I don't like action combat, and it could very potentially stop me from playing

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I'm not crazy after all

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And here I thought NWO was purely action, yet this is also just hybrid. Or are you talking about non-online Neverwinter?

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I just call that shit hybrid, just like Dygz likes to call BDO hack&slash To me the only true pure action game is one where there's no targeting at all. Anything else is a hybrid, same as most tab games are hybrids too because they have action skills. New World is omega hybrid too, with its shitty healing.

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Eh, to me, as long as you have any aim assist in an "action mmo" - it's hybrid. I'm just an extremist like that Same on the other side of the scale. If a "tab mmo" has action skills - it's a hybrid (imo). And the more cases of either of those things are - the more hybrid the games will be to me.

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That looks like an action camera that gives you a short target lock window to account for ping or whatever. To me that's more tab than me hitting an L2 dagger class that has passive detargeting skills on him which removes my target every other hit, so I have to retarget him constantly and that motherfucker is running real fast all over the place, while the dudes in that NWO video have over-a-second-long cast/atk animations.

Here's a "dance around a pillar" fight from L2's arena (watch at half speed for real in-game speed, cause the uploader sped it up). Constant movement, repositioning, terrain blocking, enemy movement prediction requirements and properly placed action-based blinks from the MC of the video in order to hit his enemy (4:55 timing)
https://youtu.be/dhgSuVHNo0g?t=295

Yes, the attack will hit if you've finished your cast while your enemy is in full view, but at 5:28 you can see the mage using Steal Divinity, but nothing happens because the healer went behind the pillar and cast got cancelled. Environment gameplay. Hell, there's later even an action skill use that's also misses because of terrain.

And this is gameplay of a click-to-move "tab" mmo. I expect waaaay more action and movement from a true action mmo.

Also, that fight was against a healer, whose movement is more limited than that of a dagger/ranger/fighter classes.