AOE Toggle Needs to GO

[Coglin]

Sounds like buffs and cures could at least be automatic AoEs then.

BAD BAD idea.

I fail to see why thus is an issue in the first place.

All too often people pull before I get buffs off. They are instant aggro. AoE debuffs are instant aggro.........

[Shika]

All too often people pull before I get buffs off. They are instant aggro. AoE debuffs are instant aggro.........

True, but they are reworking hate algorithms.
I see all Defensive spells (Cure, Protect, Shell, Stoneskin, Shockspikes etc) being made automatically AoE and all Offensive spells (nukes, absorbs and crowd control spells) being made automatically single target only. The only exception I can think of would be Raise/Resurrect which should stay as single target.
I can live with this (although I had no problem with the AoE toggle in the first place and am slightly sad to see it taken away), but hate generation for Defensive spells for mages should pull less hate than they do at the moment. Timers on Crowd Control spells should be adjusted down for spells like Sleep especially. That's my opinion anyway.

All we can do is wait and see...