Too much, now too little. AutoAttack

[lerunes_second]

It's only justifiable for you
Dude if your so board then leave
If you have time to time in chat then you are not using enough skills.
Or wait until 1.19 and I will rank your butt to 50 in a week.
Then you will have plenty of skills.

[Konachibi]

It's only justifiable for you
Dude if your so board then leave
If you have time to time in chat then you are not using enough skills.
Or wait until 1.19 and I will rank your butt to 50 in a week.
Then you will have plenty of skills.

Some people like to take things slow and steady and enjoy the experience rather than trying to do everything RIGHT NOW and RIGHT AWAY. Some of us play online games for the fact that there's other people to socialise with, rather than trying to rush to end-game by yourself. With the system now I can choose to take on tough enemies and concentrate on mashing skills for victory, or take on an easy enemy and leave it on auto-attack whilst I have a chat with someone in my linkshell, either way I gain SP and enjoy the game.

But then some people prefer having to manually operate all aspects of their characters battling, which is why I said it'd be a nice idea to be able to switch auto-attack on or off, giving people the option to immerse themselves in the fight, or immerse themselves in a more social aspect.

For tanks, auto-attack is a god-send as they can give other party members advice on where to stand or what to do during large battle whilst gaining the TP to use skills, where as DD classes often just need to follow the tactics and do all the damage they can, so auto-attack for them isn't so good as they feel more like they're waiting around for TP to build.

But overall it just goes to show that it's hard/nearly impossible to build a battle system that absolutely everyone will enjoy.

[Kopuno]

It's only justifiable for you
Dude if your so board then leave
If you have time to time in chat then you are not using enough skills.
Or wait until 1.19 and I will rank your butt to 50 in a week.
Then you will have plenty of skills.

It's only justifiable for you: In a matter of a opinion, your opinion means little to nothing

Dude if your so bored then leave: I've been here since Alpha, I think I'll relax a bit longer. Besides, it's amusing to see people like you feel the need to be douches when someone shares a difrence of opinion.

If you have time to time in chat then you are not using enough skills. : My skill usage is just fine, single player MMO that way ---> However obvious why you don't care to chat, your personality is that of wet cardboard.

Or wait until 1.19 and I will rank your butt to 50 in a week.: And like most of these people with such time and skills with the many 50's they have I'm sure took advantage of the Leve exploit. Where as I refused to try and justify broken mechanics and found something better to with my time til the the exploits got fixed.

Believe it or not as situational as it maybe, a lot of people came back because they did not share your idea's of 11111111 being fun.

[Konachibi]

It's only justifiable for you: In a matter of a opinion, your opinion means little to nothing

Dude if your so bored then leave: I've been here since Alpha, I think I'll relax a bit longer. Besides, it's amusing to see people like you feel the need to be douches when someone shares a difrence of opinion.

If you have time to time in chat then you are not using enough skills. : My skill usage is just fine, single player MMO that way ---> However obvious why you don't care to chat, your personality is that of wet cardboard.

Or wait until 1.19 and I will rank your butt to 50 in a week.: And like most of these people with such time and skills with the many 50's they have I'm sure took advantage of the Leve exploit. Where as I refused to try and justify broken mechanics and found something better to with my time til the the exploits got fixed.

Believe it or not as situational as it maybe, a lot of people came back because they did not share your idea's of 11111111 being fun.

+1

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It was like arcane mages in Warcraft, with their amazing rotation of 11112111121111211112, boooooooring!

[darkstarpoet1]

If you have time to time in chat then you are not using enough skills. : My skill usage is just fine, single player MMO that way ---> However obvious why you don't care to chat, your personality is that of wet cardboard.

ya know, some people do prefer to voice chat to typing. the people that do voice had no need for the slowing down of the system to a snails pace. you talk about others not caring to chat when you use the same elitest attitude that gives the square forum community a bad name"if you don't like it leave". the majority of people already have.

Or wait until 1.19 and I will rank your butt to 50 in a week.: And like most of these people with such time and skills with the many 50's they have I'm sure took advantage of the Leve exploit. Where as I refused to try and justify broken mechanics and found something better to with my time til the the exploits got fixed.

i bet you also want chain bonuses added and plan on using that. you only didn't like leve bonuses because you wanted to go pull 4543985435435 raptors in a row with that super boring camp and pull junk.

Believe it or not as situational as it maybe, a lot of people came back because they did not share your idea's of 11111111 being fun.

and believe it or not alot have left due do this new system. my server population is continuing to decline.

[Konachibi]

There is the possibility that the implimentation of auto-attack may have been something to do with the upcoming job classes and their mechanics, it may seem boring now but once jobs are out it could be entirely different, and SE wouldn't want to change the battle system like, at the same time as adding jobs as it'd add way too much confusion, so better to change it early and let people become accustomed to it before adding the spangly extras.

That's just speculation though.

[Andrien]

@ OP

If you want to control damage output and enmity, you simply don't use TP abilities.. or just turn around

[Akusushi]

In all honesty, I just went from spamming 1(2,3) to spamming skills.

That aside though, basic attacks (including ones bought with marks) should just have their recast timers taken away. That way, if you don't want to spam, you can just let auto-attack go all you want, and I'll just be over there <- spamming my attacks and enjoying the battle system like I used to.

[AsterBarnivere]

In all honesty, I just went from spamming 1(2,3) to spamming skills.

That aside though, basic attacks (including ones bought with marks) should just have their recast timers taken away. That way, if you don't want to spam, you can just let auto-attack go all you want, and I'll just be over there <- spamming my attacks and enjoying the battle system like I used to.

I wanted an OPTION to turn AA on and OFF... now I'm suffering the slow gameplay and standing in place..

[darkstarpoet1]

In all honesty, I just went from spamming 1(2,3) to spamming skills.

That aside though, basic attacks (including ones bought with marks) should just have their recast timers taken away. That way, if you don't want to spam, you can just let auto-attack go all you want, and I'll just be over there <- spamming my attacks and enjoying the battle system like I used to.

i really don't mind auto attack being in the game as it does have uses. they don't even need to remove the recast timers completely. if they just took like the light basic abilities and put them on a timer close to the same time as auto attack is i would be happy. waiting for 1 min after a basic attack to use another one is beyond horrid. wait 1 minute....swing....miss.... wait another minute.

i just feel the system speed should be increased which would increase my enjoyment level. i am not a fan of the standing and waiting on the game to build up enough tp for me to actually get involved in battle.