AOE Toggle Needs to GO

[Peregrine]

Every mage who doesn't suck should have very convenient alt macros.
One turns AOE on.
The other turns AOE off.
Consider them stances that the jobs have.

If you suck at the stances...don't use them.
Don't petition to take away a very good system just because you keep screwing up and fiddling around on the wrong one.

Some of us can turn it on and off at will, easily, like 2nd nature.

About the only thing they could do is that you could tap a spell once for single target and twice for AoE, but that would be prone to data failures.

[Eldaena]

Every mage who doesn't suck should have very convenient alt macros.
One turns AOE on.
The other turns AOE off.
Consider them stances that the jobs have.

If you suck at the stances...don't use them.
Don't petition to take away a very good system just because you keep screwing up and fiddling around on the wrong one.

I don't use any toggling macros, but I don't think I suck. =p I also don't think toggle is such a concern that it's making or breaking the game. It's not that difficult to use, but I find it obnoxious when I go to cast a buff and because I just logged in it's not AoE, for example.

[Peregrine]

I don't use any toggling macros, but I don't think I suck. =p I also don't think toggle is such a concern that it's making or breaking the game. It's not that difficult to use, but I find it obnoxious when I go to cast a buff and because I just logged in it's not AoE, for example.

The default single target on login is a little annoying, but it's something that by the time you've screwed up party protect and shell 10 times, you remember to always check.

[Corrderio]

are people just really running out of things to complain about?

We could always bring back the J word.

Please for the love of all that's holy nobody take that seriously.

[MarkH]

I wish they could at least change it to, if you're on a gamepad, press Circle for Single Target and Square/Triangle for AoE and if you're on a keyboard, press Enter for Single Target and Shift + Enter for AoE... or something similar..

[Joeking]

We could always bring back the J word.

Please for the love of all that's holy nobody take that seriously.

What J word?

[Steggun]

I personally would be much happier with individual AOE spells. At the very least they should add an icon that shows if AoE is toggled on or off. When you use macros to toggle AoE on or off the only indicator that anything has changed is a small line of text in the text box. This can create problems, since I often use macros to cast my spells just to avoid the extra button press to confirm/toggle AoE.

I really hope they are adding an easier way to cancel spells as well, as the current way is absolute crap. Would it really be all that bad if spells were cancelled by moving?

[Venat]

No gamepad for the toggle. i want to play the game with a controler not with a keyboard.

They need to make it quick like pressing R1 to toggle the spell from Single to Aoe Right before you hit comfirm for spell.
Mouse it be right click.

I think the action menu at the bottom of the screen needs to be 3 rows of abilitys displayed instead of 1.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

@Razzle. The claiming system is what was broken, not the AoE Toggle.

No gamepad for the toggle. i want to play the game with a controler not with a keyboard.

They need to make it quick like pressing R1 to toggle the spell from Single to Aoe Right before you hit comfirm for spell.
Mouse it be right click.

I think the action menu at the bottom of the screen needs to be 3 rows of abilitys displayed instead of 1.

They do have a toggle for AoE on/off on the controller it is the same button you use to bring up the emote list, it is what I have mapped as my "Square button" on ps2 controller.

[Zangetsu]

@Razzle. The claiming system is what was broken, not the AoE Toggle.



They do have a toggle for AoE on/off on the controller it is the same button you use to bring up the emote list, it is what I have mapped as my "Square button" on ps2 controller.

Indeed. Y on 360 controller by default. Very easy and convenient to use. It seems a lot of these game pad toggle buttons are not common knowledge like the Regime stack and start buttons. =/