Combat still too slow. We need a shorter Global Cooldown!

[Alukah]

Necromancer job confirmed, please look forward to it.

[Sygmaelle]

Disagree, learn to weave in your abilities not tied to the GCD at the right times and you'll find you'll mostly always have something to be pressing. I actually like how it is a lot, feels more Final Fantasy.

Edit: As a side note, when's the last time you played an MMO with such detailed and fleshed out combat animations? I like being able to watch them instead of staring at my hotbar.

Age of Conan.

[Empressia]

You have some serious ADD issues... You couldn't possibly have handled XI, you had to wait for 100tp to be granted before you could use an ability. This isn't tekken where you're mashing buttons, it's supposed to be methodical and paced. What's the rush to jam more buttons?

OP didn't play enough BLM/BRD buttonmash faceroll playstyle

[Sessurea]

And this from a drg, who even have a non gcd to boost another non gcd.

[Tiggy]

OP doesn't appear to have been to Coil 1 or 2. Has no idea what he's talking about since he has only done simple content.

[Jaykos]

Actually, if you had ever played WoW you'd know that the combat is more or less the same thing as what we have here. Only the rotations are more complex and you have less time to react.

Slowing down the combat doesn't add strategy, it just makes the game easier.

100% correct. Wow pretty much uses the same hotkey battle system but with a 1.5 gcd. The rotations are also similar or more complex than what we have here and with more utility/cc/situational abilities. 2.5 sec gcd just makes the game easier and also possible for console users.

BTW in not advocating a change of gcd but implying that a longer gcd makes combat deeper and more strategic is flat out wrong.

[Cynfael]

While I have enjoyed the fast pace of MMOs with minimal or no GCD, I think that the current system fits the game well. Removing GCDs does often benefit players with good twitch reactions, but as often as not it just leads to players mashing the same buttons even harder and faster than they do already.

[Quesse]

My problems with the GCD aren't with the GCD itself....

I don't notice it playing melee classes or BRD--casters are where I feel the GCD most, and I think that was because of poor skill design. Really, just poor choices of what's on/off-GCD.

I would love to see GCD removed and each skill get its own cool down. It would make combat more tactical and less button combo rotation mashing.

GCD is really a blight on the MMO-scene. Its a crutch to rely on when you don't want to put in the effort to make a truly awesome combat system.

[TheRogueX]

Disagree, learn to weave in your abilities not tied to the GCD at the right times and you'll find you'll mostly always have something to be pressing.

Unless you're a PLD. Pretty much all of our non-GCD abilities are reactionary. I wish there were more non-GCD abilities that could be used proactively across all classes, but overall I don't mind the combat system.

GCD is really a blight on the MMO-scene.

This is true. I can't remember any MMO that had so many abilities on a global cool down. Or if there was a GCD, it was short and very specific.

[Sparktacus]

OP doesn't appear to have been to Coil 1 or 2. Has no idea what he's talking about since he has only done simple content.

Well OP posted over a year ago and probably quit due to GCD being "too slow" for their tastes.