Final Fantasy XIV Auto-Attack Video

[ZephyrAM]

Yep. Because every MMO with auto-attack causes people to be bored out of their minds and fall asleep. It's not a testament to how much of a role auto-attack plays into combat. It's just the fact it's there. /endsarcasm

That's because in most MMO's Auto attack is just an afterthought. Sure, it's there. Is it even a consideration? Nope. Doesn't generally do damage worth paying attention to and serves no other purpose, combat is all about using your abilities.

As of now, that's not what AA looks to do in XIV. It controls our TP gauge, and thus our level of downtime. If we have a consistent stream of TP that we don't have to worry about running out of, then sure, it'll be fine... but they why have TP at all?

Never base combat around something you, the player, aren't even actively a part of.

Now, if it does turn out that we can just hit skills throughout battle, then I won't complain, AA will just sit in the background, which is fine. It'll work just like City of Heroes combat does. I just don't see that being the case at this point.

[RexSkyborn]

Auto attack is stupidly slow, the current battle system seems like it would be much more fun.. /welcome back all the people who afk while partying.

I at least hope they have a way to disable auto attack, because as an archer sometimes you don't want to keep shooting arrows if you're watching your hate

[Dyne]

I love this, now the actions are instant, instead of waiting for 5-10 seconds for provoke to activate, or getting stuck on invigorate. With auto attack, people can focus on other actions rather than focusing on pressing attack. That last part with the pug stun move then moving behind to sneak attack reminded me of thief, totally not possible with the stamina bar. That's how we used to kill NMs as thief, sleep bolt then move behind, sneak attack+weapon skill.

[Dyne]

Auto attack is stupidly slow, the current battle system seems like it would be much more fun.. /welcome back all the people who afk while partying.

I at least hope they have a way to disable auto attack, because as an archer sometimes you don't want to keep shooting arrows if you're watching your hate

Pretty sure Archer won't have auto attack unless they gave archer secondary weapons like daggers. As for it being slow, that's what haste skills from lancer and maybe haste spell and gear later on are for.

[Kam]

Not going to read through 13 pages for meh simple observation...



Did anyone notice the black description box was gone?

Screen looks alot clearer with out it

Edit: Bahh someone already mentioned!

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

Pretty sure Archer won't have auto attack unless they gave archer secondary weapons like daggers. As for it being slow, that's what haste skills from lancer and maybe haste spell and gear later on are for.

Pretty sure EVERYONE is going to have Auto Attack, otherwise what's the point? It will still use the same amount of arrows, regardless.

[Stupifyed]

Auto attack is stupidly slow, the current battle system seems like it would be much more fun.. /welcome back all the people who afk while partying.

I at least hope they have a way to disable auto attack, because as an archer sometimes you don't want to keep shooting arrows if you're watching your hate

I don't think Arch will change at all, probably why they were left out of that video like the DoM are.

However if they do get a auto attack i think it will be like ffxi with basic dagger or axe attacks.

[kukurumei]

I don't think Arch will change at all, probably why they were left out of that video like the DoM are.

However if they do get a auto attack i think it will be like ffxi with basic dagger or axe attacks.

Well since they are playing with TP instead of stamina, it should be a bit more balance. Can't revolve around the TKO full stamina combos.

archers like all other DoW need first build the TP requirements, so they need to go a round or 5 in fisticuffs first.

[Zephir]

personally i love AA..One of best win of FFXI is that you can chat during a fight without stop fighting or other.

A sort of social feature^^

Someone said that AA is boring....

It's a true shot..but personally I think that continuosly hit a key is more boring...

And sometimes is a sort of issue when you write a word in chat and you can't immediantly hit 1 for atk becouse cursor was in text space XD

[Shikyo]

shows off auto attack very well.
I did predict that there would be another delay pass the mid june schedual though. also said there would be no talk at all of classes being added in 1.18.

I hope archer has dagger/axe as basic attack in melee range instead of making them just auto shoot arrows... XI had ranger down pact perfect the way it was played.