Would you have paid monthly for FFXIV if it was released the way it is today?

[Murugan]

I really like the new battle system, but being honest...this is one of the few problems I have with it, I dislike that until you get TP you only sit there and auto-attack. I think that they would have been fine going to say, 18 Abilities total instead of 15 and giving melee classes some non-TP, cooldown only basic moves like the old system, and given magic classes some more spells instead.

With the combo system giving us free weapons skills constantly, basic attacks would make it an unbearable spam fest with little chance/reason to use other abilities.

But I guess some people would prefer that because it requires significantly less thought and they can pretend like they are being more "interactive" by mashing their "one go-to button".

[Physic]

With the combo system giving us free weapons skills constantly, basic attacks would make it an unbearable spam fest with little chance/reason to use other abilities.

But I guess some people would prefer that because it requires significantly less thought and they can pretend like they are being more "interactive" by mashing their "one go-to button".

that doesnt even make sense, how does having basic attacks like we had before make it a spam fest? you can only do them periodically? not to mention i dont remember too many people complaining about spam in 1.19, in fact i remember most melee saying combat was pretty fun. Sitting and waiting on tp is boring, even if its only 15 seconds of boredom, in a 40-60 second fight, thats 25% of the time.

And while there are options for tp like invigorate, invigorate will soon be only useable on 1 or maybe 2 classes. The wait to do anything style of play is not the best idea they had, it wasnt in ffxi, and it still isnt here.

Aside from that i think combat is still entertaining although different, but you are completely BSing yourself if you think it would be impossible to have actual skills you use early in the fight without being spammy. go look at 95% of combat in anywhere else.

[Rowyne]

that doesnt even make sense, how does having basic attacks like we had before make it a spam fest? you can only do them periodically? not to mention i dont remember too many people complaining about spam in 1.19, in fact i remember most melee saying combat was pretty fun. Sitting and waiting on tp is boring, even if its only 15 seconds of boredom, in a 40-60 second fight, thats 25% of the time.

And while there are options for tp like invigorate, invigorate will soon be only useable on 1 or maybe 2 classes. The wait to do anything style of play is not the best idea they had, it wasnt in ffxi, and it still isnt here.

Aside from that i think combat is still entertaining although different, but you are completely BSing yourself if you think it would be impossible to have actual skills you use early in the fight without being spammy. go look at 95% of combat in anywhere else.

^ Quoted for truth.