~Poll~ Longer fights <Do you want it?>

[Eekiki]

Taking three minutes to kill one monster is fun?

No. We don't need longer fights (not against normal monsters, anyway). We need more structured combat. The same kind of structure and strategy we require to take down primals should be replicated (on a much much smaller scale) when it comes to fighting world mobs.

Case in point: djiggas. Used to be, we had to be very careful when fighting these, because every time they were hit with a weapon skill, they'd counter with nasty AoE poison. Too much WS spam, and you'd quickly wipe your party. They still do this, as far as I know, but it doesn't matter anymore, because we got buffed and they didn't.

[Jynx]

Taking three minutes to kill one monster is fun?

It's more fun than taking 12 seconds.

[Skies]

Actually, Eekiki, you want to look at raptors. Between tail swipes and fire breath you gotta be plenty careful about positioning and WS triggering around them. Also careful of spawns/adds because seriously, one of them spawns too close and goes unattended for a moment and BAM everyone dies D:

And I do agree with you, levelling parties should in fact require a bit more of strategy, without actually slowing down the parties.

[JackDaniels]

I voted both because forum poll voting is one of the worst ways to collect overall player opinion. Lol.

[Rukira]

I think leveling is paced just right as is.
You kill a monster based on your party and well it's able to work together, I suppose. Shitty party? Long fight!

Anywhos, as people mentioned earlier endgame is where the real time consuming fights come in.

[Rokien]

I think leveling is paced just right as is.
You kill a monster based on your party and well it's able to work together, I suppose. Shitty party? Long fight!

Anywhos, as people mentioned earlier endgame is where the real time consuming fights come in.

That leaves no room for debuff spells as other have mentioned! No point in those classes, people wouldn't even want to party with you, because you would be usless!~

[Duelle]

That leaves no room for debuff spells as other have mentioned!

False. Debuffs can still play a role in 4/8-man dungeons and 24-man raids. CC would still be needed for adds. Debuffs can be used to supplement tank and DPS performance without going to silly extremes. It's quite feasible and part of the way there with current ability design. The devs just have to ensure that potency is built-in, in a matter of speaking.

[Jocko]

False. Debuffs can still play a role in 4/8-man dungeons and 24-man raids. CC would still be needed for adds. Debuffs can be used to supplement tank and DPS performance without going to silly extremes. It's quite feasible and part of the way there with ability design. The devs just have to ensure that potency is built-in, in a matter of speaking.

I don't believe Rokien is talking about dungeons or raids, but specifically fighting standard mobs, which, let's be frank, is 90% of the game.

[Rukira]

That leaves no room for debuff spells as other have mentioned! No point in those classes, people wouldn't even want to party with you, because you would be usless!~

You're right! But, why are you leveling? To get to 50, right? That's where the current content is. SE wants you to level fast so you can play with the rest of your friends. I assume in 2.0 leveling will be close to Korean MMO tier, so you can just always wait it out. Or, you know. Level a crafting job. Plenty of time to learn your abilities there.

[Rokien]

You're right! But, why are you leveling? To get to 50, right? That's where the current content is. SE wants you to level fast so you can play with the rest of your friends. I assume in 2.0 leveling will be close to Korean MMO tier, so you can just always wait it out. Or, you know. Level a crafting job. Plenty of time to learn your abilities there.

No, to me it's a journey, a sense of progression, character growth. I don't like end game stuff, I didn't do it in FFXI, yet I played that game for 9 years.