Should we consider combat QOL improvements/changes ?

[DragonSlayer45]

Admittedly, I find it funny how we even have elemental resistances if they do jack all. Why are they even taking up space in the character screen?

I don't see changes to how the elemental wheel (or lack of) works in this game because it would require a complete overhaul of Black Mage and most likely the other Disciples of Magic jobs. They would also have to redesign fights both old and new to take on such a change. As Winter said, its a lot of work for a system a lot of people might not even like and I too am not shutting down the idea, but just looking at it from a realistic standpoint.

Maybe in the far future if they ever decide to do a big redesign of the game like they did with 2.0, but not in 4.0 or any time soon.

[Yellow]

Admittedly, I find it funny how we even have elemental resistances if they do jack all. Why are they even taking up space in the character screen?

I don't see changes to how the elemental wheel (or lack of) works in this game because it would require a complete overhaul of Black Mage and most likely the other Disciples of Magic jobs. They would also have to redesign fights both old and new to take on such a change. As Winter said, its a lot of work for a system a lot of people might not even like and I too am not shutting down the idea, but just looking at it from a realistic standpoint.

Maybe in the far future if they ever decide to do a big redesign of the game like they did with 2.0, but not in 4.0 or any time soon.

For sure, I wouldn't expect anything like this to happen soon. But something like this might have the opportunity to be considered in the future when we get to the point where we can't add more layers to what we already have. I really just wanted my suggestions to be something to start this conversation, rather than be the core of the discussion.

[Xanikk999]

The global cooldown could be shortened to one second or a second and a half instead of the excruciatinly long 2.5 seconds. I play both WoW and this game and the drawback to this game is combat is so much slower and less fluid than WoW because the of the extremely long global cooldown.

They could easily adjust cast time on spells for casters to balance around having a shorter GCD.

[NoahArks]

I would love to see the elemental resistances ingame. The elemental resistances don't really appear to do anything atm. They would have to redesign black mage in a way, considering only uses fire/ice spells and mostly fire...

They could introduce stances that make use of the main element and the opposing like it does currently, but you'll have Fire/Ice, Ice/fire, Earth/Wind, Wind/Earth, Water/Thunder, Thunder/Water. Or introduce a new way to replendish MP with CD's or Skills like the Dark Knight uses to replendish HP/MP. It could work like soul eater. It would only be able to cast it after the second level spell and it would replendish 50%+ of the damage done to mp.