The Letter is up

[Alegis]

On the other hand, the speed of auto-attack seems about as fast as what we had in FFXI, and weren't we told that it would be faster than that?

U may missed the part where he said that the content in this video is still under development. He even used red colored letters for this.

[GabbaGabba]

I just don't see us getting AA Phantom/Spirit dart, ya know? Like... how can you reliably start your casts if you're stuck in an attack animation. Even as easy as the "big" NMs are now, people can die if you're on mage and you accidentally hit enter on Phantom/Spirit and then try to heal right after. It's annoying, and I feel like they won't mess that up.

if you are the dedicated healer, there is no reason for you to be attack the mob in the first place

that LNC WS is mad secksi

[Aistaraina]

if you are the dedicated healer, there is no reason for you to be attack the mob in the first place

Yes, but we can't heal unless we're in active mode. Going into active mode causes our weapon to come out. Pulling our weapon out causes us to auto attack. So either mages can finally cast without a weapon out, we don't get auto attack, or its XI all over again and we face backwards lol

[SydeBeheln]

Looks good. I can say that this is a solid working system.
BTW im curious why he said "only classes" were effected by AA...
So does that mean for jobs we will be seeing a whole separate battle system???

[Adol]

I just don't see us getting AA Phantom/Spirit dart, ya know? Like... how can you reliably start your casts if you're stuck in an attack animation. Even as easy as the "big" NMs are now, people can die if you're on mage and you accidentally hit enter on Phantom/Spirit and then try to heal right after. It's annoying, and I feel like they won't mess that up.

With the auto attack system being introduced you'll most likely be able to cancel the AA in to a skill/spell either before or directly after the AA. This would mean that reliable spell casting routines wouldn't be easily interrupted. If this is the case I don't think mages have too much to worry about.

[Adol]

Looks good. I can say that this is a solid working system.
BTW im curious why he said "only classes" were effected by AA...
So does that mean for jobs we will be seeing a whole separate battle system???

When he says "Battle classes only" he most likely means that there won't be an auto attack system for Gatherers or Crafters.

[GabbaGabba]

Yes, but we can't heal unless we're in active mode. Going into active mode causes our weapon to come out. Pulling our weapon out causes us to auto attack. So either mages can finally cast without a weapon out, we don't get auto attack, or its XI all over again and we face backwards lol

but what are we going to AA if we're not targetting a mob? i dont know, but im just going by how it is in ffxi. you can draw your weapon but unless u manually choose to attack the mob, you won't go into AA mode. just active mode

[Akuun]

The 2 week delay is a real bummer. I was looking forward to this patch way back in the mid spring.
Now it seems the delay is going to be nearly 3 months.
I seem to recall Yoshi saying the updates would be every 2 weeks for small patches and 2-3 months for the larger ones.

So all in all we are looking at 5-6 months since work on this patch started.
Is it just me, or does it seem like this game is going to take more time to fix, than it would to start from scratch? Well the new animations and changes to that attack system look promising, still mixed feelings about the speed of the auto attacks especially on pug.

[Black_Rose]

my lancer is so ready to use chaos thrust again, har XD

[SydeBeheln]

When he says "Battle classes only" he most likely means that there won't be an auto attack system for Gatherers or Crafters.

hmm perhaps dats trueee