ill give my two cents on this one, I have always felt that they tried to mix oldschool tank and spank mechanics, with "true action combat" and it doesn't work. As it becomes less about positioning and knowing when to use certain skill in your chain and how many buttons can i spam till i have to move, especially as playing as a black mage. I will not mention the name of my old game but it was true action combat, I literally had to the bosses attack (actually use a dodge skill, not just walk out of the way) or eat the attack and odds are die. Now in this game they want me to dodge circles occasionally while i am forced to eat certain attacks, yes again that happened in my old game, but it was very rare, and in those instances it was up to the rest of the party to trade a debuff or other such mechanic and we could avoid it entirely. and lastly, IF I was truly skilled in my class i could literally go the entire dungeon dodging attacks and not take any damage.