Would you play FFXIV if it had action combat?

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SKill.... That's EVERYTHING that should matter in a battle combat. And skill is a mix of knowledge, reaction time, perceptions, dexterity and good hand-mind coordination. In FFXIV the skill feels like it's just... Perception and MEMORY... You know how to use your class, you do the same skills all the time one after another (So called, rotations) We don't have to really addapt to anything...

I won't say names but there's a game said to be release this november in europe and america that has a really nice combat system... I have been and still always for FFXIV... But after seeing the battle action of that mmorpg... Gosh... I really wish FFXIV would be like that, so... Reactive... You can improve your skills with skill tree and give it a REAL customization of your combat, react to attacks countering, create status like grapple, knockdown, airborne... Use skills in defense of those, or that chain with those...

Our combat system right now is... Almost not reactive, really, it's just memorize. Only job I'm seeing a bit interesting to play right now after meeting with that game is DRG 60 (Because RNG positionals, you don't always memorize-do, you have to pay attention and act. )

And I'm sorry but here I have to point out, again, one of the WORST cons of FFXIV...

We... LACK of... CUSTOMIZATION...

I have thousand times expressed my worry about the fact that our skills are too rigid, too... Meh. The dev team is so worried about the balance and stuff that they can't foresee a lot of skill trees and thus, they don't even dare to try with giving us players a way to customizate our battle form...

I'd really like to have the option to choose the way we fight, to change our skills, not only to reduce a cooldown like in PvP, but, more. To choose to make a skill of area but lowering damage, to choose to reduce its cost... To chose to add an additional effect to it.. Transform an area skill into a one target but more powerful, those things... We totally lack customization, we lack it since the very moment we create our character.

PS: Stills FFXIV has a place on my heart and I still play it, especially because in PvP I can let out all my rage and kill a lot I people, no, errh... I mean, especially because I enjoy neverreap spam! It's not like I totally love to kill people at all.




Secret PS: You can laugh at my English, I know it's not good stuff, I know really that it's even worse when I try to write a long message in three minutes in a language that is not my native.