Alpha First Look: Video 7 – Levequests and Party Combat

[Klefth]

Aaaaaaand combat does indeed look like a spamfest. Do people really want it to be even faster/more spam-happy than that? :/

[Aion]

Aaaaaaand combat does indeed look like a spamfest. Do people really want it to be even faster/more spam-happy than that? :/

ahem...well...yes

[Starlord]

Aaaaaaand combat does indeed look like a spamfest. Do people really want it to be even faster/more spam-happy than that? :/

All (most) MMO's are spam You know why? because every MMO I play, I used the same moves and spam them 121231123444322123, From WoW, to Aion, to Rift to Linage.... All the same.. even FFXIV and soon to be FFXIV: ARR. Spam doesn't really mean how fast you do it.. Spam is how many time you do the same thing.

In life we spam too... Wake up> Eat> Work>Eat again>Something in-between> Sleep then Repeat .

The question becomes, is the game good enough to deal with said spam?

[Eekiki]

All (most) MMO's are spam You know why? because every MMO I play, I used the same moves and spam them 121231123444322123, From WoW, to Aion, to Rift to Linage.... All the same.. even FFXIV and soon to be FFXIV: ARR. Spam doesn't really mean how fast you do it.. Spam is how many time you do the same thing.

In life we spam too... Wake up> Eat> Work>Eat again>Something in-between> Sleep then Repeat .

The question becomes, is the game good enough to deal with said spam?

And guess what? Even FFXI, too.

[Starlord]

And guess what? Even FFXI, too.

Exactly.

/10char

[Hulan]

And guess what? Even FFXI, too.

I resent that remark! I definitely used Meditate occasionally between those Tachi:Yukikaze (some literary license was taken with this comment).

[Eekiki]

I resent that remark! I definitely used Meditate occasionally between those Tachi:Yukikaze (some literary license was taken with this comment).

^_^

But y'know, that's why I played THF and PUP. There was a little something extra to those jobs besides spamming weapon skills and spells.

[Yrusama]

^_^

But y'know, that's why I played THF and PUP. There was a little something extra to those jobs besides spamming weapon skills and spells.

THANK YOU! PUP/DNC or THF/DNC, you'll be doing so many different things it'll make your head spin!

Mages typically have more variety in their roles, if you don't want to keep spamming. I know against Van Darnus (normal difficulty) I tossed a few nukes in every time he teleported just to keep the DPS up. Now that they're bringing back the water spell (see icons in screenshots/videos) CNJ will have even more to toss out there between heals!

[Klefth]

And guess what? Even FFXI, too.

It didn't look like mindless ws spam every 3 seconds, though. Heck, the ARC doing that leve near the beginning barely landed a couple of autoattacks between all of that ws spam.

[Eekiki]

It didn't look like mindless ws spam every 3 seconds, though. Heck, the ARC doing that leve near the beginning barely landed a couple of autoattacks between all of that ws spam.

I don't know about you, but when I played XI I got a lot more excited about the weapon skills I used than the auto attacks. By that logic, combat should be a lot more exciting if the player is able to execute weapon skills more rapidly. It isn't like we'll be able to spam weapon skills infinitely. We only get 1000 TP after all, and it looks like it doesn't regen all that quickly in combat.

Surprised no one's mentioned it, but hey! Did you notice the ARC has a ranged auto-attack?