[dev1149] Please bring back the queuing of actions!

[Echo]

The complaints I recall about this feature is how certain abilities overlapped with one another, which was a purely cosmetic problem. I did not mind, and never had an issue with it, because it made combat flow so much more smoothly and reduced the appearance of client-server latency. This is a classic case of be careful what you wish for. Spellcasting in particular has become a lot more difficult. With how carefully you have to manage the party's HP, your MP, and the timing of skills like Spiritsong (formerly Spiritbind), every single second counts. Also, I don't know about other healers, but I'm constantly busy and juggling three different ability bars. Between casting debuffs, healing, buffing and everything else going on... that's a lot of repeated skill use. Losing the queue not only makes combat flow less smoothly, it detracts from the fun of the game and introduces difficulty from outside the scope of the game in the form of fighting with the client to do what you want it to do.

[Tiraelina]

If they want to have a worldwide market the game needs to have at minimum a 1 skill deep queue. It's the only way to get around the latency issues for players outside of Japan. Forcing network latency into when you can *start* using your next skill has nothing to do with skill.

There's already enough issues with the cast bar and cooldowns being a lie.

[DGMart]

As a capped caster in both classes not being able to queue your spells is horrible. It's very clunky, then you get the crappy lag on top of that. It's not fluid it's not fast. Dear god bring it back please!

[Catapult]

The complaints I recall about this feature is how certain abilities overlapped with one another, which was a purely cosmetic problem. I did not mind, and never had an issue with it, because it made combat flow so much more smoothly and reduced the appearance of client-server latency. This is a classic case of be careful what you wish for. Spellcasting in particular has become a lot more difficult. With how carefully you have to manage the party's HP, your MP, and the timing of skills like Spiritsong (formerly Spiritbind), every single second counts. Also, I don't know about other healers, but I'm constantly busy and juggling three different ability bars. Between casting debuffs, healing, buffing and everything else going on... that's a lot of repeated skill use. Losing the queue not only makes combat flow less smoothly, it detracts from the fun of the game and introduces difficulty from outside the scope of the game in the form of fighting with the client to do what you want it to do.

This.

Fight the mobs, not the interface. A well built combat interface makes you forget it is there (without wanting to touch the immersion subject).

[Snuf]

I'm not happy with this change at all, it has made the action bar feel really unresponsive. I'm not sure about other people, but I never had any issues with being stuck in action chains previously, it was far more convenient. Now I find myself watching the action bar more than watching the combat, which is just terrible...

[Takinagi]

This is why SE shouldn't be listening to you people.

[Murugan]

Bring back the queue!

[Dreamer]

Everyone complained that you could,

[Citation Needed]

[Maiandra]

I remember several posts like this. People making these complaints seem to believe "Readying" an action was adding a delay, when in fact it was reducing delay by triggering the action as soon as possible.
These are the same people who spam keys expecting abilities to go off in rapid succession because that's how they pushed the button, then complain that the interface is "unresponsive."
But of course, that's how the "standard" MMO plays (barring the 1.5 sec UI cooldown).

[Dreamer]

I remember several posts like this. People making these complaints seem to believe "Readying" an action was adding a delay, when in fact it was reducing delay by triggering the action as soon as possible.
These are the same people who spam keys expecting abilities to go off in rapid succession because that's how they pushed the button, then complain that the interface is "unresponsive."
But of course, that's how the "standard" MMO plays (barring the 1.5 sec UI cooldown).

Quoted for truthiness.