Is this the BEST they could come up with?

[Rykan]

So....we've all been complaining about it since the launch. This game was a spam-fest nightmare on day one; even our "auto-attacks" had to be initiated manually. Well, we've come a long way, but we're not there yet.

I realize we were all tired of spamming our actions, but I can't BELIEVE this is what SE came up with, for the solution. Rather than INCREASE the duration and CD timers on our actions, they simply cut down the amount of actions we have access to. I mean, seriously, that's THEIR SOLUTION?

Make my job/class even less unique by taking away 60% of our slot options? Were they just trying to salvage this crappy action bar, by cutting down the amount of actions we have available? or was this really their solution to the spam problem?


I don't know, yet, but either way...I'm not impressed. I want Shell back; I want it and Protect to last longer than 30 f@#$ing seconds; I want tons of VERY UNIQUE actions; and I DON'T want to be spamming them every 3 seconds.

[Antanias]

I like the current system, thank you

[Starlord]

I like the current system, thank you

I concur my friend.

[Wevlum]

I like the current system, thank you

Agreed. Other than a few balancing issues which are in part due to content rather than purely class design issues (i.e. close range single target DDs are fine if the game isn't completely range-centric and aoe-centric but that's another topic) I absolutely love the new system.

Even the spell changes which some people were less sure about which to a degree is a fair complaint if you like more traditional FF spells. However, in my opinion I really like how each element seems to have its own little traits and quirks i.e. thunder being about the single target damage, fire being about aoe. I was beginning to find the previous FF spells where you basically have the same damage spell in different 'flavors' purely to get a 'super effective' hit a bit tiresome after so many games with that kind of system, so I do like the mage changes. That said please make ice spells chain even if the combo bonus is just lowered mp or something (I live for the combo animations and flashy icons).

Again, aside from certain trends happening in content where certain classes are favored (not saying the only viable option) due to how said content plays out, I adore the class changes and what jobs bring to the armory system; and those issues are still being addressed and tweaked hopefully so I look forward to 2.0.

[Req]

So....we've all been complaining about it since the launch. This game was a spam-fest nightmare on day one; even our "auto-attacks" had to be initiated manually. Well, we've come a long way, but we're not there yet.

I realize we were all tired of spamming our actions, but I can't BELIEVE this is what SE came up with, for the solution. Rather than INCREASE the duration and CD timers on our actions, they simply cut down the amount of actions we have access to. I mean, seriously, that's THEIR SOLUTION?

Make my job/class even less unique by taking away 60% of our slot options? Were they just trying to salvage this crappy action bar, by cutting down the amount of actions we have available? or was this really their solution to the spam problem?


I don't know, yet, but either way...I'm not impressed. I want Shell back; I want it and Protect to last longer than 30 f@#$ing seconds; I want tons of VERY UNIQUE actions; and I DON'T want to be spamming them every 3 seconds.

The problem was the fact that we had a ton of actions on every class that all did relatively the same thing. There is job uniqueness now I don't know how dont see that. Also, protect lasts for 5 minutes.

[NefarioCall]

i'mreallyexcitedfor2.0

[Nix]

Protect takes care of physical AND magic damage, it also lasts for 5 minutes so there's one wish granted right off the bat

The old system was kinda convoluted I think. . . it was nice to have so many actions but I think now that it's simplified it is a lot smoother. I miss the AoE toggle but that's kinda a non-issue since we've all (re)learned our jobs and whatnot.
People were apprehensive at first, myself included but after settling in with it, it turned out to be a pretty pleasing system. UI woes aside I think it's a lot smoother than it was.

Sad fact is coming in here and chest thumping, yelling your wants won't get you far . You'll attract more flies with honey, why not lay some suggestions down that might improve the system?

[Rykan]

Protect takes care of physical AND magic damage, it also lasts for 5 minutes so there's one wish granted right off the bat

The old system was kinda convoluted I think. . . it was nice to have so many actions but I think now that it's simplified it is a lot smoother. I miss the AoE toggle but that's kinda a non-issue since we've all (re)learned our jobs and whatnot.
People were apprehensive at first, myself included but after settling in with it, it turned out to be a pretty pleasing system. UI woes aside I think it's a lot smoother than it was.

Sad fact is coming in here and chest thumping, yelling your wants won't get you far . You'll attract more flies with honey, why not lay some suggestions down that might improve the system?

I realize that protect does both, but that's really stupid, imo. If he would make the buffs last 30 minutes (like they did in XI), and he made stuff like Defender that lasts "forever" until negated by "Berserk" or recasting, etc....then things wouldn't have been so "convoluted," as you put it. You wouldn't have a problem with so many actions, b/c you'd rarely use them.

As for the 30 second thing, I was exaggerating...

[Riv]

I realize that protect does both, but that's really stupid, imo. If he would make the buffs last 30 minutes (like they did in XI), and he made stuff like Defender that lasts "forever" until negated by "Berserk" or recasting, etc....then things wouldn't have been so "convoluted," as you put it. You wouldn't have a problem with so many actions, b/c you'd rarely use them.

As for the 30 second thing, I was exaggerating...

So your solution is to play FFXI. I see.

[Nero]

So your solution is to play FFXI. I see.

He wants to play FFXI after they totally nerfed it and made everything in it "Easy Prey".