Quote Originally Posted by Vahzl View Post
Na im not back in ignorance mode (for that to be the case I would have had to have entered this mode in the first place). I just tire of reading thread after thread of "Wow has this, rift has that, FF should have it too". The game sucks, but uniquely sucks, and doesn't need functions from western MMo's to improve it other than mailboxes and transport.

AoE ground targetting wouldn't fit in with any Final Fantasy game I can recall (except maybe tactics). AoE's have always been strategically targetted on an NPC/Player, and also, imagine the aoe spam in cities if they were to allow this to happen. We might have self control, but the other 27 players don't.
i don't like wow but a feature like this has nothing to do with this. It's as if someone is asking for great animations or more creative spells/spellnames (instead of copy from ffxi) and people say, this game has crappy animation and its unique as it is, if you want better spell animations play another mmo... i don't get it.

It may or may not work with ffxiv but thats a different story!

SE with ffxiv so far is in my top 5 of uncreative spells, spell animations and boring fights - since there are no strategies needed. Everything that makes the system better and more varied is greatly welcome. I think its not a bad suggestion.

I just hope the devs at SE get creative anytime soon, so these posts won't be needed anymore. I highly doubt it but i hope for it. Why not give other suggestions of how to improve it instead of bashing people with suggestions with "go back to wow crap".

The game will still feel like ff if it had more options for spellcasters (it can use more options for DD/tanks as well ofc).

Lol why do you think that so many people would use this in cities for no reason? Perhaps to try it out but ... its not as the cities are flurishing and full of life atm... FFXIV so far has too many restrictions already... i didnt play wow, i tried rift though - people didnt spam spells in cities there once - but the ideas they had for casters, no matter if healers or DD casters... they did a nice job imho. Still i don't like the game i prefer FFXIV to get better and healthy. But they need to be creative - not to copy - but a mechanic like that isnt a copy to me that will hurt the game one bit.

Reinventing the wheel when its not needed, who needs that? Its better to build on a great mechanic and make it even better. And the game isnt unique in a lot of ways, it needs uniqueness badly, but in other ways. Being unique by being so bad in many ways isnt what will save the game.