The problem with "Instant OFF GCD" abilities makes combat feel less rewarding.

[Malitias]

Each step of an animation in a combo takes longer. My guess: it's obviously on purpose.
Do the first two steps instead of three when you know the boss is about to use an ability you wanna interrupt.
More dmg/aggro= less reaction time, less dmg/aggro = more reaction time

QQ about not enough dmg/aggro if you use just 2 steps of the combo? Figure it out with your team when they need to deal less dmg so you can "wait" to interrupt.

Instant abilities = one can be used after global cooldown abilities
it's a new mechanic
deal with it

[BlackShroudMercs]

Each step of an animation in a combo takes longer. My guess: it's obviously on purpose.
Do the first two steps instead of three when you know the boss is about to use an ability you wanna interrupt.
More dmg/aggro= less reaction time, less dmg/aggro = more reaction time

QQ about not enough dmg/aggro if you use just 2 steps of the combo? Figure it out with your team when they need to deal less dmg so you can "wait" to interrupt.

Instant abilities = one can be used after global cooldown abilities
it's a new mechanic
deal with it

Its not instant if it doesn't work the second I press it.

Deal with that...

[SolviteSekai]

Wants game to survive...

Posts videos and trys to make people quit.

Nice logic there.

[Malitias]

Its not instant if it doesn't work the second I press it.

Deal with that...

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...79#post1348179

[Shan]

Just want to re-quote one of my favorite posts from another thread regarding this whole delay/GCD issue. The last part of his post really HITS home.

Couldn't agree more
There were many times that the Hallowed Ground didn't came out,& i got killed.

SE please:
1.remove this GCD, make the instant skills instant
2.or make the skill icon grey when it's unusable (just like other GCD skill)

The other main issue is the AOE red zone lag.
Trust me SE, if you don't fix these issues, some players will quit.

(I am not trolling & I've sub it for 180 days,but these issues are just annoying)

[complexxL9]

Wants game to survive...

Posts videos and trys to make people quit.

Nice logic there.

Are you proposing to keeping it in secret and hoping that SE somehow decides that this needs fixing?
The greater number of people are aware of it, the better chances are that SE actually pulls this issue from the bottom of priority list, and addresses it in some way.

[Sebastien]

Based on the way the game was designed, and also taking into account the current level of difficulty, the development team has no plans to change the timing in which non-global cool down actions can be used, and would like players to take this into consideration when forming strategies.

It's really not about difficulty. You can adjust the cooldowns on off GCD abilities for that purpose. This is really about the game feeling unresponsive and inconsistent. I push a button and I simply don't know what will happen. Do I need to push it a few more times? Did it go off? Am I sure? That's not challenge nor good gameplay - it's simply bad design.

(Note this has nothing to do with the long GCD, which I like.)

[Khalette]

Hello,

Based on the way the game was designed, and also taking into account the current level of difficulty, the development team has no plans to change the timing in which non-global cool down actions can be used, and would like players to take this into consideration when forming strategies.

Good morning Camate!

Then your team needs to look into creating an ability que system if it's intended for instant casts to be this clunky.

Otherwise your game is going to turn into 1 strategy... 1 macro that will be spammed. Players that prefer not to use macros are going to be forced to. GREAT strategy design.

[Khalette]

It's really not about difficulty. You can adjust the cooldowns on off GCD abilities for that purpose. This is really about the game feeling unresponsive and inconsistent. I push a button and I simply don't know what will happen. Do I need to push it a few more times? Did it go off? Am I sure? That's not challenge nor good gameplay - it's simply bad design.

(Note this has nothing to do with the long GCD, which I like.)

Agreed with everything you say. Even if the gcd doesn't get decreased, the game is horribly clunky.

[Kantide]

Hmm. Okay. Yeah. Now I understand this complaint!

To try and formalize what I think I see here...

So as I understand this issues now: in effect, the problem people are saying is that the icons show as ready, even though they are not, because the action perform is still being animated. This means that those who are only using the visual status to know when to trigger, are in essence hitting certain actions too soon sometimes. This is especially confusing and frustrating to those who equate the cast time, with the total action time, since they believe that it should be instant, and perceive by icon availability that it is instant, when in fact while the cast is instant (and non-interuptable), the performance of the action is on a delay due to being locked to the animation, that is not reflected in the icon.

This makes sense, but isn't the problem as it is being represented in this and other threads. Given the existing behaviour, the problem isn't the instant cast not being instant per-se, but the icon availability (and potentially verbiage some people are confused by), so perhaps this discussion should instead be redirected towards polite suggestions of visual cues and changes the developers could implement to account for the animation lock so that the status of icons can be clearer for these cases.

Of course the developers may still say no, but it seems that suggesting practical improvements to the icons may be a better use of time, than arguing or complaining about differing opinions on that which developers have already said they will not change. This would technically be considered an enhancement as opposed to a bug, so this venting is unlikely to do much good and is in fact likely to feed back into existing frustration with this behaviour, and that will just make the game less fun for those dealing with it.

Anyway! Hope everyone can take a moment to calm down on this (and other) issues. This is a game, and letting yourself get frustrated over it isn't much fun. Better to try and think of alternative ways to improve the game for you that the developers might be willing to consider, and in the meantime, learn to work within the existing environment as best you can.

Just my opinion.

Yes, the ability should be greyed out for .5 seconds. This might be something the devs might consider as even though all ability have the 2.5s GCD the Off-GCD abilities might need a .5s GCD. It's for the same reason that if you make a crafting macro you have to use /wait 3 between actions. Again, the game isn't WoW so you cant spam an attack button over and over as fast as you can. They give you time to think about what you're doing.

I reiterate, if the combat isn't for you then it's not for you.