[dev 1042] Ability to toggle AoE on/off for Offensive/Defensive skills

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Originally Posted by Dubont

you don't need to do all of this....example..

Fire, z, enter. Cure3, z, enter. DONE.

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No, you're not done.

First you need to spam it 3834834843 times until the mob dies... That's pressing the keys x2 times than a melee player, and if you happen to miss one of the 3834834843 times, you mob the whole map! How awesome!

All the people here are saying, having AoE on/off saved for each skill seperatly will make the game much more comforble gamewise. This is a much faster pace than FFXI was and you SPAM magic here, sometimes you have very small time.

It's only less noticable at the moment cause the game is easy, and if you happen to mob the whole map, party just get over it.

But if SE ever make harder areas (which will happen sometime), just watch how many times parties get wiped because of these poor controls.

Having to confirm every spell is somewhat of a pain (though minor).

But TBH I think the current AoE system is somewhat broken. The primary challenge the system presents is managing enmity, but with careful timing, Softspeak, and -enmity traits, this is almost a non-issue (not to mention you can pretty much heal your entire party for very little mana). Additionally, given that party sizes have been almost halved, it just becomes bad design IMO.

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Originally Posted by Razzle

No, you're not done.

First you need to spam it 3834834843 times until the mob dies... That's pressing the keys x2 times than a melee player, and if you happen to miss one of the 3834834843 times, you mob the whole map! How awesome!

All the people here are saying, having AoE on/off saved for each skill seperatly will make the game much more comforble gamewise. This is a much faster pace than FFXI was and you SPAM magic here, sometimes you have very small time.

It's only less noticable at the moment cause the game is easy, and if you happen to mob the whole map, party just get over it.

But if SE ever make harder areas (which will happen sometime), just watch how many times parties get wiped because of these poor controls.

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I have never had a problem with AoE's causing aggro. If someone in my party happens to do this, it's as simple as Sleep, z, enter. It doesn't get much easier than this unless they give us separate spells for each spell that's an AoE form of that spell..which would not be a good idea with the current action bar. Honestly, if you can't handle pressing 1 button to toggle On or Off, this may not be the game for you.

i like the way the aoe works it makes more sense to allow one spell be single or Aoe then have them seperated. Kinda like harry potter or some other fantasy. (davja vu) Or something out of .hack. (read this mnths game informer and someone said .hack// was a stupid name for a game. Talk about silly, guess he never understood it was a joke or metaphor for the while mmorpg theme the games and anime have. Since the game/ anime the protaginest hack the system wilingly/unwillingly to find out how the game was causing issue.)

Heya!

I usually don't care about macros, but anyway =D
If I wouldn't care about macros, I'd simply press the Y button on my Rumblepad F510 (Xbox360 Controller) and switch between AoE [On/Off].

As a macro whore, I would do the following: Adding a "string type" to the variables of the /ac.

Examples:

/ac "Cure" aoe
/ac "Fire" aoe

For single-target on effect attacks:

/ac "Cure"
/ac "Fire"

I don't play Mage, as I don't like magic, but that's how I would resolve this.

See ya!