Auto-attack

[Alcide]

the only way to recharge your TP to use those skills is to press a button to attack.
Yes lancer gets and ability that regens TP but that skill isn't interchangeable.
The only way to regen MP during battle is to be main mage and use your MP recover skills, or use your TP skills to return MP from dmg dealt. But then you need to have TP available in the first place to use it!

Having Auto Attack = regening governance pools from other MMOs

so lets break it down.
Wow Type games:
Skills use one of the following to execute skills: Mana Stamina Action
most skills are available from the beginning of a fight.
Mana Stamina Action regens w/o player input
you start with 100% in each pool.

FFXIV
skills can use up to 3 governance pools to execute skills: MP Stamina TP
Only Stamina regens on it's own
you start a fight with 0 TP
You have to attack to gain TP
you need TP to execute other skills.

It's like I said get rid of TP in FFXIV and allow us to use any skill as long as we have sufficient stamina and you have a system where auto attack doesn't matter.
But i think people will be even more upset about that than having an AA implemented for TP gain reasons.

So another option which you all know i support is to automate your TP gaining attacks to take some of the load off the players. The battle system will have to be rebalanced in accordance.

Whats not an option is staying with what we have now, as the dev polls show. the "spamming" of skills is the 2nd biggest issue.

Do you read what i'm writing? o.O you can use Invigorate with any class and it's still effective, plus I listed other ways to get TP that are much quicker (and definitely funnier) then AA.
Getting MP using TP isn't effective (Damnation sucks), but with Syphon MP you never run out of MP.
The Stamina Gauge is full when you start a fight, if you spam skills you run out of stamina, so actually stopping for a few seconds from attacking is giving you an advantage.
How is this system preventing you from chatting in any different way from any other MMO?

And I already proved many times that you don't have to spam in order to be efficient in a party, why are we still arguing about this? I listed all of the abilities I use and showd I never use the normal attack more then 3 times, with different classes. Isn't it enough?

You wanna talk about the poll? what about the fact that everyone that bought the game was able to do it, but only a small percentage of them got past rank 20? And now tell me a single game where at the beginning you don't use always the same attack.

You know what is an option? you guys try out what me and the others agaisnt AA are saying, I really doubt that after that you'll be wanting that feature.