Thread: 1.18 patch Attack Speed Slower?

makes me wonder why he does too. The whole auto attack system seems like a downgraded slow battle system. This games just going to get trampled over by all the other mmo to come. I mean most people that play this game find it more of a chore. 2 of my rl friends play this, we were also big on ffxi and never once did we really find it a chore to play the game from the time of release to this day. By the time this game even gets slightly good it will be kicked under the curb from the games to come. Only thing this game has going for it is graphics imo. It looks really nice but that quickly changes after playing for a couple hours.

Great video, auto-attack looks awesome and beats the hell out of the 11111111 spam. Looks like i will finally be able to talk in ls chat and fight at the same time.

Attack speed seems to be on a similar level to FF11, but considering that TP is stored, you are managing yout TP bar now instead of your stamina bar.

You can pretty much do like 3 moves with a mere 1k TP(which isn't hard to get in this game), so that in essence is faster.


Basically the attack speed is what you would expect if you automated pressing 1 in-between your routine, and stamina combined with TP to create a single "meter bar".

Add to the re-balanced casting bar, and the timer cool downs, and you got FFXI-2...

Well I'll refrain till I play it, but it sounds fine if not dull. But it's a good start to a battle system that doesn't go crazy.

TP = the bar where you strategy is
Cool down = the place where you consider your options.

I would have pefered for it to be slightly faster cause pug looks so slow compared to it now, but whatever. I'm wondering how delay will be working in this game. I remember playing DRK in ffxi and the delay between attacks was likr 6 seconds and that was awful. Just looking at the video it seems all classes have different speeds. Sword was about 2 secs, h2h was about 1.5, and lance was about 3 seconds. I hope we don't see any weapons past 4 seconds though. I wonder if weapon delay will be displayed on the weapon stats now? I wished they just kept the delay the same across all weapons cause it would be no different DPS wise between DD than it is now.

Originally Posted by Trigger

I would have pefered for it to be slightly faster cause pug looks so slow compared to it now, but whatever. I'm wondering how delay will be working in this game. I remember playing DRK in ffxi and the delay between attacks was likr 6 seconds and that was awful. Just looking at the video it seems all classes have different speeds. Sword was about 2 secs, h2h was about 1.5, and lance was about 3 seconds. I hope we don't see any weapons past 4 seconds though. I wonder if weapon delay will be displayed on the weapon stats now? I wished they just kept the delay the same across all weapons cause it would be no different DPS wise between DD than it is now.

Well depends how many skills they end up giving you and how TP is calculated. Have to try it before making initial judgement.

If say a slow great sword gives you 400 TP per hit... that's would really balance out attack speed.

I should have gone farther:

In implementing auto-attack in 1.18, we’ll also need to make major revisions to enmity algorithms, tweak the motion of certain actions (as seen in the above video), and also rebalance a handful of them—just to list a few battle-related items.

Originally Posted by zoekwon

yup. but also mean we have to wait lil longer.

+2weeks then original schedule isn't that bad. They want a big bang, so they're trying to line it up.

Depend ultimately what 1.18 is going to hold, and when 1.19 is going to come.

If 1.19 is coming in 4 months, fck that.