ARR often feels very contradictory in its design (long)

[PSxpert2011]

When players complain about the fact that FFXI combat system is slow compared to FFXIV, they often forget it's a turn-based battle system that's still active and with a cool-down mechanic everyone has to deal with.

Mobs followed you to the ends of the zone or until you were dead. TP build up even when your are hit/ take damage oppose to ARR where you spamming TP moves until it hits 0/3000. XIV:ARR takes patience away but replaces it with action-management.

The pros is your busier and enjoying cool moves but your forced to meet expectations due to that speed. Kill the boss fast & furious oppose to out-lasting him no matter how long your in the fight. items requirements never existed per-say but now it stinks of pure prejudice.

[Zanfire]

1.23's combat felt like it had some depth and strat to it. was it exciting to show to friends? not really, but most MMOs/RPGs arent. I dont play countless RPGs for its fast and frantic/flashy combat, i do it for a great story, loot, and strategy...turn based or not. If anything i noticed RPGs with action combat have to strip out much of the depth because it just wont work, yet slower turn based RPGs sell perfectly well last time i checked. Action RPGs lately have been more of a fad, everyones trying it because it looks "cool" and people are putting RPG factors into everything.

[Jadmus]

Legit concerns. I agree with everything.

However... 4 months in. Let's keep hope alive.

[Grizzlebeard]

It's called balance for PVE and PVP. If all classes had access to all abilities it wouldn't be possible to keep things balanced between all of the roles. It's only a bottleneck if you limit yourself to 30% of the game. It is your choice but your "bottleneck" isn't an issue for many people who play.

Were you responding to someone else's post because you quoted mine and, well, in the context of my post your reply seems completely unrelated.

[Zanfire]

Wow they didnt lock this one, but 2 others that question the games design and choices are locked because...why not, they dont like the negative talk and refuse to respond of course.

[Zeno_McDohl]

Give them time, hopefully they'll reply. This would probably go to Yoshi-P, so it would take longer to get a translated reply there.

[OldGeezer]

Were you responding to someone else's post because you quoted mine and, well, in the context of my post your reply seems completely unrelated.

You made two points. I commented on both of them.