Combat still too slow. We need a shorter Global Cooldown!

[Meimei]

I have no problem with the GCD, but I do wish they'd make animation and latency delays smoother. Skills that are off the GCD, such as instant buffs, still take time to use consecutively as you need to wait for each animation to finish before you can trigger the next skill. Compared to things like WoW and SWTOR it feels clunky and slow. :/

[Rin_Kuroi]

I have no problem with the GCD, but I do wish they'd make animation and latency delays smoother. Skills that are off the GCD, such as instant buffs, still take time to use consecutively as you need to wait for each animation to finish before you can trigger the next skill. Compared to things like WoW and SWTOR it feels clunky and slow. :/

100 times this. I thought the 2.5 recast time was my problem. Animations blocking use of skills is what's really starting to urk me.

[Seraphi]

Speed is fine. I'm glad this game isn't as twitchy as most other MMO's.

That said, please take pet commands off my global cooldown. It makes using Garuda-Egi a real pain since her knockback is frowned upon, and we're mostly forced to use "Obey" and manually control her so she doesn't make tanks upset.

Thanks.

[Ahlen]

Shorter global would probably be bad. It would expose how bad the coding/animation really is in this game. The 2.5 global actually covers for the fact that the combat isn't very responsive/smooth (At least if you've played a game with fast/responsive combat, like WoW, Tera, or GW2)

[JonFarron]

I think the combat pace is PERFECT. Any faster and I would get overwhelmed. If your GCD decreased, so would the monsters to balance it out... just think for a sec. :3

[Yukiko]

My current concern is that all the faster casting/skilluse (Gear and Fairy) is in vain because of global cooldown!

[sasakusaku]

It depends on class. As a caster...as a HEALER...it feels very slow.

I will just assume the anti-GCD decrease crowd is more than likely melee/ranged dps where their actions are all more or less instant and does not require standing in one spot for 2-3 secs per action then having to wait another 2.5 secs to cast something else....

On plus side, this game must be great for 'clickers' since you have all the time in the world to react.

[thenewzero]

I like the combat pace. I wouldn't necessarily mind a 2.0 second base GCD, but I don't feel its necessary.

I hated WoW's 1.5 second CD. I mean, it ended up being more like a 1 second GCD for a lot of specs because Haste was often very good. But it just felt so spammy and trigger happy, particularly on DPS, who were never able to ever stop constantly doing something or their DPS would plummet.

On a side note, though, I do think skillspeed / spellspeed could stand to reduce the cast time / GCD more. Maybe it's different at high level, but I feel like those stats are terrible. I could have speed on every piece of gear and only see like a .1 second drop in cast time.

[ejiboo]

as someone who's progressing through Turn 5 of Bahamut's Coil, i couldn't disagree more with the OP. the GCD is fine and combat is in a decent place right now. although i strongly prefer 1.23's combat system and abilities for some classes/jobs, what we have is working just fine.

[Zepheros]

Yep, the pace is great for all the reasons posted above. Wouldn't change it at all.