Bringing Back the Secondary Charge-Up Meter

[Charismatic]

It's more like, there was a curved bar with 3 meters that could fill.
It would start off with 0 meters, after a few seconds one would be filled, then two, then 3 then it'd go back to two, then 1 and then 0. The pattern just repeats itself but the effect of the attack accuracy/attack power and so on were affected by how many meters were filled when you used the skill.

[Griss]

It's more like, there was a curved bar with 3 meters that could fill.
It would start off with 0 meters, after a few seconds one would be filled, then two, then 3 then it'd go back to two, then 1 and then 0. The pattern just repeats itself but the effect of the attack accuracy/attack power and so on were affected by how many meters were filled when you used the skill.

For those who still cant wrap there head around it.Look here


Though to be honest, I'm glad it was taken out. All it served to do was double the amount of times we had to press a button to activate a skill, mask the presence and use of stamina, and slow combat down to a crawl.

on a side note /wave to any one who's test characters name appears in the shot, that day was one of my favorite xiv memory's.

[Haibel]

For those who still cant wrap there head around it.Look here


Though to be honest, I'm glad it was taken out. All it served to do was double the amount of times we had to press a button to activate a skill, mask the presence and use of stamina, and slow combat down to a crawl.

on a side note /wave to any one who's test characters name appears in the shot, that day was one of my favorite xiv memory's.

Ahh the memories made back on ShadowLord server. Is this from the night I planned a big party for around ageless wise crystal and didn't make it because my internet was being retarded. Oh how Idealistic I was in wanting to test tanking on the Alpha. Or was it beta 1 I was trying to do that.

[Rinoa]

It sounds complicated, I WANT IT.

[Rokien]

^.^ Thank you zan for making this thread. As I said to you in the other post, I'm sure no one will disagree to this(probably wrong on that) But you got my vote in! NOW LETS GET SOME DEVS IN HERE PEOPLE!

[Haibel]

IIRC the system didn't work all that well. but really nothing did in Alpha. the servers were soooo bad.

[Anima]

It'd be really Awesome If they could Revamp and Improve Old Ideas and implement them, with of course, testing to see If It suits the Battle System. I'm all for making the Battle more Epic and Cool(With Limit Breaks/Overdrive/1-2Hr Ability/etc)

[Rokien]

Bumping this. Again.

[Dreadnought]

so it was like a stamina bar to the stamina bar?
or was it like a charge that added extra damage if you chose or something?
if it was the latter then yeah id say bring your system around. if its like the first then id say nooooo thanks.

[Zantetsuken]

so it was like a stamina bar to the stamina bar?
or was it like a charge that added extra damage if you chose or something?
if it was the latter then yeah id say bring your system around. if its like the first then id say nooooo thanks.

The functionality of it wasn't really spelled out during the ALPHA, and lets face it, not much worked back then. But as I recall, it seemed to me that you could either attack right away for an accuracy bonus, or wait until it was completely charged and get a power bonus instead. (ALPHA was so buggy, it was hard to even get a baseline idea of how things were supposed to work so we could evaluate them)

It was a rough concept then, and it shouldn't have existed for normal attacks, but if it were to be revamped and reintroduced with certain TP attacks, I think it would really set FFXIV's battle system apart.