Something that concerns me...

[Urthdigger]

I doubt we'll see faster paced combat. That will essentially be a major adjustment to balance across the board. On top of that, the devs know things like Ninja exist, and anyone who's suggested the game be faster has clearly never touched the job.

[Rufalus]

Try to make the thread titles include a description of the content of the thread. This could have been 'Faster paced combat'

[Elamys]

Even if all they did was shorten the GCD they would have to completely restructure the rest of the game's combat so it's completely unlikely.

[Liam_Harper]

Shortening the GCD probably wouldn't work either.

It's not that WoW is super fast, it's just far smoother. Abilities flow without that short server lag. Even if you macro 4 off-gcd's together, they all trigger instantly. If you press a button slightly too fast it simply queue's and flows after your current action. In ff14 however, sometimes you fire 3 Ninjitsu off and the server chokes, lags up and fails to register the 3rd one until you press again and end up with a bunny on your head.

FF14 servers simply aren't capable of faster or smoother combat.

[Dualgunner]

Shortening the GCD probably wouldn't work either.

It's not that WoW is super fast, it's just far smoother. Abilities flow without that short server lag. Even if you macro 4 off-gcd's together, they all trigger instantly. If you press a button slightly too fast it simply queue's and flows after your current action. In ff14 however, sometimes you fire 3 Ninjitsu off and the server chokes, lags up and fails to register the 3rd one until you press again and end up with a bunny on your head.

FF14 servers simply aren't capable of faster or smoother combat.

Basically this. The only good thing XIV's server tick gives us is slidecasting, really.

[Lunalepsy]

Yes! We need something more interactive than spamming 1-2-3-4!

[Ilan]

I doubt we'll see faster paced combat. That will essentially be a major adjustment to balance across the board. On top of that, the devs know things like Ninja exist, and anyone who's suggested the game be faster has clearly never touched the job.

Ninja is not fast if you are also playing games like tera or blade and soul.

They will never change the complete combat system, way to much work and way to many people would be overwhelmed and would stop playing, both isn't wat SE wants.

[Aylis]

Ninja is not fast if you are also playing games like tera or blade and soul.

They will never change the complete combat system, way to much work and way to many people would be overwhelmed and would stop playing, both isn't wat SE wants.

SWG comes to mind always when talks about a complete combat style change comes up. It's the only game I recall that did such a drastic move and we saw what happened. A majority of the player base was alienated and eventually the game shut down for good. I like to think companies saw that and took it to heart about the risks of changing things drastically at a games core well long after it's been out.

Also yes on ninja, I don't play one but am going off my friends comments who does main a ninja and who joins me sometimes in BnS. They play a good ninja here and love the class, but comment from time to time about sometimes struggling to keep up with BnS game play speeds.

[KaldeaSahaline]

I doubt we'll see faster paced combat. That will essentially be a major adjustment to balance across the board. On top of that, the devs know things like Ninja exist, and anyone who's suggested the game be faster has clearly never touched the job.

NINs have the same CPM as some of the slower melee classes in WoW.

[Ilan]

SWG comes to mind always when talks about a complete combat style change comes up. It's the only game I recall that did such a drastic move and we saw what happened. A majority of the player base was alienated and eventually the game shut down for good. I like to think companies saw that and took it to heart about the risks of changing things drastically at a games core well long after it's been out.

Also yes on ninja, I don't play one but am going off my friends comments who does main a ninja and who joins me sometimes in BnS. They play a good ninja here and love the class, but comment from time to time about sometimes struggling to keep up with BnS game play speeds.

Yes because ninja is only a fast class in here, in other games it would be a freaking slow class.

I catch myself hammering buttons on ninja like i do in bns pretty often.