Quote Originally Posted by Quor View Post
On the one hand that's true, but on the other it's both such a niche situation and also an incredibly low-stakes one. You can take as much time as you want in the variant dungeon, as long as you don't take the entire instance timer, to finish things. So while what you say is technically true, it's going a bit far to treat it as justification for keeping Shoha II etc. the way they are.

Now, if there were actual meaningful stakes to it, or there was more than a single instance where being able to choose *not* to aoe was needed, then you would have a point. I'd like to see that kind of decision-making occur with more frequency, but the sad truth is that this won't happen outside of optional side content such as the variant dungeons. I highly doubt we'll ever see a situation, even in top-end ultimate/savage stuff, where choosing to ST instead of aoe will demanded in certain situations in order to achieve victory. Even with the drakes you don't "lose" if you kill them out of order, you just don't unlock a special area. If we're going to see more stuff like that going forward from here, then it's almost certain that SE will avoid the fail-state approach in favor of a "branching paths to victory" one.
yeah but that's what I mean when I say 'like the Dragoon', the DRG builds up their resources to use them on One Skill (Geirskogul, Nastrond, Wyrmwind Thrust) all of which are AoE and there is no Single Target alternative to those skills in the DRGs Kit.
You want this kind of Variety? Cool! play Samurai! yet by merging the Single Target and AoE you only get different animations of those DRG Skills.. true in different AoE Shapes but that's all you do, you will only work towards AoE skills and that's not what a Samurai is about. Funny that you doubt that we will never see such situation where choosing Single Target and AoE will be demanded because there was Coil T7 and Alexander 4 Savage, now true Samurai didn't existed at that time (and didn't had those skills available at that lvl) but those situation do exist, in addition should we disregard variety only because it's a niche situation? honestly I blame the English Translation for the idea of merging Shoha1+2 since in English it's just Shoha II, in german and japanese it's Mumyo Shoha