AOE Toggle Needs to GO

[Rowyne]

AOE Toggle needs to be removed. Terrible terrible terrible concept.

Is this being addressed in the battle update?

SE needs to make individual AOE spells or somehow remake the AOE mechanics. The toggle is too much of a hassle to deal with, especially when aggro'd groups don't even yield SP until they turn red.

I agree. I hate the AoE toggle. I'm tired of having a giant green button pop up in my face every time I cast a spell. Having to click it with my mouse or hit my enter button is an unnecessary extra confirmation. And I'm tired of the frustration of when I accidentally do one when I wanted to do the other.

[KaiKatzchen]

As one of the supporters to remove the AoE toggle, I absolutely agree. The clunkiness and the generic design of everything being AoE yes/no contributes to a lot of lazy gameplay and a bunch of OP mages who can just AoE the crap out of everything. No strategy, no critical decision making, no challenge, just lol-AoE button mashing (if you played a caster in WoW-WotLK, you know what I'm talking about).

So are you're saying that it's makes people lazy to use the AoE on/off button and switching when needed depending on the circumstances of the fight? Yet you said your very first post:

I agree. I hate the AoE toggle. I'm tired of having a giant green button pop up in my face every time I cast a spell. Having to click it with my mouse or hit my enter button is an unnecessary extra confirmation. And I'm tired of the frustration of when I accidentally do one when I wanted to do the other.

Which is basically saying that you don't like the AoE because you feel its unnecessary to take one little extra step to hit said button? Isn't that a bit hypocritical? Its lazy if people want to use it, but its not lazy if people think it is inconvenient to take the extra step to use it?

Also there is a time to use AoE and a time to not use AoE depending on the circumstances, taking away toggle and adding in extra spells to do the same thing that toggle does will not change this. If people can't use the toggle and learn when and when not to use AoE, people will have to learn it with their spells anyway. Now people will just have to add more spells and equip said spells and make sure they are hitting the right spell etc... instead of hitting one little simple button.