[dev 1038] Ability to engage more than 1 non-leve monster?

[Magiksmurf]

If SE didn't want us to gather groups of mobs, why did they gave us the option of AOE in the 1st place????
Except for heals, aoe spells are so fail right now its more like a needle in you're feet when newbies start aoe'ing the hell out of everything mostly in behest loosing half the SP it would normally give. The system is real fail right now

[Evangela]

Still need to hear something from devs

[Elexia]

Still need to hear something from devs

You mean the answer they already gave?

[Evangela]

gave? where?

[Punxsutawney]

You still get drops from yellow named mobs, just not exp/sp. So it has nothing to do with mat farming. They implemented this tactic to prevent astral/aoe burning. But basically because the mobs have a fairly small stray zone before they return back, they implemented a system that was not needed, and basically made aoeing useless outside of a few mobs in behest and leves. Just remove aoe attacks if you are that worried about someone killing 3 mobs at a time...

[Evangela]

No, I just want to kill everything in one shot

[Greed]

at least let's us do that in behest
( for some reason in every behest I join there is someone
who can't understand english and
love to fight yellow mob >.......<)

[Physic]

gave? where?

i believe they said in the answers to battle questions, that one claim wasnt enough. Basically i think they always intended us to have aoe, they just had to solve the low amount of monster problem first

[Kiara]

You still get drops from yellow named mobs, just not exp/sp. So it has nothing to do with mat farming. They implemented this tactic to prevent astral/aoe burning. But basically because the mobs have a fairly small stray zone before they return back, they implemented a system that was not needed, and basically made aoeing useless outside of a few mobs in behest and leves. Just remove aoe attacks if you are that worried about someone killing 3 mobs at a time...

Hi Phil,

Great points.

The only thing I can think of that is a bit unfair if we had Multiple Claims via AOE are regular SP Parties. Specifically, during the ranks where you dominate an area, but still get good SP per Hour (i.e., you don't need to move on yet).

So that'd be like the late R30's for Black Efts, or late R40's for Raptors. You *can* handle multiple Raptors if you're high 40's, so if you could claim multiple Raptors during Raptor Parties (when it's busy), then you could hog multiple mobs at once, driving out other Parties competing at the same time.

But someone also mentioned in FF XI that they eventually reduced SP or Damage per Mob in AOEs so maybe there's a balance that way?

[Gath]

The AI that the mobs had in XI was awesome, they should do it with FFXIV, where mobs didn't de-aggro easily, helps with grind parties, and to make people have to be a bit sneaky to get where they want.

Take the best from XI and slap it in XIV...XIV can still be its own game with similar mechanics to a predecessor.