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[Asoka]

Just expressing my general mindset of battle mechanics of ffxiv, which i tend to fall asleep on in some occasions. I do think since this a new game, and it needs a new system from its previous title, but even though you have to position yourself to self skillchain, with like 7 others self skillchaining their own little fun abilities that i think is a nice little effect, i think it is still not enough. I can put my little sister on this game and let her play very well with my nostromo mouse and left-handed pad effectively. I didnt want talk about gear swaps, and and blink tanking and all that jazz, but atleast it had my attention on the game, and had me very aware. The way i see it though is that the majority favor how it is now, but i dont see how the majority favor it, even though 2.0 may give us all a saving grace with battle mechanics to satisfy both crowds.

[AmyNeudaiz]

2.0

/10characters

[HiirNoivl]

2.0 indeed.

My main issue is that Hiir Noivl can only perform one action at a time. So I do one ability but I can't queue up another, and I'm sitting there just watching her swing her axe around, slam it on the ground... pause..... get... up....

zzzzzzzz....

[bobbygunz]

It's pretty boring unless youre a tank on a boss. Everyone else is either waiting for TP (zzzzzzzzzz), running out of MP (zzzzzzz), waiting for threat to go down (zzzzzzzzzzzzz), waiting to cast after moving (zzzzzzzz), interrupting cast by accident (zzzzzzzzz), mob dies before AoE goes off so have to recast your AoE (zzzzzzzzz).

[Sephrick]

It's pretty boring unless youre a tank on a boss. Everyone else is either waiting for TP (zzzzzzzzzz), running out of MP (zzzzzzz), waiting for threat to go down (zzzzzzzzzzzzz), waiting to cast after moving (zzzzzzzz), interrupting cast by accident (zzzzzzzzz), mob dies before AoE goes off so have to recast your AoE (zzzzzzzzz).

Well, at least they kept something from XI. Right?

[Kiote]

2.0 indeed.

My main issue is that Hiir Noivl can only perform one action at a time. So I do one ability but I can't queue up another, and I'm sitting there just watching her swing her axe around, slam it on the ground... pause..... get... up....

zzzzzzzz....

Isn't action Queuing something you can activate in the Configuration menu?..

[Kiote]

It's pretty boring unless youre a tank on a boss. Everyone else is either waiting for TP (zzzzzzzzzz), running out of MP (zzzzzzz), waiting for threat to go down (zzzzzzzzzzzzz), waiting to cast after moving (zzzzzzzz), interrupting cast by accident (zzzzzzzzz), mob dies before AoE goes off so have to recast your AoE (zzzzzzzzz).

You must play with the worst Players in the world...

I have never met a single person who had to wait for TP or MP or repeatedly accidentally interrupted their casts, especially on a Boss fight.

[Kiote]

FFXIV by far has the most active and unique battle system of any MMO on the market. They actually had to tone it down because it was so fast paced people couldn't talk and play at the same time. Are you looking for a game where you can just click every skill you have and watch them go off? Sounds pretty boring to me.. Or are you that person who like to just rapidly click your mouse as fast as possible without actually paying attention to what your doing?

[bobbygunz]

Well obviously it's not a constantly recurring issue to accidentally cancel your spell, it's not like it was my main point anyways, lol.

FFXIV combat is only unique in the sense that there's animation lock, really. And also it's not at all demanding so you can have a whole conversation on the meaning of life in your linkshell while you wait around in between cooldowns, etc.

In instances, there's usually enough happening that it never seems boring, but when youre soloing, that's when it becomes especially obvious. I pity new players who will have 1 ability to use over and over.

[Rau]

What the hell did OP say?


Anyway, I'm pretty sure even mentioning gear swaps or any of the elements from XI that took a good amount of timing/patience will get blasted, just because.