What's the Best MMO Combat

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Is WoW’s combat the best out there, or would you combine aspects of other MMOs together with WoW, to create the best MMO combat for you?

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WoW has many problems, but it is still the king of combat in MMORPG’s.

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if there was a world of warcraft expansion that featured collision between enemy models and character models with real time combat akin to Diablo that would b cool. Being able to /Noclip through players doesnt make sense, but i guess collision would bring in more problems for the dev team to work around.
For me its Phantasy Star Online

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Best combat I’ve had from my MMO experience would go from worst to best

ESO

WOW
Wild star/GW2
New world preview event

Personal taste of course

And yes I hated ESOs combat
Also take WoW with a grain of salt, it’s still a really good responsive combat system it’s just gotten a little dated

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King of tab target mmorpgs.

Some people like the spammy combo based combat of games like bdo.

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Then they should play Mortal Kombat or Smash. Keep twitch based mechanics out of my MMO please.

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This is actually a tough question to answer. I think for me, it is all about what I’m playing and what game I like best. I become comfortable with how combat works in that game and it sort of becomes my “norm”. I did really love the combat system in Dark Age of Camelot.

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No one said you had to play them? Wow won’t be switching to a combat style like that.

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Visually WoW combat feels very dated. Movements are pretty static and they don’t look very “active”. Mechanically they use too many RNG procs.

I prefer the visuals of Blade & Soul, GW2, and FFXIV. The abilities actually look powerful. In WoW, take a Mage for example, your stave just sits on your back while you cast spells, in FFXIV your weapon is involved in your casts and animations. You even literally break dance as you attack with a Monk on FF

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I like BDO combat but that thing is p2w af

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Me with twitch mechanics combat:

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If anyone says ESO they are lying

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Wow has the best feeling combat for me.

ESO is ok but I dislike the animation cancelling

FF14 feels too slow

SWTOR feels clunky compared to wow

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Honestly, the wow formula works best for me personally. I’ve seen a lot of different ones and they seem ether too simple or too complex. The games that retained me the longest follow the wow formula.

That being said, there is something about Bless’ combo system I like a lot. It feels like an ARPG which is neat. It didn’t retain me for long but it was cool.

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WildStar had the best combat. When you were in battlegrounds it felt like you were also playing DDR.

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MOP era WoW was great.

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This is what kept eso and dcuo off my list. I love those mmos but good lord having to mix jumps and small strikes to stop the animations is such a pain. Especially as an aesthetic player who wants to see the animations.

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I hate the floaty feel of eso; the animation cancelling and just the fact that you spam stuff non stop forever and ever

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I love WoW’s combat. Plus most mmos follow that structure. Take SWToR for example. Pretty identical. Ones I hate are AoC and GW2.

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The weapon swapping mechanic gets to me some times too. Like its a console mmo by design so it had less buttons but managing those two bars and swapping at the right pace is such a pain.

Thank goodness most solo builds are one bar so you can actually relax a little.