Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
Boring? Slow I get, but boring?
The combat generally is boring imo. But thats something I’ve said since alpha pretty much. I also think it’s too fast. (well perhaps not fast but requires far to much input for what you get out)
The reason it’s boring though is because skills all feel lacklustre and combat never changes. It’s just a long ass glorified auto attack with a few flashy and sparkly effects that don’t really have any connection to the fight.
Blm for example.
Enters a fight with lets say Chaos. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Lakshmi. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Yojimbo. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Kefka. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight Belias. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
same blm goes to fight anything else…. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4…….
and so on and so on and so on…

Boringgggg! Oh Hey new primal in 5.0 I wonder what a blm will do.. B3 > t3 > b4 > f3 > f4 > f4 > f4 > f1 > f4 > f4 >f4……. (maybe squeeze in a new job action somewhere or swap t3 for t5..) it really is mindless

Going back to lacklustre skills the problem is nothing looks or feels powerful. And generally nothing is actually seen anyway. I play sam fairly frequently but if you hid the sen bar from me I wouldn’t be able to tell you if an attack animation was kasha or if it was gecko because outside of a different buff icon whats the difference. They’re both just flashes and sparkles lost in a myriad of flashes and sparkles from a bunch of other players..
I don’t want action style combat or anything like that but it would be nice to feel the buttons you press actually do something more add a few sparkles to auto attack. But that’s where I feel its too fast. Constantly pressing buttons but nothing ever actually happens…. Its like the difference between smacking a red striking dummy and a blue one….