Why can't we just have combo chains?

[Daniolaut]

Please implement this in the game for all jobs that have combo chains, it is already in the game but only for story fights for what ever reason. It was the same for Hien, when you controlled him against Zenos.

This comes up a lot. I think you'll get people who want compound buttons, and people who want to invalidate it, with a lot of false dichotomies thrown every way, people will say something really dumb like "It will make the game too easy”.

No.

Why?

1.Because it will not work.

2. It also would severely strict the development team from creating unique and fun jobs.

Binding 3 actions of a combo first off only “works” in concept for melee.

This ignores casters and ranged classes.

That’s the first example of it not working.

Second:
Monk.
Monk does not press 1,2,3. Then 4,5,6.

Monk is more “complex” than that.

This also would not work for PLD, WAR, and more Importantly what about DRG? Would DRG be 1,1,1 then 2,2 then... what? Or would it be forever pressing 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1?

Speaking of complexity. If all combo based jobs somehow were capable of being confined to this set up, it would severely restrict the development team from creating fun jobs.

For example.

Low level combat is already dreadfully boring. Find any comment section where people say low level combat in XIV is too boring and everyone responds saying “wait till x level things get much more fast paced.”


Speaking in this matter....

Square-Enix already dumbed down the jobs and gutted a ton of actions.

Gutting the jobs more to fit this mold would homogenize them even further.

“But I works for NPC battles and PvP”

Of course it does. NPC battles are not complex in the least. Setting NPC battles as the bar for complexity and difficulty.... is absurd.

As for PVP, PVP encounters do not last 14 minutes of you hitting a single enemy with a ton of mechanics. They are typically short quick battles or encounters.

Seriously. If you put just a little thought into this, it does not work.

Instead put some time into setting up your hotbars to make sense.

I am capable of making all my hotbars flow smoothly while also matching them up based on role, as well as being on gamepad and also not using expanded hotbars.

So if I’m capable, you are too. It’s already extremely easy and simplistic.....