Battle system changes

[Zigabar]

Not used to seeing Live Letters on a Monday.

Makes sense, since the servers will be down. Keeps the hype train going. Wrong Monday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The battle system change will not effect the way we fight enemies now? For example, they are still keeping "stay out of the red zone" mechanic when fighting bosses and mobs? ?

No one here really knows, we can only make educated guesses. Wait for the 22nd.

[Laerune]

Makes sense, since the servers will be down. Keeps the hype train going.

I thought the servers are going to be down the 15/16th of May?

[Zigabar]

I thought the servers are going to be down the 15/16th of May?

Realized it after I posted. Bad work internet load times are bad. I edited it.

[Malzian]

The battle system change will not effect the way we fight enemies now? For example, they are still keeping "stay out of the red zone" mechanic when fighting bosses and mobs? ?

No one here really knows, we can only make educated guesses. Wait for the 22nd.

They will not be taking out mob AoEs and markers. This is a staple part of combat and would require them to rework every mob in the game, including overworld trash mobs. The likely changes you will see are:
1) Streamlining of action combos
2) Rework of cross job skills (we already know know this is becoming role skills, just not the fine details)
3) Removal/reworking of underutilized skills (once more we know this is happening, just not the details)
4) Changes in damage calculations based on stats, potency and weapon damage, likely minor tweaks
5) Refinement of action animations including animation locks

Beyond those, I wouldn't expect much else.

[Xenosan]

4) Changes in damage calculations based on stats, potency and weapon damage, likely minor tweaks

Wouldn't read too much into this one. They had to 'adjust damage calculations, etc' in HW expansion too.

Amounted to little more than tuning the scaling curves of stats to accommodate the new max lvl & ilvl. They have to tweak the pipe-work to keep the stats to yielding what they currently do.

Will have to do that again no doubt.

[Malzian]

Wouldn't read too much into this one. They had to 'adjust damage calculations, etc' in HW expansion too.

Amounted to little more than tuning the scaling curves of stats to accommodate the new max lvl & ilvl. They have to tweak the pipe-work to keep the stats to yielding what they currently do.

Will have to do that again no doubt.

Well, I did qualify that with "minor tweaks". You might see a slide of a couple DPS up or down, but I doubt it would be ultimately noticeable without hard data crunching. Still, it qualifies as a battle system adjustment so I included it anyway.

[Shurrikhan]

Wouldn't read too much into this one. They had to 'adjust damage calculations, etc' in HW expansion too.

Amounted to little more than tuning the scaling curves of stats to accommodate the new max lvl & ilvl. They have to tweak the pipe-work to keep the stats to yielding what they currently do.

Will have to do that again no doubt.

^ This seemed mostly to be de-tunings for the stats over the increased level cap to ensure that haste, etc., didn't start the new expansion high already (or therefore end the expansion at ridiculous levels). Heck, the changes to how Crit works that came with HW can also be seen as a slight Monk/DRG buff and a noticeable Bard nerf.