[dev1022] Auto-attack system questions and discussion

[Kaedan]

But I don't like change! It frightens and confuses me!!! *


* Author's note: Screw auto-attack.

To me, this basically summarizes what I feel the pro-auto-attack crowd feels, though they'll never admit it.

Yup, agreed completely. I've stated it before... one of the reasons the pro-AA crowd are that way is because they don't know anything else and are afraid of change.

I'm for auto attack. It's one thing to be unique. It's another thing to be stubburn and add unnecessary repetitiveness to battles. 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 4. Really? Also. It's not about being able to watch TV and play at the same time. I don't really do that. But I would like to be able to chat during a battle. And you can't really do that outside of vent.(You shouldn't need a seperate program to be able to communicate in battle.) And also, you can't autotranslate or speak easily with a non english player with vent. So typing is a must.(I'm not bashing a possible in game voice chat feature, as I use vent with linkshell groups, but that's a whole different, mostly unrelated issue.)

This is a horrible, horrible argument. Let's take two of the newer and more competitive MMOs out there... Aion and Rift. In Aion, guess how you play? I'll give you an example of a rotation:

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Guess what? You are spamming those buttons just as much as you might be spamming buttons in FFXIV. Rift is the same way, only you need less buttons. Generally it's just 112112112 (combo builder, combo builder, finisher), with a few utility skills mixed in. Auto attack, in both these games IS USELESS. It serves absolutely no purpose. You are spamming buttons just as much as you are spamming buttons in FFXIV.