Auto attack: A complete battle system

[ChiefCurrahee]

LOL

You know you can move your actions, don't you?

/sarcasm
oh you can?......

On my ability bar I have my first bar filled with my most commonly used attacks. On my #2 bar I have my enhancing and buff abilities on bar #3 I have my AoE attacks.

(keep in mind " > " is right button press " < " left button press in this post. )

I usually stick to my first bar Unless of course Protect wears off, or Shock Spikes or I need Speed Surge back up then It's:

Full Thrust (up) > > > Protect > Shock Spikes (down) < < < < Full Thrust > Skewer II > Feint < < Full Thrust

21 Button presses for 7 actions

Even is all these skills are in a row it looks like this:
Full thrust > Protect > Shock Spikes < < Full Thrust > > > Skewer II > Feint < < < < Full Thrust

to do 7 actions it takes 19 button presses. Thats with all the skills lined up in a row.

What would Auto Attack do in this situation?

Basic attacks (Light Thrust Heavy Thrust and Full Thrust) will become your auto attack

SO it now looks like this
(auto attack) Protect > Shock Spikes (auto attack ) > Skewer II > Feint (Auto attack)
7 button presses for a total of 7 actions.

Dealing with a mouse and K/B and pressing 1 2 3 4 5 1 is fine and dandy, but you aren't dealing with just keyboard gamers with this game. In the future You'll have PS3 users who will be complaining of this as they will use the controller as their #1 input.

Adding auto attack to create a less hectic system is the best middle ground solution for controller (PS3/ some PC) users VS K/B mouse users.

People have complained about no one chatting in FFXIV, maybe one of the side effects of auto attack will be more free time to type a few words and let auto attack take a round or two.

as far as voice chat. When was the last time you were on PSN or Xboxlive and didn't have some kid cussing up a storm or some ignorant person throwing racial slurs left and right? Or the person who has a domestic argument with a open mic? Or the person who's open mic is nothing but static? The only time I've had had any tolerable VoIP experiences was with my LS over ventrillo and even then there were times when I just wanted to turn it off. Lets not even mention those people who don't like to talk on vent and would rather type what do you do about them?