Is there a way to apply Goring in AoE situations? It always seemed to me that Eye, like Goring, was just a way to get you to press 4 instead of 3 (ooh, technically complex) every couple of combos as a way of differentiating the jobs.

In previous expansions, you wouldn't try to maintain Eye in AoE, and your damage would be balanced around that fact. I think the problem that they've run into here is that you'd potentially have a two step combo that gives you Eye against multiple targets, so you may find some creative individuals using it for a faster ramp up in single target as well. Some solutions are either to create a three step combo in AoE for Eye, or just ignore it like in previous expansions and remove the possibility of sustaining it, with AoE damage being adjusted accordingly.