New Battle System Ideas

[Silent]

I know that SE is working on a new battle system as we speak, and by the looks of it they are really putting a lot of time, and effort into it. I hope it turns out to be a good - fast paced battle system. The one we have right now, is kinda slow, in responsive, and just not fun to use, and the animations are not as flashy as other FF series. (I think the Battle Animations should be flashy, thus making them catchy and fun to see)

For Example back when I started playing FFXI, I got to level 20 on a Red Mage and walked outside Windurst to a Summoner summoning all his pets, and using their abilities on the weak mobs in the area, the animations were catchy to me, and I instantly fell in love with the class. I quickly leveled my RDM to 30, unlocked Summoner and ended up being one of the top of my server within no time, and the class was awesome to me.

So this thread may be pretty long, but the main point of it was to see what others thought would be good for the new battle system that's currently being worked on.

New Battle System Ideas:
Increased Battle Pace
Flashy Animations (Spells, and Abilities)
Very Responsive
Fun to Use
Make Battle Regimen's have Flashy Animations along with better effects
And that's just to name a few...

What do you think would be some good ideas for the new battle system?

[Zhinse]

A good idea would be to post this in the battle sub-forum as well.

I personally think the battles should be slower. Its the opposite of what everyone thinks it should be, but I feel that if they could make every action I do, make or break the chances of victory, then I'm more for that. And I believe that is easier to do with a slower paced battle system.

[aikawananase]

cool thread.

[Vaymathias]

I think the pace is fine, anything faster and it'll become more of a twitch fest. The rest of your suggestions I agree with, and to add one...

Battle Formations

Pulling the game away from the ZERG fest that all MMOs seem to be becoming now-a-days would at least make it stick out from the crowd.

[Vice]

I know that SE is working on a new battle system as we speak

You do?

The battle section of the systems and content PDF says:

Enemy claiming system done away with, and new system released that gives loot rights to first attacking
party only.
Above system and new battle algorithms in-game as of patch 1.19. Future algorithm balancing to continue
for version 2.0.
Balance and release of crowd control system with firm control of status timers (e.g., sleep, paralysis, blind)
after stabilization of battle algorithms.
Two PvP venues, Coliseum and Frontlines, to be released after version 2.0. Unique zones to be created so
as not to affect non-participating players. Release of PvP-specific abilities, gear, and ranking.
Support for multi-party alliances for large-scale content to be released together with the above.

It doesn't say anything regarding a fundamental revamping of the battle system. Was this stated elsewhere? Thanks.

[MariyaShidou]

You do?

The battle section of the systems and content PDF says:
It doesn't say anything regarding a fundamental revamping of the battle system. Was this stated elsewhere? Thanks.

Did you read the first post date?

[Vice]

Did you read the first post date?

No, that'd make me smart =/

[Mitsuhide]

Does this include also the Design of the Primals and other bosses too?
Because as it is now, the whole Design of Dungeons and Primals prefer speedruns and pure Zerg.
Ranged Classes have the advantage in almost every Content and i think even with the Paladin Buff, people will still prefer the War simply because of faster kill. (except Paladins buffed attacks will be at least decent enough which i doubt)

Every boss got an AoE which hurts extremely, maybe they should do some anti range AoE where the Savespot is within Melee range.(which can be avoided, so Mages need to move sometimes)
And since People dislike the "stacking", why not limit the class/Jobs in some Dungeon´s and more importantly in Primal fights to 2 or 3 of each class/Jobs.(i would prefer 2)
At least i wouldnt mind, its just an idea. (maybe with that, the Garuda fix wouldnt be even needed? lol)
And maybe SE is able to build Content around this more easily, were each Job actually really is...needed.


What i also like to see in this Game is having different stances for Jobs or even Races like in FFXI were everyone held the weapons different from the other races.

The Jobs need to be more Unique in terms of Skills and less build around the skills of the class.
Example of the Gladiator...adding Dark Knight to Gladiator is with the Current system or idea simply impossible unless you want DRK to be a Tank.
At least would like to see having each Class different kinds of Job, like a "Skilltree" of some standart MMO´s.
Having more Job specific Skills would be nice, or they take some Class skills and change them to fit the role of the job...but that would make them specific anyway lol.