get RID of the extra buttons to press when engaging please

[Reinheart]

I see keyboard still sucks. Its not bad with gamepad. Btw I think you can still start a fight and set up auto attack by using an ability on a mob? Such as full thrust or something. Not sure if it worked but I think I did it that way.

yep that works but with recast timers on the moves not best to start off with it + wouldn't work if fighting multiple mobs and stuff...

I got a weird one dunno if others got this too, when doing leve's and fighting mob groups and say there was a non-active/non-leve mob that just happened to be where the leve mobs were, you kill 1st leve mob and when trying to target the 2nd mob (or 3rd..etc) if you target the non-active/non-leve mob even without pressing the Enter Key to confirm sometimes it starts hitting the mob... but then again this doesn't happen on mobs you need to fight, you switch correct target but have to press Enter Key so it changes to the fight mode with that red light.

I swear I didn't push the enter key on the non-leve mob I was just pushing number 0 key to tab through the mobs... happened 2-3 times so far, so it's not happening every time but it's weird...

[Physic]

All you have to do is enter active mode (always had to do this), target the monster (always had to do this) and bring your action bar up and usable where you can cycle through abilities (always had to do this). It doesn't seem to take any more or less actions to get started than it used to for me at least.

not really, they altered it pretty early on so that pressing an attack puts you in attack mode.

you can still do it if you start off with a basic attack, but then you are wasting your long cool down skill. they should probably put back the simple attacks, and make them basically initiate auto attack mode, or just call it attack as mog says.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

It's not possible for me to use a gamepad, I already have enough crap up here with a usb mouse, tablet and other crap stuck into my laptop (yes I 'play' on a laptop) so it would really mean a lot to me if they invested some time into making this so.

It doesn't help that sometimes if I have my weapon drawn no amount of target/c/entering will engage me in attack.

[DoctorMog]

they should probably put back the simple attacks, and make them basically initiate auto attack mode, or just call it attack as mog says.

Bingo

I have a standard attack for CON THM ARC saved to the #1 spot already, so why cant I just have a button for initiating auto attack on every other class in that spot?

[Physic]

yep that works but with recast timers on the moves not best to start off with it + wouldn't work if fighting multiple mobs and stuff...

I got a weird one dunno if others got this too, when doing leve's and fighting mob groups and say there was a non-active/non-leve mob that just happened to be where the leve mobs were, you kill 1st leve mob and when trying to target the 2nd mob (or 3rd..etc) if you target the non-active/non-leve mob even without pressing the Enter Key to confirm sometimes it starts hitting the mob... but then again this doesn't happen on mobs you need to fight, you switch correct target but have to press Enter Key so it changes to the fight mode with that red light.

I swear I didn't push the enter key on the non-leve mob I was just pushing number 0 key to tab through the mobs... happened 2-3 times so far, so it's not happening every time but it's weird...

you dont need to confirm any more, if you have your bar active, and something is targeted and close enough to hit it, you will start attacking it.

an AA on off button would have been a better implemention imo.

[DoctorMog]

you dont need to confirm any more, if you have your bar active, and something is targeted and close enough to hit it, you will start attacking it.

an AA on off button would have been a better implemention imo.

For some reason, I walk up to a monster.
I hit F to pull out my weapon.
I hit C to lock on.

I still do not auto attack.

I must hit ENTER to initiate it.

[Reinheart]

you dont need to confirm any more, if you have your bar active, and something is targeted and close enough to hit it, you will start attacking it.

an AA on off button would have been a better implemention imo.

Even if you're in active mode if you don't target and confirm (press enter key) it doesn't switch the target bar red with the sword icon on the right to start the AA, I noticed this when I was fighting different mobs I had to press enter key to make sure the target bar has that red color + sword icon in order to make it AA or I just stand there like an idiot.

Confirmation is fine I have no problem doing that but problem is I'm fighting 2+ mobs at same time in same mob group and once I finish the first one I start the tabbing through mobs so I can target the 2nd+ mob right away but if there is a non-active/non-leve right next to you and you tab through them before the actual mob you want to fight, it sometimes starts AA automatically without confirming (pressing the enter key) somehow when you kill the last mob the AA still stays in fight mode (with the sword icon) and doesn't go away right away so if you target mobs too quick after kill it still continues to AA on whatever mob you target first (if mob is right by you or in attack range) At least that's my guess.

[Gramul]

Not to sound like an ass, but this is currently a PC only MMO.

That plays better with a controller. (You don't sound like an ass, it's a valid point to make.)
Along with many other PC games in this day and age. They don't go for too much and I've gotten a lot of use out of mine.
Just a suggestion.

On the point of the keyboard controls, I agree that FFXIV has implemented it poorly and it defiantly needs work on that end.

[polyhedral]

We still can't bind our arrow keys can we? I remember SE stating they would allow us too shortly after launch.

Screw a gamepad, even if it's the best way to play this game, it doesn't mean I enjoy it myself.

[Raze]

Also, if you tab target (yes I do it a lot), I'd rather not hit any sleeping mobs when I'm fighting a group and tabbing through them. AA start/stop button fixes that.