Quote Originally Posted by TheRac25 View Post
so pvp, an afterthought in se mmos, is responsible for this?
Actually, Yoshi-P explained that he felt it was to balance both PvE and PvP.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post506046

I'm most excited to see that we'll now have the option to turn off sub-targeting. That extra enter-key confirmation only creates a redundancy for many keyboard/mouse players. Finally, now I can just click my target, choose my spell and it casts. <3