Battle Reform: Auto-Attack (06/30/2011)

[NoctisUmbra]

Too damn right it will. Would you rather everyone just quit so you can be the only one playing? Crying/whining is what forced SE to redevelop the game. Surprised you're still playing if you were happy with the game in September. Oh wait, no, you were probably crying/whining yourself. Hypocrite.

At the end of the day when SE make one of your classes unplayable or so big a pain in the ass to play that you don't want to play it any more we have every right to complain. I'll be whining even harder if they give WHM job to one of the mage classes without giving it another job. I only have three battle classes at 50 and SE are potentially making two of them unplayable for me.

There's absolutely no reason why ARC should not have auto attack with its main weapon. SE could have added a toggle for all classes so if you want to sit and spam 1 and fight with the recast timer display issue you can turn it off. But no, they try a one fits all approach and piss off half the player base. The ones whining about the whiners or who think it's a good idea either don't play ARC or their prayers from constant whines about ARC being over-powered have been answered. Making a class a pain in the ass to play isn't a fix.




I've been playing long enough to know how tapping the 1 key works and how recast timers work. You don't need to experience it to know how light shot with a recast is going to work.

There is one fundamental flaw with your argument. Sensible, reasonable, rational people do not pass judgement on something without trying it out personally first.

Yes, people did cry and whine and shoot tons of criticism on the state of the game, and have been doing so since it's release - but the ones that get heard are the ones that comment on the current state and provide suggestions for improvement.

What you are doing cannot be described by anything other than crying out of fear. You know only a small fraction of what the patch will bring, the basic skeletal structure of it. The actual meat of the patch, what will make or break it, lies in the quantitative information: the actual numbers. You have no clue whether the recast timer will be a matter of 1-2 seconds, which will allow you to actually fire off Light Shots at a quicker rate than before. You do not know if Close Shot and/or Shadowbind will have their Bind effect changed so that receiving damage does not break it's effect on the mob, therefore allowing you to stay at range. These things may very well not be the case, but the fact of the matter is none of us know. You cannot criticize something you do not know. Therefore nothing of what you are doing is constructive in any way, shape or form.

Does anyone not see the advantages of recast timers over a stamina system. Am I the only one happy that I will be able to always fire off a Light Shot right after I use Trifurcate, instead of waiting for a bar to fill? Am I the only one happy that I will be able to use Chameleon, or Decoy, or Scouring Strike right away, even though I have been spamming Light Shots at maximum output speed?

I do not mean any of this as a personal attack Xenor, but simply to point out that we barely know anything about what we will actually get with 1.18. I would rather spend that time speaking of many possibilities, and perhaps suggesting ideas of mine that compliment the direction of the game and influence major, popular decisions rather than assume the worst is the case and attempt to criticize/vent about something that is no more that hypothetical at this point in time.

Sounds interesting, but I'll have to actually try it out first before I can really analyze anything. There's still a lot of stuff we don't know.

This right here is the appropriate response if you have nothing hopeful or exciting to say. Thanks Renta for the example response.