AOE Toggle Needs to GO

[Dreamer]

Tanaka's original direction is why the game is in the mess it is now. He's not a bad developer, but his decision to ignore even the basics cost this game big.



You're basically telling them to drop support for FFXIV and focus on their other more successful MMORPG.

The base Tanaka created was utterly fantastic. The problem with the game was that NOTHING was finished. The entire setup reeks of upper management telling Tanaka the game HAD to ship by a certain date rather than when the game was done.

It's rather obvious if you look in the right places. Parley is a good example - they took the trouble to create this entire little mini-game setup, but then didn't flesh it out or impement it in more than a few places. Then there are the leve quests - again, they setup this entire system....then copy pasta'd most of the leves. Or take the battle system itself - it seems to be designed to be very action oriented, yet playing with it for a few hours easily shows you than the stamina and TP usage hasn't been calibrated correctly at all.

Yes, I know Tanaka was the producer. But he still has to answer to the people who control the funding.

[Taco]

I don't like the fact that they decided to let AoE Toggle go. Most of us are already used to it and like it. Duplicating current spells just for the purpose of adding -ga versions will cause confusion and unnecessary slots being used up in my action bar. Unless they remove action costs as well, I don't think this is a wise change. It's so easy to toggle AoE anyways, just press Z!

[Vanguard319]

I'm wondering if SE has any capacity at all about telling people "no" anymore

[Vanguard319]

It's more likely that they're planning to change it so AOE spells are limited to the "Jobs" of CON and THM.

Um... they already were exclusive to con and thm.

[Vanguard319]

Sorry dude, but majority wins. I don't want level caps on the new dungeons but the majority wants that, so odds are we're going to have that in the future. AOE toggle never really bothered me, so I don't care if they take it out or leave it in, but I'm sorry that you're losing something you like.

yeah, and when the majority absolutely hates what the devs come up with and demand that it be changed, don't you DARE say you weren't given fair warning.

[Corrderio]

Um... they already were exclusive to con and thm.

I think they mean CON/THM will only have single target versions of the spells and AoEs will go to WHM/BLM

[AlexiaKidd]

Wow so they really are removing it, this could mean the class changes are even bigger than expected. If they are removing then they must be replacing with the actual AOE spells like Cura, Curaga and so on I would assume. I guess they really are rebuilding classes from the ground up which mean I want to know what class is getting what even more now as the changes could be far more wide swept than imagined.

[Ceons]

That's disappointing that they are removing the toggle. That was a unique working feature that I liked about the game

[Yumi_Hibiki]

butthurt players that are too lazy (incompetent?) to press z at the right times,
ruining your game since 2011...
/facepalm

[Joeking]

butthurt players that are too lazy (incompetent?) to press z at the right times,
ruining your game since 2011...
/facepalm

Lazy is my middle name I gave myself..
/target Yumi_Hibiki
/cast thundaja