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

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

I wouldn't mind short and engaging. It's not the length of the fight matters, it's how you use it.

Mayhaps varied degree of enemy strengths. Weaker enemies more prone to attacking in groups or if you caught them solo, that's a short fight.

You go toe-to-toe solo with an Amal'jaa your level, that should be a more even matched fight.

And with any type of longer fight, the approproate loot rewards to go with (shards, hides, fleece, bomb ash, etc.)

[Jinko]

I voted yes, although you have to take into account that longer fights means you can't fight as many enemies at once and the XP will be much slower.

If im honest I guess I would choose FFXI's style fights over FFXIV but increase the amount of XP gained so it didn't take too long to level.

[Fensfield]

I'd love longer battles as well; right now they feel way too inconsequential.

I'd be perfectly happy if it were just a smaller lengthening of the fights with an equal scaling of experience gains but...

Quite frankly I'd be all in favour of a significant lengthening, however.. .. and a Dark Souls-esque difficulty gradient and reward rate >.>;

[SniperRifle]

I love these interesting threads that aren't about QQ/Appreciation/Quitting FFXIV, but are about asking the community what they want.

I'd love a good mix of short and long battles.

[Khal_Drogo]

I love these interesting threads that aren't about QQ/Appreciation/Quitting FFXIV, but are about asking the community what they want.

I'd love a good mix of short and long battles.

lol I think most ppl do too, Sniper....Unfortunately, threads start out nice, asking the community for feedback, and then "trolls" come in and ruin it. Let's hope that isn't going to be the case here. I'm only 3 pages into the thread, so only time will tell O.O

[Karbine]

I have wished for longer fights since the game launched. I think the fights should be more engaging rather than just stringing your actions together as fast as you can. It makes defeating monsters feel less rewarding when they go down in mere seconds with relatively no risk.

That being said I would compromise with the increased time spent killing each, there would be an increase equally in EXP per mob. I just think the battles would feel like an accomplishment rather than a zerg of abilities.

[Razen_Arghast]

No no and no. Normal mobs should die fast like that. Absolutely no reason to have grind battles becoming longer and more boring. No reason whatsoever. If you want longer battles ask them to implement quasi-NM mobs, minibosees, pack leaders or whatever. Or more quests with quest mobs different or maybe harder than the usual roaming mobs. Or mobs that need specific conditions met to efficiently kill them. Or actually ANYTHING that provides more variety in the battle system and makes grinding feel less of a chore. There are so many options. It's supposed to be fun, remember? Leave the XI mentality to die. It's an artifact/legacy game now and should be treated as such from now on. Borrow good things from it but keep it to a minimum.

[syntaxlies]

So, I'm wondering if people would like longer fights. The reason why I bring this up is, the fights are REALLY short in this game. I'm leveling up thm and the only spells I use are; Thunder, Thundara, which makes the mobs go down. There really isn't any reason for me to use the other spells/abilities or combos(can you even get combos off?). Which will bring me to my next point, longer fights will teach you how to use those other abilities. If things go wrong, you will also learn what to do in a panic situation for ifrit,moogle, and other big fights. The longer fights would have adjusted exp for em as well. So, the whole "Get less exp" argument is out of the window as well.

So, would you guys like longer fights that are more engaging?

Vote NO here!

you are the one who determines the length of the fight. if its too easy do something harder that takes longer. If its still easy dont bring a full party. if its still to easy solo it.

i was doing gc leves and the stars were too high. i was getting over 1k xp but not having enough time to finish cause the fights were taking too long.

[Rokien]

you are the one who determines the length of the fight. if its too easy do something harder that takes longer. If its still easy dont bring a full party. if its still to easy solo it.

i was doing gc leves and the stars were too high. i was getting over 1k xp but not having enough time to finish cause the fights were taking too long.

There's a problem with that, if you are solo, you can only kill soo high, and that cap is normally pretty dramatic. Then you go to a party and then you go and try and kill higher level stuff then you get links, you will instantly wipe.

[Pnight]

you are the one who determines the length of the fight. if its too easy do something harder that takes longer. If its still easy dont bring a full party. if its still to easy solo it.

i was doing gc leves and the stars were too high. i was getting over 1k xp but not having enough time to finish cause the fights were taking too long.

Clearly does not understand