Any plans for Skillchains?

[Molly_Millions]

I hope so. Battle Regimens have a whole host of problems.

I outlined the problems with the current system and potential short and long term fixes to the system for a more enjoyable, cooperation-oriented battle system here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...llChains2.0%29

let me address some of your complaints

Battle Regimens were intended as an easier and newbie-friendly alternative to skill chains, but in reality, they turn out to be just the opposite.

This isn't true for the reasons I posted earlier, there is less emphasis on skill order (although it is still essential for a successfull BR) and less emphasis on timing. Both make BRs far more easy to pull off with regularity.

If you take too long stacking a Battle Regimen, your DPS suffers, making the usage of Battle Regimens detrimental to your overall battle performance.

Practice make perfect. There is no reason that party members should be standing around waiting to start a BR for more than a few seconds. Good communication helps.

Battle Regimens do more damage the more players are in a party. Therefore, in a small party of 2-4 players, it is usually better to not use Battle Regimens at all.

parties as a whole do more damage with more members. it doesn't make BRs useless in a party of 4 or even 3.

There is no structure to the Battle Regimens, and the order of stacked skills doesn't matter at all.

if you believe this, your not doing them correctly

The difficulty in BRs arises not from complex strategy, but rather from the cumbersome nature of putting them together.

there are visual cues all over the place, pay attention and communicate, and this shouldn't be an issue.


why you say skillchains are better

As long as there is at least one player in the party who knows how to skill chain properly, you can do it quickly and easily.

the same can be said for BRs

The newbie gets to do whatever he wants, and the veteran uses his skills to combo the newbie's weaponskills automatically.

this isn't true, there were tons of combination in XI that did nothing at all

There's enough time to have a skill chain order that matters.

? skill order matters in BRs too