More advanced battle system please!

[Korilynn]

First of all for example howcome shield, parry, sword fighting isn't more controlable?

I don't think many players really want it. Let's look at TERA. People who want more action, the ability to dodge on their own, this is an MMO who's combat it what you see asked for on MMO forums often, usually by people who don't care about story...and they're not playing it (and it is a fun MMO).

A lot of players want it kept simple.

[Noshpan]

Tera-style combat? No thanks. Been there. Done that. Got the mount.

[Jamez82]

Sounds like someone wants to play Elder Scrolls Online.

[Violyre]

Remember when auto-attack wasn't a thing in FFXIV?

Yeah, I like to block out that memory too.

[kyuven]

Sounds like someone wants to play Elder Scrolls Online.

Whose combat system and writing were actually pretty good.
The problem was literally everything else o_o

[MrSmiley]

Remember when auto-attack wasn't a thing in FFXIV?

Yeah, I like to block out that memory too.

I still feel the existence or not of auto attack is pretty irrelevant, unless you want to not press a button when an enemy is just about to die. Either way, you need to press your buttons to get anything done. The skills damage will be adjusted up or down to match whether auto attack is there or not so it really just..doesn't add, or remove, anything imo.

[Yukiko]

No one played Final Fantasy Crystal Cronicles?

[Delily]

The holy trinity is a major issue and does not fit in a FF universe with jobs - just tell me one Final Fantasy (with jobs) where you had only tank, heal and damage?
We are missing CC (=CrowdControl), "real" Support, element wheel, status effects, item management (=potions, throwings)...
While FFXIV tries to have some of those skills, they destroy them with cooldown or requirements that makes the skill useless!

That is because, with the obvious exception of FFXI, all other games are single player console RPGS. They are a completely different genre which different design considerations.

[Synestra]

TERA had one of the best tanking(As a Lancer) that I've ever experienced in an MMORPG. A sad shame the rest of it was bad.

Yeah both Tera and Vindictus are pure win from tanking pov, tho when you get hang on boss emotes it became kinda easy to avoid all hits in both game but it was still fun.

[Mishini_Dracoto]

lol this thread.

Mastanight and his infinite Wisdom about gaming client and server programming. Quick, somebody find his Resumé so he can apply to work at Square-Enix.

Nevermind the fact that the game has been out for a year and a half and has plenty of subscribers.

Where's that thread? All the death's of FFXIV.

Here's a new one.

"A New player got to 50 and decided they didn't like the battle system. yes it took them that long to realize they didn't like the game, so the cried about it on the forums. All the players agreed and quit the game to go play Chess. Square Enix had to shutdown the servers because the game was no longer profitable"