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Yeah that was cracked a few years ago.

Which is exactly why I saved every beastmen coin I found in xiv. I had stacks of them by the relic quest came out and didn't need to farm them. The drop rate on them weren't as bad as FFXI though.

To each his or her own I guess. I enjoyed them, even the ones that didn't have great drops. But then again, I had like 40 stacks of beastman seals from soloing so I was never short on them. So I'm probably not a good example of the average player in those terms. Like I said, I was a bit of a gaming hermit back in my FFXI days.

1.Awesome combat and yes it can be done in conjunction with a GCD.(Taking into account this is a tab target combat system)
-A skill/momentum modifier feature applied to each hotkey:
Single Target Dmg- Tap button= High accuracy/lower power, longer you hold button the lower accuracy/high power it becomes.
AoE Dmg- Tap button= Low Radius/high power, longer you hold button before releasing the wider the radius/lower power.
Conal Dmg- Tap Button= Small cone/high Power, longer you hold button before releasing the wider the cone/lower power.
Enspells Dmg- Tap= Short duration/high dmg, longer you hold button the longer duration/lower dmg.
Debuffs- Tap= Short duration/high potency, longer you hold button the longer duration/low potency.

You might look at this and say a charge button? It's not a charge feature where the only choice is hold for best effect or tap if you opt for normal attack dps to be your damage. There is a range of choices depending on the situation and one option is not inherently better. This can be applied to defensive skills properties too.

-Combo System
Kachi this feature actually makes combat more tactile if done right. If there was no GCD you could spam whatever granted you have tp/mp which encourages spamming smaller rotations. The combo system in conjunction with GCD, if resources were balanced right forces you to pick and choose when to spam consecutive high power fast attacks. I know they altered positional requirements on combos. But every skill should have positional awareness activate a small effect on efficiency.

-Decaying skill potency
All this does is complement the GCD and combo system. Basically the more you use any skill on an enemy. The lower potency/accuracy that skill will affect that enemy. It decays at a steady rate.

-Restore incapacitation
I cannot stress how requiring breaking something unique on an enemy adds to variety. Take into account that decaying skill potency and it forces players to maybe hesitate coming out with the big guns at stupid times if they want to be most efficient. And do not make the required incapacitations only take place at the beginning. Have them spread out and inserted at pivotal moments during the battle.

-Job/Class play style or fundamental differentiation
I don't mean carbon copy XI. But alter the fundamentals of how jobs/classes play as in XI. Samurai were the masters of tp manipulation. Up until Sekkanoki was introduced. It played drastically different from other jobs. I'm at a loss for words how to convey what I mean. I am currently playing TERA and I love the free target, but fundamentally most damage classes at the core, play almost identical in their manipulation or scheme mechanics.

All the rest involves enemy variety and counters vs your counters. But that is up to the devs if they want to push that out hard.

I did not list anything besides combat because to me, combat is the most important thing I want done right. And they can always get ideas from the community for content we want to see. But combat main mechanics are probably going to be done this last time and barely touched upon again.

I would also like to see large epic battles like Besieged or tower assault/defense in campaign when you had a lot of people participating. Laggy as all hell but a ton of fun.

True. I was thinking more along the lines of Besieged, where you could be sitting at the Adventurer's Guild in Ul'dah when a call to defend the gates goes out and everyone has to rush out and help...unless there will be FATEs like that, in which casse awesome!

Then you'll be happy I think

Lowering the required EXP to level up, is a rather easy tweak to do, designing engaging BCNM on the other hand is rather complicated.

Why do you think not every single company is able to pump out End game encounters off the quality that blizzard does ? Because making encounters, let alone entire raids, that take into consideration every class, abilities, item combo into equation to created a balanced yet engaging encounter is not as easy as padding numbers into HP/MP (What SE is known for)

By the time they got to it, it was not even late, by that time, they where not even in the Radar. Would a lower XP curve helped ? Sure! The less time we had to spend in dunes spamming stuff mindlessly killing crabs would have been reduced Drastically! They dint need to remove the aggressive nature of mobs nor the aggro, but they could have lowered the HP of low level zones, just like they buffed the entire world in XIV.

I don't think there's much point in arguing it anymore, so I'm just going to kindly disagree and drop it.

First off the excuse of the engine is cheap... Come on! Second 3 encounters do not negate the fact that 99% of the encounters where tank & spank. Ifrit was an ok fight, nothing to be impressed with if you played wow, now is a step in the right direction which is good, but SE is an infant in making those fights, they are more known for having bosses with 45 phases, and 5 trillion HP. That was my point more or less louis XD