Any plans for Skillchains?

[Alcide]

Thanks for all the information Alcide. I don't know that I would have ever caught all these rules and nuances by just trying out BR's in the game.

What I liked about the skill chain system was that I could choose to set up a chain myself by just watching what my other party members were doing and executing the right skill based on their actions. Sometimes I could even anticipate their moves and launch an opening weapon skill at just the right time which I knew they would chain with. With skill chains, a skilled player can still use them to benefit the party without requiring everyone to be on top of their game.

Pick up parties are rarely coordinated enough to use the current BR system, and if I try I end up standing around for so long that any damage bonus I received would be far less than what I could have done without being locked into BR mode. Sometimes I nearly die even as I'm unable to act while other people are joining in.

IMHO the biggest mistake they did with BR is that they didn't explain clearely how it works, otherwise i find it much more casual friendly than SC.
Let's face it, when we started using SC we didn't know what to do, personally i found that really confusing and really hard to perform. Doing a correct SC in Dunes was hard as hell. Where's the difference? That back in XI we always had in party someone experienced that told us what to do, even when we were noobs. There were always someone with a macro anticipating the SC in the chat log before doing the WS, so we knew what we had to do and we learned how it works.

In FFXIV we are all still pretty noob so except a few people that enjoy testing things with linkshell mates, most of the players don't know how everything works. With pick up groups usually i was the only one knowing how BR works, so if I saw it was taking too much time to queue the skills and that they were all messed up i just explained everyone what they had to do and then everything went fine.

Imagine if everyone has a macro for BR saying something like "Regimen of Ruing starting in 5 sec - queue normal attacks" or "TP ready - Battle Regimen starting in 5 sec - queu WS" when they stack the first skill, like we did back in FFXI, wouldn't it be much easier than the SC system?
It won't be as powerful as a BR in a well trained party, but that's what I love about BR system: we the right knowledg it can be easy and useful in pick up groups and hard and devastating in static parties, it's relly versatile.

Still it needs some fixes, i'm ok with the core system, but the debuffs we have are pretty boring :/ I'd love to see more combinations, like combo attacks or elemental attacks.