The new 1.18 Battle System enhancements thread!

[Tyro]

Guys seriously, stop complainting... you asked for Auto-Attack, there you have it. It is fair that most secondary attacks have big timers, otherwise I could nerly spam Heavy Thrust, Pierce, Full Thrust, PLUS the automatic Light Thrust. The patch is meant for us to think, play with skill and not wasting our moves. Yesterday when I started playing my LNC I really felt like playing an FF series game... before I felt like idk... playing WoW or something.

They are trying to balance game, and for that, nerfing is needed. THM lost massive healing, well, don't you remember RDM NOT having Curaga on FFXI, you needed to level WHM to get that one, to make up with that RDM got refresh, phalanx, fast cast, awesome debuffing, etc... I'm sure something good is coming for THM, just wait.

[TengoMike]

First of all there is a difference between complaining and critiquing, secondly we all didn't ask for auto attack.

[BlaiseLallaise]

there is a difference between complaining and critiquing

For some reason I feel the need to reiterate this point. I can't fathom how anyone could interpret this conversation as a complaint thread.

There is a huge difference between:

1. After experiencing the changes, I feel the system could better benefit from altering certain aspects.

and:

2. OMFG Why didn't they do it like I think they should?!?!?!!!!

[Lerris]

I don't think they took into account that the removal of and/or addition of 30 second recast times on normal attacks would severely hinder the use of over half of Battle Regimens. Its quite a problem.

They have mentioned that Battle Regimen changes would be coming, but not immediately.

[Eisah]

Guys seriously, stop complainting... you asked for Auto-Attack, there you have it.

I didn't.

I don't think moves like Full Thrust and Heavy Thrust need such a long timer. It felt weird that something like Skewer can be re-used in what, 10 seconds? But I couldn't use either of the basic moves.
I already used my moves before the patch a lot; I'd go through them depending on what would help the most. I wouldn't mind a little slowing down because it was very fast, but 1:00 is a pretty big delay time and doesn't seem to make sense compared to other moves.

Before the patch I was actually wondering how auto-attack would even work because I didn't use the same move twice in a row too often.

(Now having played a bit more I can work it, but I think there may be some un-intended problems. I was having trouble knocking horns off goats because my guy keeps auto-attacking them to death. I may have to turn my back to them or something.)

[Raim]

You, like many others complaining about the long skill cooldown timers are forgetting a key feature of FFXIV which it pains me to have to remind you.

Did you forget you have Marauder, Gladiator, and Puglist skills at your disposal as well? Are you trying to play FFXIV by spamming 2-3 keys? If you aren't using at least 1-2 full bars of active skills, you aren't doing it correctly.