Suggestion: Please Make Holmang, HG, and Bene actions truly instant

[Soulburn32]

You guys are using these skills wrong.

Hallowed isn't meant to be used as: omg im gonna die right now save me.
Hallowed should be used as: I'm going to use this to mitigate the next couple of attacks to either: prevent me from an attack that could kill me, or prevent the healers from having to heal spam to keep me alive.

The same is meant for benediction, you should not be using this as: my tank has 100hp left i need to save him. It is meant to more like: I can't catch up in heals in time to prevent death, or I don't have time to heal someone properly but i need a big heal now.

Holmgang is basically hallowed but more in the: I know i'm going to die to this next attack if I don't use it.


Just my personal opinion on it.

[Doo]

The same is meant for benediction, you should not be using this as: my tank has 100hp left i need to save him.

This is exactly how benediction should be used. Your tank is about to die for whatever reason (I.E not dodging slipstream), benediction.

[Soulburn32]

This is exactly how benediction should be used. Your tank is about to die for whatever reason (I.E not dodging slipstream), benediction.

You only have the tank and yourself working as a team to blame for those moments happening.

Heres your sign

[Doo]

You only have the tank and yourself working as a team to blame for those moments happening.

Cowpie happens, hence what the skill is for. Can't play a perfect game all the time.

You can't play for a no whipe situation game all the time either which is what your asking for.

An ability with like a 10 minute cool down is hardly "no whipe situation"

[Soulburn32]

Cowpie happens, hence what the skill is for. Can't play a perfect game all the time.

You can't play for a no whipe situation game all the time either which is what your asking for.

If you know the fight then you know when high damage situations can occur and your reaction time should be plenty to get off a benediction. You guys are acting like it takes 3 seconds to get off a benediction its more like 1 if that.

[necrosis]

You guys are using these skills wrong.

Hallowed isn't meant to be used as: omg im gonna die right now save me.
Hallowed should be used as: I'm going to use this to mitigate the next couple of attacks to either: prevent me from an attack that could kill me, or prevent the healers from having to heal spam to keep me alive.

The same is meant for benediction, you should not be using this as: my tank has 100hp left i need to save him. It is meant to more like: I can't catch up in heals in time to prevent death, or I don't have time to heal someone properly but i need a big heal now.

Holmgang is basically hallowed but more in the: I know i'm going to die to this next attack if I don't use it.


Just my personal opinion on it.

Ahh. The 'your doing it wrong' response. That did not take long.

[mythicrose]

Ahh. The 'your doing it wrong' response. That did not take long.

You're doing it wrong.

[Nadrojj]

You guys are using these skills wrong.

Hallowed isn't meant to be used as: omg im gonna die right now save me.
Hallowed should be used as: I'm going to use this to mitigate the next couple of attacks to either: prevent me from an attack that could kill me, or prevent the healers from having to heal spam to keep me alive.

The same is meant for benediction, you should not be using this as: my tank has 100hp left i need to save him. It is meant to more like: I can't catch up in heals in time to prevent death, or I don't have time to heal someone properly but i need a big heal now.

Holmgang is basically hallowed but more in the: I know i'm going to die to this next attack if I don't use it.


Just my personal opinion on it.

Your opinion is bad. HG should be instant so when I know the next attack is going to take me down and I hit HG it doesn't hit me, instead of laying on the ground saying man I was hitting HG but nothing is happened. Tank T5 and tell me you can actively plan for twintania's belly flop damage. Kthxbye.

[Soulburn32]

Your opinion is bad. HG should be instant so when I know the next attack is going to take me down and I hit HG it doesn't hit me, instead of laying on the ground saying man I was hitting HG but nothing is happened. Tank T5 and tell me you can actively plan for twintania's belly flop damage. Kthxbye.

Your reaction time or knowledge of the fight is bad.

Again these are my personal opinions. You all are free to express your own as you are doing.

[Parodine]

Honestly, FFXIV doesn't feel like a game designed around split-second decisions, so I personally don't see the need to change these abilities.

The main effect of all of these abilities is "long" lasting, so in my opinion they are pre-emptive abilities, not reactive abilities, and should be used as such. You're basically asking to make game-changing abilities (well, Holmgang is iffy imo) to be even more powerful. If you want these abilities to be instant their effects need to be greatly toned down.

I can sort of see the point you're making, but I'm not even talking about a split second decision. I'm talking about pressing the button and waiting 2 seconds and not even getting an effect from the ability.

There are abilities like the stun ones you brought up as well as silencing techniques like Blunt arrow that are fast. Why? Because stunning or silencing a move sometimes is a split second desire.

The abilities can still be used to mitigate damage or 'catch up on heals', but don't we want more dynamic uses for these abilities, like in emergency situations? They have such a strong potential to be useful for such, but they're being wasted instead.

Your reaction time or knowledge of the fight is bad.

Again these are my personal opinions. You all are free to express your own as you are doing.

With all due respect, sometimes you can't plan that far ahead or have to ride by the seat of your pants sometimes either due to mob actions or other player actions. I agree with being prepared, but using these 6-7 minute abilities (at least HG and Bene) for emergency situations is not unreasonable. These abilities are not over-powered all-wipe preventing...they have HUGE timers to the point that you can only use them once per fight often. And so people would rather save them for the time when they're needed most: an emergency. As the saying goes, shit happens.