FFXIV moved away from auto-attack while WOW went without... how odd.

[Darkvalkyr]

The system they are doing for Monk in WoW fits their battle speed and pace where you start with a full bar of focus/mana and start doing attacks, and/or in the case of rage you gain it using skills or a few auto-attack swings.

It will not fit in XIV's pace where the game's mechanic lies in generating TP to do skills.

[Wolfie]

The system they are doing for Monk in WoW fits their battle speed and pace where you start with a full bar of focus/mana and start doing attacks, and/or in the case of rage you gain it using skills or a few auto-attack swings.

It will not fit in XIV's pace where the game's mechanic lies in generating TP to do skills.

WOW has classes that work in TP-like ways, like Warrior, Druid, and Death Knight.

The real reason why Monk works on WOW's system is because they have a well optimized, lag-free combat system. FFXIV's engine and combat are crawling compared to WOW's.

[Buddhsie]

Yoshi announced in one of his recent interviews, a new more involved battle system that involved the stacking of actions, I just can't remember the name of it...

[Nuru]

Yoshi announced in one of his recent interviews, a new more involved battle system that involved the stacking of actions, I just can't remember the name of it...

Its the combo system. Not much has been said about it other than what you stated.

[Buddhsie]

Either way I'm sure that it'll allow a faster combat pace than what we have now, and at the moment I rarely find myself just auto attacking for more than a second.

[Synfrag]

It's funny you say that because in WOW auto-attack hasn't been a big thing for a very, very long time. They've gone mostly to rotations which have you stare at your action bar 24/7 and that have no affect on auto attack; while auto-attacks are just something that's there and enhanced by stats. WOW hasn't been an auto-attack MMO for a very, very long time.

FFXIV is starting self combos too, which I'm guessing will be closer to rotations or maybe Aion's combo system so that's good. But I'm okay if combat isn't as fast paced as WOW, Aion or RIFT's. As long as it has a decent pace and is tactical, people will like it.

Very much in agreement. Combat should be slower and more tactical. Our enemies do not have 500,000 HP and instead add difficulty by being able to kill you in 1-2 shots if you are standing in the wrong spot. That is to this day one of the best things about the game.

[Synfrag]

The system they are doing for Monk in WoW fits their battle speed and pace where you start with a full bar of focus/mana and start doing attacks, and/or in the case of rage you gain it using skills or a few auto-attack swings.

It will not fit in XIV's pace where the game's mechanic lies in generating TP to do skills.

Actually, on the contrary, Pugilist almost doesn't use auto attacks. I spend more time using evasion skills with pummel and flurry then using a couple counters and the fight is over. The exception to this is boss fights since auto attack is our highest sustained damage or, *cough* DPS. The point being that high attack rate does work in XI without AA but it is a bit challenging to manage with the interface lag mentioned above. Thankfully that will be gone in 2.0

[Andrien]

oh man can you imagine how awesome the combo system will be like in pvp.

Brings back memories of Aion.

[Synfrag]

oh man can you imagine how awesome the combo system will be like in pvp.

Brings back memories of Aion.

The reason I bought a Razer Naga mouse. Assassin stun lock rotations ^^

[Malakhim]

Wonder how many people are gonna be complaining about spamming 1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1 over and over again in WoW now...