Suggestion: Extended Combo System

[Reldhir]

The combo system has no issues, for example, in a battle to activate a combo you have to link your motions in a fluid manner, the pugilist for example, would hit facing the enemy to dizzy, ten to the side to blind, the to the back to knockout. face->side->back, very logical. If the monster is too strong then the combo should have difficulty continuing, as the mob is resisting its effect and moving to cancel.

For a second there i thought you were talking about movement skills, like being able to dash to their left/right or maybe mages can teleport behind them haha (That could work too mind you, but i dunno how the games engine would cope with that much "action" oriented combat haha )

But yeah i get what you mean, if they streamline the requirements for pulling off the combos a little better might help to make it feel a lot more fluid, just the way im suggesting lets you figure out how to make the most efficient path yourself. Plus you get to mix it up a little bit for some little bit of individuality if thats your thing.

I have to agree, mostly while solo they're a pain sometimes and I have WSs that simply don't get used.

I'd be far more interested in seeing party strategies in combos, a lancers true thrust could open the way for the side attacks from any other job which in turn could open the way for any other jobs rear attacks, Or a gla could "fast blade" and someone could follow w/ a side/read attack.
Perhaps these could cause the same effect as in a solo combo, just more potent in some way, or maybe they cause additional effects: confusion(the mob attacks friend/foe randomly for 15secs), off-balance(lowers def/eva), ..., . Add in some resistance down effects that only activate when using a team combo and not when solo'd to give us a reason to try to coordinate our attacks instead of the current "yeah I'm in a party, but I'm really just doing my thing over here, the other party members actions mean squat to me" battle mechanics.

You lose nothing in solo play, can still pt w/o using team based strategies, but if you choose to incorporate team strategies there's added benefits; A reward for working well w/ others if you will.

Cool idea, but I think what youre after is more along the lines of maybe battle regimines? (did i spell that correctly?) SE took those out of the game and are currently working to reimplement it, dunno when though

Sorry if i misunderstood the post

[Enfarious]

Cool idea, but I think what youre after is more along the lines of maybe battle regimines? (did i spell that correctly?) SE took those out of the game and are currently working to reimplement it, dunno when though

You didn't misunderstand, and I know they took them out, I remember how well they didn't work at all during beta and release, right up to when they said "We're going to rethink battle regimens", I think all of us at the time had the impression that we'd get something equivalent back, but that was not at all the case. Instead they gave us a very useful tool for soloing, and one that works in a party but in a party it kills the idea of DDs working together. Well beyond just "hey you stand over there and I'll stand here and we can mash combo's to see who hits harder" which isn't working together in a meaningful way.

I do like the combo system and would hate to see it go away, but I'd like to see it be diversified to allow for multi-person combos, not the sublimely broken regimens where you had to stop doing everything and queue actions then wait on everyone else to queue some actions and then wait some more til someone closed it out then wait some more while your actions went off. If by some miracle noone died, your target didn't wander off, and the queue executed properly it was ... well it was sad.
Not meaning to rant about a system that's no longer present sorry.
I can't remember how many "fix battle regimens before release" threads there were during beta but it was ALOT.