The Letter is up

[Renshi]

Ah, I see what you are saying. Yours and my definition of eye candy greatly differ.

Believe me, it's better like this, so we have different opinions that people can discuss about =)

Anyway, I like it because sometimes I don't notice the timer on the skill and keep pressing it even though I think it's available, so with that clock thing I'll be eased for that work. Moreover, since the skills goes flashy when it's available, it'll be easier for me to notice which skill has become available. Sometimes I wait for a skill to be available, but I forget about it and keep attacking. The flashy thing will tell me "Ah right, the skill!" and I go use it =)

[Gramul]

That's not all he's been doing with the battle system.
Fixing and improving animations, working on a job system, restructuring how battle actually plays, how stat's are calculated, giving us areas in which to practice and use said job system, and other crap like that.

They couldn't move on to the new content before first making the system suit the players desires, and yes, auto attack has been wanted by many players.

[Pulseczar]

^^Let's hope they reveal this info over the next two weeks. Sadly, based on their track record, I don't see this happening.

[Sephr]

If they managed to sort the battle system and groundwork out this summer with server stability improvements and latency reduction, and then started pumping out all that old content (the player-run companies still sound pretty great) in the autumn, I'd be pretty damn happy with this game.

[Seif]

Does that video have any new animations in it? I have to say that just the fact that I can't even tell if it does says something about their quality. *watches a video of Tera's animation and bursts into tears*

[zaviermhigo]

It has completely new weapon skills. I mean anyone who actually plays those classes or plays with those classes was like "OH CRAP THAT TOTALLY EFFING NEW!!!"

[Xeno]

Well I'm hoping that we'll have more than that in 1.18 but I doubt it. I'll be back in early July to check, yay waiting!

[Meridian]

It has completely new weapon skills. I mean anyone who actually plays those classes or plays with those classes was like "OH CRAP THAT TOTALLY EFFING NEW!!!"

Yup, and they also look brilliant compared to most other TP moves at the moment... So I have no idea what people are complaining about! The Gladiator and Lancer multi-hit skills looked sweet.

[Sephr]

Does that video have any new animations in it? I have to say that just the fact that I can't even tell if it does says something about their quality. *watches a video of Tera's animation and bursts into tears*

Do you mean character animations, or the particle effects of abilities? I assume you mean the former, in which case I don't recall any polearm abilities using those kinds of moves before, but I could be wrong.

TERA isn't a game you should benchmark against really, it's so different and anime-y compared with FFXIV's more down-to-earth style. We're not going to be backflipping around any time soon, aside from the odd WS.

[Pulseczar]

The Lancer one did look sweet. It's the only one I have noticed so far. It just happens so quickly it's hard to see the details.