Auto attack: A complete battle system

[kukurumei]

Lack of auto attack gives FFXIV a more into an action-based combat system other MMO's lack. To complain about spamming means to complain about every MMO every created. In WoW and Rift you spam instant skills with only a .5-1sec global cooldown and short cooldowns like 5 or 6 seconds, In Aion you spam chain skills, so on and so forth. In sense, they are still 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 (the current for Paladin, Rogue, Death Knight, blah blah). FFXIV just has you spamming in a way you wont do any damage unless you're awake.

No I can afk ff14 just fine with macros, it doesn't take that much skill, and it surely doesn't help that it's shallow. The problem with your take is that those are PvP oriented game and FF14 is PvE oriented games.

let's face it AIs are stupid. All it would take me is, 11245112 and it's done. Macro help some of the more easier combinations and it's more or less a done deal.

The other games of WoW origin, no not all of them are 11241 but at least they are pvp oriented so that people can actually "feel" the need to hone hand eye coordinations. Thats why they can jump around dodge and move like idiots because the opponent is not an AI and have the ability to disrupt actions.

None of that exist in FF14. No AI can take the place of actually opponent that makes spam less spammy. They're AI. MMO AI no less.

And Aion...heh it's funny you mentioned the most resent let down of MMO community.

I like the current battle system, but it could use some tweaks.

Introduce a haste like spell to conjurers or a passive haste trait to any DoW/M. The stamina bar works very well with the current BR/SC system. If adding auto-attack meant removing normal attacks (eg. spirit dart, light shot, heavy strike, etc.) they would have to revamp the BR system as well since normal attacks play a big part in them.

Then we're in luck, people aren't thrilled with BR anyway.