Longer fights <Do you want it?>

[ErBear]

So, I'm wondering if people would like longer fights. The reason why I bring this up is, the fights are REALLY short in this game. As I'm leveling up and doing dungeons, I need not to use more than one ability(maybe two) There really isn't any reason for me to use the other spells/abilities or combos(can you even get combos off?). Which will bring me to my next point, longer fights will teach you how to use those other abilities. If things go wrong, you will also learn what to do in a panic situation for ifrit,moogle, and other big fights. The longer fights would have adjusted exp for em as well. So, the whole "Get less exp" argument is out of the window as well.

So, would you guys like longer fights that are more engaging?

Also longer fights would give more chance for Ai to kick in if there was any. I just like my trash fresh and not stinky.

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Edit:
I'm not talking about boss fights being longer, I'm talking about the trash fights being longer and more engaging than it is now but the fights add more experience points. So if you have 10 mins you can go out and kill a few mobs that are engaging and fun to kill with the same amount of exp gain as to 20 mobs, or however many. So, it doesn't matter if you have little time to play, you are playing an mmo, you should be expecting to put a lot of time into it.

[setsua26]

I would like for the fights to be a little longer. Even just hutning reg mobs. I feel more of a true final fantasy fight if they are longer.

[Jynxii]

What do you determine as a long fight?
HM Ifrit takes ~10 minutes and I thought it was rather sizeable compared to some of the bosses that are downed in 3-4 minutes each.

I personally would enjoy more 'intense' fights than longer ones per se. First time I did Titan without any prior knowledge I was blown away, especially in the final phase where everything is going off. Arguably, the Titan fight probably went for ~7-8 minutes as well. A longer boss fight with intense phases? Sure, why not!

[Crica]

the game is catering to ppl who can only play for short periods at a time

if you have alot of time to play, you can fight more things while you play

[Tari-F]

the game is catering to ppl who can only play for short periods at a time

if you have alot of time to play, you can fight more things while you play

I think the idea was to offer both shorter and longer fights. If you want to fight something harder that takes longer, there's no reason not to allow it (as long as it's not required).

[Crica]

I think the idea was to offer both shorter and longer fights. If you want to fight something harder that takes longer, there's no reason not to allow it (as long as it's not required).

its not about if its required or not, its the feeling of "why pay for a game that i am not going to be able to fully play?" and ppl with shorter play periods are less likely to pay for a game that has content they are unable to play due to how long it takes to play it (IE: long fights)

[Moth]

You are only lvl 26 so you have not really experienced any long fights yet. However, even some of the fights towards the end are not as long as I would like, so I do agree. Yet I can not really confirm this because I have yet to do boss fights past Ifrit hardmode.

[Tari-F]

its not about if its required or not, its the feeling of "why pay for a game that i am not going to be able to fully play?" and ppl with shorter play periods are less likely to pay for a game that has content they are unable to play due to how long it takes to play it (IE: long fights)

That's a fair point.

I'm assuming the OP is just talking about offering some optional fights (either overworld or dungeon) that can go to, say, 15 (maybe 20?) minutes instead of 7-10 minutes? If that's the case, I don't think it's a large increase of time to spend overall.

If the battle is something that will take notably longer, say 30 minutes to an hour, then it would indeed be unreasonable to assume that all players could attempt and complete it.

[Azrael]

The fights are already long, long enough.
Lv 50 Dungeons/Hard Mode, take a fair time to finish them, considering you might wipe and gotta try over and over again, don't really need to extend them any longer, go do that before judging.

[Tari-F]

The fights are already long, long enough.
Lv 50 Dungeons/Hard Mode, take a fair time to finish them, considering you might wipe and gotta try over and over again, don't really need to extend them any longer, go do that before judging.

Indeed, I haven't had a chance to do those yet. Haven't even leveled far enough to get into the meat of the story, though I do plan to rectify that shortly.

I was merely responding to the legitimate point that Crica brought up.


That said, though, I don't believe the OP is talking about dungeon runs, but I suppose I'll just let him make his own point more clear. Don't want to put words in his mouth and all that.