Putting Weapon Skills On the Light Attack CD Timer

Ksariyu · April 2022

How this would work: Weapon skills now share a cooldown timer with Light Attacks, rather than with other abilities like class skills. So 700ms instead of 1000ms.

Potential additional options: Allow weapon skills to proc effects that require Light Attacks. Allow Empower and/or other Light Attack buffs to increase strength of weapon skills.

Thoughts? Concerns? Apathy? Let me know.

WrathOfInnos · April 2022

Concern is that it would slow down the game. Instead of 2 actions per second it would become 1.4, which is about 30% reduction in combat pace. I don't want this game to feel like FFXIV.

It would also ensure nobody ever used light attacks. Meta would simply be spamming skills every 700 ms. This would also complicate timing to recast DoTs (no integer countdowns), and punish delayed damage skills like Deep Fissure (3s skill, but if you recast at 2.8s it deals no damage).

Ksariyu · April 2022

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

Concern is that it would slow down the game. Instead of 2 actions per second it would become 1.4, which is about 30% reduction in combat pace. I don't want this game to feel like FFXIV.

It would also ensure nobody ever used light attacks. Meta would simply be spamming skills every 700 ms. This would also complicate timing to recast DoTs (no integer countdowns), and punish delayed damage skills like Deep Fissure (3s skill, but if you recast at 2.8s it deals no damage).

It wouldn't reduce actions per second. The LA cooldown is independent of the skill GCD. So rather than just LA>Skill, this would give you the option to WeaponSkill>OtherSkill. The speed would be the same though.

For LAs, there are still plenty of powerful effects to be gained from light attacking, not to mention they don't cost resources (Which you'd go through twice as fast if you used a weapon skill every weave). DoT issues are miniscule at best, and almost no Weapon Skills currently are delayed (Except maybe Reverb Bash, which is not a spam/DoT skill).