Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
Legend of Legaia used a similar battle system for its game, where directional inputs lead to special attacks, and the special attack itself counted as an input for another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfQl0Qr3hg

High Low High = Somersault. The Somersault triggers on the last 'High' and that still counted as input for another skill.

High Low High Low Low= High Kick, Low Kick, Somersault, Low Kick, Some other skill I forgot the name of (IIRC, the special attacks had to be different to chain this way)

Legend of Legaia utilized a system similar to old fashioned TP where it's built and spent, where as 2.0+ TP functioned more like standard MMO "Energy" systems, as well as maximum number of inputs per turn.

Current FF14 has no TP system and no 'maximum input', other than building a limitation into Monk itself.

Building it into the Chakra system would serve as a suitable limiter. Basic weaponskills build Chakra + inputs for the special ability, special ability spends chakra. Weaponskills falling into a category with a gauge representing your last 3 inputs / skill type.



So every special attack could have a 3 input string, while varying chakra costs.

So you have things like Dots, Buffs, Debuffs being lower cost chakra with big finishers being higher chakra costs. The goal is to minimize your Input strings to get the right special finisher with the appropriate chakra to use it.
I think this is similar to the Blitz concepts that I mentioned on the last page and someone proposed on the forum a while ago and in general I like it. I'd probably make it so you spend a certain amount of Chakra to enter the Blitz/Input Phase and then whatever action you trigger from that input is on a seperate cooldown (IE, Enter Blitz mode, input string, use Six Sided Star, it goes on cooldown for 90 seconds). There'd be one or two skills on a cooldown for both Single Target and AOE use (Six Sided Star/Suplex for single Target, Chi-Blast and Rising Phoenix) and then one that could get used for filler if you happen to cap on gauge without either of them.