How do you envision the new combat system "where skill and tactics matter"?

[darkstarpoet1]

i know what i feel the new system will be like, but i will not trash it until i see it in place and get a chance to use it. my worries are that the auto attack will slow down overall gameplay in battles and that i will see most people just run to mobs, pull out weapons, and let auto attack do all the work. i see it going more to the xi strick sub job system as well which is the reason i refused to play xi and would leave this game. i hope i am wrong. any system can have a great or horrible execution so i hope this system has the great side of things and i have unfounded worries.

i will hold off final decision until after i see how auto attack changes things after the first change to see which direction it is taking.

[Vesperia]

i know what i feel the new system will be like, but i will not trash it until i see it in place and get a chance to use it. my worries are that the auto attack will slow down overall gameplay in battles and that i will see most people just run to mobs, pull out weapons, and let auto attack do all the work. i see it going more to the xi strick sub job system as well which is the reason i refused to play xi and would leave this game. i hope i am wrong. any system can have a great or horrible execution so i hope this system has the great side of things and i have unfounded worries.

i will hold off final decision until after i see how auto attack changes things after the first change to see which direction it is taking.

Go on, trash it. I won't mind.

[Sephr]

Auto-attack isn't a reason to expect the system to be slow, it works in just about every other modern MMO (Of course, FFXI's pretty ancient and it's auto-attack will hopefully not be a reflection of XIV's).

Would be nice if they implemented some new elements like better reactionary techniques, combo techniques (where one strike opens up the option to use use the next) and stuff, but I'm not expecting much. Certainly not expecting 1.18 to provide us with a final well-rounded system.

The info we've had this week has been pretty sweet though, I'm not going to assume anything yet, especially not going to assume it sucks over something as trivial as auto-attack.