Alpha Video 5 - 3 sec GCD combat seems slow

[Zenaku]

Because the way most games are designed, the animation coincides with the length of the GCD. So regardless of animation, not having a gcd would allow you to chain spells and abilities. XI was a good example of that too, because there were many abilities that you could use in succession without seeing the entire animation, they were usually self-target buffs though.

Yes but not talking about FFXI am i talking about 1.0 Version where you had to wait for the animation to be done before you could even use the next ws which sucked ass for ifrit fight. But i see GCD being lower down because people crying over it that just my point anything SE make people going to dislike and they may change it and make the game a spam fest.

[Wolfie]

Global cooldown is there because there are invariably going to be skills that are instantly activated. It's to prevent exploitation via macros that can use up several skills all at once.

It's also used to pace the battle.

[Valmonte]

3 seconds is fine, and for the record you haven't seen my clicker its got 14 possible button combinations. and the first twelve are usually 1-=.

[Maxwell]

SE please lower the GCD on battle to make the combat faster and more enjoyable.

Faster doesnt automatically imply enjoyable. I personally prefer a milder pace that will be assimilated more easily by the majority and focus more on coordination and team play than developing muscle memory to stack more or the same skills in a single minute.

P.S. The guy in the video is also a clicker too, any serious guild would not allow clickers in their guild however he actually has time to hover over his next command due to long GCD.

Thats the kind of guild i'd run away from. New forms of discrimination every day

[Endigiont]

Faster doesnt automatically imply enjoyable. I personally prefer a milder pace that will be assimilated more easily by the majority and focus more on coordination and team play than developing muscle memory to stack more or the same skills in a single minute.

I had a buddy over who was a long time WoW player with me, he was amazed when I showed him the combat in FFXIV because you actually had to think and react to what the monsters were doing, and he said "Yeah that's totally different from WoW where you basically just hit any ability you have when it comes off of it's cooldown."

[Zumi]

I"Yeah that's totally different from WoW where you basically just hit any ability you have when it comes off of it's cooldown."

Anyone who does that in WoW probably does some terrible dps, because if your not following your classes optimal rotation or skill priority order, or waiting for certain abilities/trinkets to procs to use abilities you will do some really bad damage and people will be able to tell because everyone has recount.

[Klefth]

"Yeah that's totally different from WoW where you basically just hit any ability you have when it comes off of it's cooldown."

Anyone who does that in WoW probably does some terrible dps, because if your not following your classes optimal rotation or skill priority order, or waiting for certain abilities/trinkets to procs to use abilities you will do some really bad damage and people will be able to tell because everyone has recount.

This here is apparently a super pro pvp encounter or something in WoW someone posted in another thread last night. Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, but all I'm seeing is the guy trying to keep watch of his target while he spams stuff as fast as he can. You can hear the keystrokes (more like key slamming) and all.

And holy cow, that video couldn't look more hideous.

[Endigiont]

Yes whatever, I was paraphrasing.

[Dragonheart]

I agree, 3 sec. is too much. I hope that they lower it.

[Forgo]

Are you trying to get banned or something?

nope just stating the facts madam