Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
I feel like many people here are not getting the drastic difference
You're not understanding that in terms of balance it has to apply to Battles as well. Yoshida has been very clear about keeping the game's balance fair even if he dropped the ball on Ninja. I played since 1.0, and when he took over it's been very clear he's the:

"If I do this for x I HAVE to do this for y as well or it won't be fair."

So it's not that people don't understand (it's not a hard concept), it's the fact it would then have to be applied to the battle system which introduces a whole slew of battle balance issues. As someone said, report for harassment if its the same person multiple times. The game doesn't differentiate between you and someone else when a monster targets an area for an AoE unless it's FATEs for example (due to the special nature of them.)

Quote Originally Posted by Taliph View Post
No, the fact that AOE can be aimed by the player with aggro to impact someone else negatively would make it an exploit..
FFXI Salvage party glitch was an exploit.
Titan-Egi ignoring all damage in Primals was an exploit.

The game working as intended is not an exploit >_>