Resource Management

[Aegis]

Compairing roles really doesnt work in this game, and tanks have their own problems to deal with (could you imagine tankswapping while having to monitor your resources and having dps spike emnity?)

That's actually exactly what I was thinking of. A layer of challenge that doesn't revolve around pattern memorisation or twitch reflexes, but involves a party acting as a party: each member considering the actions of the others.

It's very challenging, but it's a challenge that doesn't rely on your ping.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I don't think SE will make resource management a serious obstacle. This thread is more for the discussion of it as a concept in MMOs in general and how XIV is an example of a game without it.

[Bixby]

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I don't think SE will make resource management a serious obstacle. This thread is more for the discussion of it as a concept in MMOs in general and how XIV is an example of a game without it.

Well, then, in that case: yes, I kind of miss it. I find it enjoyable when it's balanced well (meaning you have to pay attention to it, but you can make one or two recoveries if someone screws up or RNG is being a d-bag). It makes me feel a lot more connected to my party, and to the class I'm playing, and to the situation at hand.

It would be absolutely terrible in FFXIV as it is, though. There are too many twitchy, instant points of failure, and things are too scripted, to throw significant resource management on top of that and make it enjoyable.

[Aegis]

Well, then, in that case: yes, I kind of miss it. I find it enjoyable when it's balanced well (meaning you have to pay attention to it, but you can make one or two recoveries if someone screws up or RNG is being a d-bag). It makes me feel a lot more connected to my party, and to the class I'm playing, and to the situation at hand.

It would be absolutely terrible in FFXIV as it is, though. There are too many twitchy, instant points of failure, and things are too scripted, to throw significant resource management on top of that and make it enjoyable.

Agreed. I just feel without it, the game is a little... arcadey. Dodge this, dodge that, keep up DPS etc. It feels like playing Battletoads again.