I wish I could experience the 1.23 combat

[Tupsi]

Well, in short let's put it this way:

1.23:
Combo System - Many positioning requirements and other factors met (i.e dodge/missed an attack/evade/under x effect etc)
ARR:
Combo System - Very very few positioning requirements that hardly matters outside of Monk.

1.23:
Battle System in General - The game was on an engine not suited for MMOs so it had some core problems, so if you wish to have experienced it, take what we got with ARR now and add depth and more involvement into it ontop of gear actually meaning something:



I'm also in the camp that 1.23's battle system was better and assumed ARR's would have been an extension of it, making it even better.

[Hikozaemon]

Well, in short let's put it this way:

1.23:
Combo System - Many positioning requirements and other factors met (i.e dodge/missed an attack/evade/under x effect etc)
ARR:
Combo System - Very very few positioning requirements that hardly matters outside of Monk.

1.23:
Battle System in General - The game was on an engine not suited for MMOs so it had some core problems, so if you wish to have experienced it, take what we got with ARR now and add depth and more involvement into it ontop of gear actually meaning something:



I'm also in the camp that 1.23's battle system was better and assumed ARR's would have been an extension of it, making it even better.

you obviously dont know how MNK works in ARR its nothing but constant position changes. u have be moving all around to maximize dmg

[Vensaval]

you obviously dont know how MNK works in ARR its nothing but constant position changes. u have be moving all around to maximize dmg

To be fair, Monks are the only class that require constant movement/position changes other than Dragoon, but to a far lesser extent.

[Alhanelem]

Well, in short let's put it this way:


1.23:
Combo System - Many positioning requirements and other factors met (i.e dodge/missed an attack/evade/under x effect etc)
ARR:
Combo System - Very very few positioning requirements that hardly matters outside of Monk.

1.23:
Battle System in General - The game was on an engine not suited for MMOs so it had some core problems, so if you wish to have experienced it, take what we got with ARR now and add depth and more involvement into it ontop of gear actually meaning something:



I'm also in the camp that 1.23's battle system was better and assumed ARR's would have been an extension of it, making it even better.

I'm not in this camp personally, for the most part ARR's combat is more fluid, snappy, faster. Some issues remain, but I think they went overboard with the positional/conditional requirements as it led to too large a number of skills simply being ignored because they could rarely be activated. The combo system was mostly retained; Battle Regimen was a good idea in theory (basically skillchains that could be executed automatically with the right timing and sequence) but was horribly implemented and ended up only being functional at all with extreme coordnation, ironically the issue with skillchains that BR was trying to lessen.

That being said, what I DO miss is gear with special effects (like what you pictured) ; a few event items do have special effects listed on them, so we know they're possible, but they're mostly absent from all gear (the only one that exists on a crafted item i know of is increased spiritbond gain). I would really like to see gear with unique and/or job specific bonuses to show up, it would really spice things up a bit.

[Alkimi]

ontop of gear actually meaning something:

Yoshi-P has mentioned that they will introduce gear at a later stage with more variety in stats. For launch they were very concerned about balance and wanted to keep it fairly simple.