Thread: DEV REQUEST: Reduce the GCD to 1.5 in 4.0

Originally Posted by AlexionSkylark

There is only ONE type of people I ever saw complaining about this: people who came from WoW and were pretty much used to the keyboard mashing a 1s GCD combat is, then came here and found the combat "slow and clunky".

Thing is, they LIKED to mash buttons non-stop during combat, I figured it gave them a sense they were playing an action game instead of an RPG. Well, to each it's own, but after playing (and raiding in) WoW for 8 years, I don't miss AT ALL the 1s GCD.

You people just like doing this

I mean it's not an unreasonable complaint. Most people, including myself, had this problem at the beginning. It's not really fun to hit one button and then wait for 2.5 seconds until like level 40. When you start getting positionals and more oGCD skills it comes together, but early levels are dreadfully boring. Especially DRG.

Originally Posted by AzraelX

I love FF14 , but I feel the only thing it is lacking is the much slower combat pace compared to more modern MMOs. I feel that is a missed opportunity and the slower pace combat drives potential customers away. Yoshi comments that he wants to stay modern and current to meet the industry’s demands. I believe a game wide reduction of GCD of 1.5 that applies to all players and bosses will make the game play more engaging, less clunky, fast faced, and much more modernized.

yes please

If the GCD would be decreased wouldn't it mean that content would have to be adjusted to the new pacing of the combat? If so I guess they won't do it since it would require alot of work.

Healing on a console with a 2.5 GCD would not see an improvement, it already takes a moment to cycle through the target list to cast a heal. If they wanted to speed up healing, reducing the cast times of some of the larger heals would be a start.

TP regeneration would have to be reworked along with aggro generation

Having played older games (pwi comes in mind) and being able to have assassins healing themselves while soloing nearly every content due to the insane speed when geared correctly was something I always enjoyed. But sadly as the time went by more and more games adjusting to the slower pace game style. Would I love to see SE implementing instant cast/extreme speeds etc? yes but I do understand and see that it won't work for ffxiv. I've never played wow therefore I can't say anything about the combat.

To those who think faster combat speed means button mashing, look at Diablo and other like ARPGs. There is no button mashing in ARPGs, if you button mash you are just going to die. Also there are many jobs in FF who SHOULD be attacking fast, Ninja and Rogue being two notable ones. Why would you want a slow Ninja?

Originally Posted by Chiramu

To those who think faster combat speed means button mashing, look at Diablo and other like ARPGs. There is no button mashing in ARPGs, if you button mash you are just going to die. Also there are many jobs in FF who SHOULD be attacking fast, Ninja and Rogue being two notable ones. Why would you want a slow Ninja?

The two jobs in the game right now where it makes sense to have a faster gcd(monk and ninja) already have a faster gcd.