Quote Originally Posted by Monkey View Post
Sorry, didn't realize we were playing a MMOFPS...

The toggle AoE is one of the few things that I believe to be innovative about this game. As mentioned before, the whole Fire (Single Target) and Fire (AoE) is unnecessary and too cumbersome. With the current game mechanic, skills cost action points in order to place them on the action bar. This is a necessary component of a game where cross class skills exist. If we were to add Spell(AoE), then mage classes would complain because they did not have enough Action point to place their skills. Then when provided enough action points by the devs, they would complain that they did not have enough abilities slot to place Spell, Spell(AoE), and other cross class skills.

You're placing the devs in a catch 22; "messed up" if they don't, "messed up" if they do. Let's not let them worry about silly things like players being too lazy to press 'z'. They have more pressing matters on their hands, like I don't know, the fact that the FATE of Final Fantasy XIV rest in their hands. I'm just saying....
All it's promoting is more bad gameplay that requires little strategy when spamming your AoE is identical to spamming your single target. You don't need to put every single element on your bars, complaining about AP cost is meaningless. I can't wait to see how mindless the raids and dungeons will be if they don't change how it works.