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BenevolentMachine

Has there been any mention of a combat system update yet?

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Hey guys. Considering coming back to FF, but the current combat system turns me off. Has Yoshi mentioned anything about updating the combat system to something more fluid and less bloated? I did some googling, but nothing turned up.

Thanks

edit Not sure how asking for combat to be a bit smoother and less bloated = totally change it. It’s kinda clunky. Surely it can be improved without a drastic overhaul.

Posted Jun 3, 2021, 11:50 PM UTC · edited

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Toviathan:war:•

Outside of tuning and refinement, the base combat system will most likely never change. I'm not sure what you would want it to become but I wouldn't except major departures from what it already is.

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DarXIVFisher :500kMog:•

They will never do a major overhaul of the combat. We will get job updates that adds to rotations, skills, or other abilities. But if you are looking for some massive trimming of the skills, FFXIV is not for you.

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Senario-:blm:•

What type of changes are you looking for? Bc a lot has changed each expansion but I'm not sure if it was what you were looking for.

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BlazeVortex4231[Cicivexa Vivivexa - Zalera] :uldah::naldthal::blm:•

The expansion is 5.5 months away, and we know nothing about combat changes, save that the numbers will be scaled down, and that belts will be removed.

They've 'updated' the combat system substantially the past few expansions. The amount of changes from SB to ShB is probably the most you can expect out of an overhaul.

That is to say, do not expect them to replace it with a different combat system altogether, which sounds like what you want.

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Kyser_•

Less bloated is something they've been doing for the past few expansions.

They've also started going the route of some skills replacing others based on certain conditions, so you don't need as many buttons on your bar.

As for overall combat system though, I would not expect monumental changes.

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BenevolentMachineOP•

Oh that’s cool. Similar to how it works in PvP?

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Kyser_•

Kinda but not really

I don't think we will ever have full combos on single buttons in PvE, but it definitely feels like they're testing the waters with the idea of comboing certain skills right now. It's not very widespread yet, but I feel like that's how they'll have to handle things moving forward.

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TheRealDestian•

I have high hopes for Endwalkers' combat revisions because, unlike with WoW, the FFXIV devs only seem to get better at design and haven't been taking any huge steps backwards (again, like WoW).

I enjoy the combat in XIV, but it could definitely be smoother and I have faith that it'll only get better in 6.0.

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BenevolentMachineOP•

I do not have high hopes, so when I heard they were going to work on combat I was hoping there was a company source on the info. Apparently there is not.

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TheRealDestian•

The expansion isn't until November and they don't release the 6.0 patch notes which contain all of the major changes until a week before expansion launch.

Ultimately we'll see what happens, but not until then.

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Artistic_Memory_8636•

I haven’t heard of anything. Also, who am I to argue with Google

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BenevolentMachineOP•

Some fat Irish guy that Bellular talks with brought it up. I figured I’d ask here since I didn’t see anything on the net outside of his comment.

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