(that dot will do some 1000+ damage at my level over 30s), your dispel debuff is a 1s cast 2.5s gcd....so nothing for 1.5s and another 2.5s to cast a heal so 5s of no heals going round....seen my tank go for from full to 10% in that time.

SOME abilities need to be adjusted, overall I DO like the 2.5s. and indeed I do get a 20% hp heal at 50 for Etherflow charges that IS off the GCD. But some abilities need to be adjusted across ALL classes/jobs depending on what they do.