Can't we just make the battle system like FFXI's?

[Rhianu]

Seriously, FFXI's battle system was almost perfect. I don't understand why SE thought it would be a good idea to change it so drastically for FFXIV. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

FFXIV's addition of an Action Bar with icons and timers is certainly a welcome improvement over FFXI's bland, text-only Macro Pallet, but other than that FFXI's battle system was vastly superior in every other way.

I find it especially annoying how there's often a very noticeable delay between hitting the button for an ability and the ability actually executing. In FFXI, abilities would execute immediately as soon as you hit the button for them, while in FFXIV there's frequently a delay of at least a few seconds. This not only slows down the action and makes combat frustrating, but also makes it unnecessarily difficult to time your attacks or use any sort of real battle tactics and strategies, thus essentially turning almost every single battle into a mindless button mashing game, which isn't fun.

So please SE, make FFXIV's combat more like FFXI's. The combat system in FFXI was much more enjoyable.

[Xzen]

Hell no. FFXI combat is terrible, slow, boring. Give us something better.

[Demacia]

Hell no. FFXI combat is terrible, slow, boring. Give us something better.

Not at higher levels it wasn't. Way more fun than XIV's current system. Either way, I wouldn't want XIV to have XI's battle system because I'm already playing FFXI.

[Rhianu]

Hell no. FFXI combat is terrible, slow, boring. Give us something better.

Hmm, I suppose that's true in the early levels, simply because FFXI doesn't give you a whole lot of abilities until later on. But as Xzen pointed out, once you get to the higher levels and have more abilities, things really speed up. So that's certainly something to consider.

[Jinko]

No we can't

[Zahak]

We should have faster auto attack. Which is what Yoshi P said already I believe ^^ excited

[Xzen]

Had jobs at 75 when I left which was max lvl at the time. TP generation was horrid. Spent most of my time watching TV checking back to see if I had enough to WS/skill chain. I quit when they merged my server and I lost my character's name.

[DeadRiser]

Well with the new and more action oriented combat of other mmo's, I personally think it's a step back for XIV to go back to XI

[Reika]

Only similarities FFXIV is gonna have to FFXI is auto attack, and even that will be faster than FFXI.

[Physic]

never go back, that was not a perfect battle system at all