The length of battles, the pace of combat... and the overall feel of combat.

[Jinko]

(IMO) The combat and pace of battles is fine for regular monsters, otherwise EXP chain system will be null. Strategy and difficult battles is good for bosses, high lvl monsters, and NM. Do you want strategy for grinding on regular exp mobs @_@??? I don't agree

Thats not true at all, the length of a regular battle in 11 was much longer and you could chain in the 100's.

You assume that changing one aspect would stop them from changing another.

What they have done is just another WoW clone knock-off/wanna be

Nope, WoW and its clones have a much better battle system.

[Andrien]

Thats not true at all, the length of a regular battle in 11 was much longer and you could chain in the 100's.

You assume that changing one aspect would stop them from changing another.

I'm not sure what the majority here wants anymore. I'm not going to say you're right or wrong.. However if you want to compare with XI.. XI is mainly focused in forcing players to group together to exp. Now I don't know how long you've spent time in XI, but I know people along with myself has gone up far beyond EXP Chain 300. That is 1 kill in less than 20-30sec.

Back to XIV and the future. Grouping is not forced on us. I'm positive new group content will satisfy everyone needs. Being optimistic