Final Fantasy XIV Auto-Attack Video

[Corrderio]

I think you're giving them way too much credit. Pretty sure the current speed is there to stay.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I enjoy the auto-attack feature, especially in a game where there is no option for a built in voice chat feature. (It allows me to convey my actions across the text WITHOUT having to sacrifice my playing potential (and yes if you have to type something out in a game without an automated attack you are sacrificing damage for strategy there is no way you can really argue this as your hands are doing something else other than mashing the 1, 2, or 3 keys)

Secondly I feel the pace is just fine, it is indeed faster than XI's auto-attack, something which was fleshed out quite nicely when you got towards the mid-level area of your job (because you should have had plenty of job/subjob abilities and/or spells to play around with in combat).

Also, I am glad they are making the animations look much better, if anything at all, Final Fantasy is KNOWN for its flashy animations (Summons in the non-MMO FF games are like 30 second animations for crying out loud) and it was one of the biggest turn-offs for me in this game (the lack of flashy animations), I'm really pleased with this letter to the producer, albeit I was hoping for some more job information...but this satiates my hunger for the time being.

Square-Enix is working hard, and I sure all the ridiculous bitching/whining in their forums are making them shit bricks about trying to "please" us.

And to note about the delay issue in XI, I believe the 60 delay (1 second) was more of a coding issue than anything, with a newer game I would expect it to either: A) Not exist due to better coding or B) have it being only a 10 Delay (1/6 second) or something a lot less than 60 Delay.

[Steelcyclone]

To me it seems like ffxi boring slow battle system all over again now. All they did was make the battle system much slower then before with auto attack. Sure theres some cool looking moves now but slow boring battle system is still a slow boring battle system.

[RexSkyborn]

Auto attack is stupidly slow, the current battle system seems like it would be much more fun.. /welcome back all the people who afk while partying.

I at least hope they have a way to disable auto attack, because as an archer sometimes you don't want to keep shooting arrows if you're watching your hate

[Dyne]

Auto attack is stupidly slow, the current battle system seems like it would be much more fun.. /welcome back all the people who afk while partying.

I at least hope they have a way to disable auto attack, because as an archer sometimes you don't want to keep shooting arrows if you're watching your hate

Pretty sure Archer won't have auto attack unless they gave archer secondary weapons like daggers. As for it being slow, that's what haste skills from lancer and maybe haste spell and gear later on are for.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

Pretty sure Archer won't have auto attack unless they gave archer secondary weapons like daggers. As for it being slow, that's what haste skills from lancer and maybe haste spell and gear later on are for.

Pretty sure EVERYONE is going to have Auto Attack, otherwise what's the point? It will still use the same amount of arrows, regardless.

[Stupifyed]

Auto attack is stupidly slow, the current battle system seems like it would be much more fun.. /welcome back all the people who afk while partying.

I at least hope they have a way to disable auto attack, because as an archer sometimes you don't want to keep shooting arrows if you're watching your hate

I don't think Arch will change at all, probably why they were left out of that video like the DoM are.

However if they do get a auto attack i think it will be like ffxi with basic dagger or axe attacks.

[kukurumei]

I don't think Arch will change at all, probably why they were left out of that video like the DoM are.

However if they do get a auto attack i think it will be like ffxi with basic dagger or axe attacks.

Well since they are playing with TP instead of stamina, it should be a bit more balance. Can't revolve around the TKO full stamina combos.

archers like all other DoW need first build the TP requirements, so they need to go a round or 5 in fisticuffs first.

[Zephir]

personally i love AA..One of best win of FFXI is that you can chat during a fight without stop fighting or other.

A sort of social feature^^

Someone said that AA is boring....

It's a true shot..but personally I think that continuosly hit a key is more boring...

And sometimes is a sort of issue when you write a word in chat and you can't immediantly hit 1 for atk becouse cursor was in text space XD

[Dyne]

I love this, now the actions are instant, instead of waiting for 5-10 seconds for provoke to activate, or getting stuck on invigorate. With auto attack, people can focus on other actions rather than focusing on pressing attack. That last part with the pug stun move then moving behind to sneak attack reminded me of thief, totally not possible with the stamina bar. That's how we used to kill NMs as thief, sleep bolt then move behind, sneak attack+weapon skill.