Current classes/jobs are too simple

[Sylkis]

Try doing the Clockwise motion with your right hand and counter-clockwise motion with your left feet

Yes, I forgot to say "with your right hand and feet or left hand and feet".

To OP (and really anyone who is curious about these things): You should try playing Tera. It's a free-to-play MMO, and I'm not suggesting you stay with it at all, because it fails on so many levels. But it did one thing EXTREMELY well: combat.

-Balls

I did play TERA for a while, the combat is quite nice. I like how you had a dodge skill that did an attack at the same time (I played warrior).

But the other aspects of the game are lacking. Those lacking parts are done well here in XIV which is why I'm still here. But I really do enjoy the combat over there and wish it was here.

Perhaps we are still here for the same reason.

Pushing buttons constantly doesn't make it a more involved system. I'd rather have the combat system of FFXIV 1.23 back. It has a lot more depth than the system we have now, in my opinion. Weapon skills costed between 1,000 and 1,500 TP and weapon skills each had individual cool downs.

I personally enjoyed 1.23 combat, but many people hated it because of the engine it was running on. Animation lock was a system limitation(though it did add more depth to combat but in an unpolished way). They were hating the wrong thing.

The key that made it enjoyable was that you could not just use a rotation because when you are interrupted by the mechanics, you cant go back on that rotation and had to do something completely different, due to individual cooldowns. You had to think.


Had it been given a better chance... The complaints about it (which were in fact toward the game engine) probably lead to it being scrapped for what we have now.