Thread: The new 1.18 Battle System enhancements thread!

Originally Posted by BlaiseLallaise

In general, I like the feel, but as stated, the recast timers on the basic attacks are way too high. Cutting them in half from a 30/60 second recast to a 15/30 second recast would feel a bit better. I, too, thought combat felt a little slow with the way they set the basic attack recast timers. And to top it off, now some of them require MP. The long recast in addition to the new MP costs is just too much. I'd be happy with the MP cost if the timers were halved.

Personally I think the recast timers for basic attacks should be a derivation on the weapons delay. (I will be using Gladiator skills for this example.) So if you have a weapon delay of 2.5 seconds then something like light stab should be about 75% of that speed since it was faster then the basic slash before which would give you a delay of 1.9 seconds. Heavy slash was one of the biggest stamina costing basic skills so something like 200% so a 5 second recast. Since heavy stab was between light and heavy slash something like 150% would be appropriate so 3.8 seconds. (percentages can be adjusted as needed.)