Damage gap closer should vanish

[Carighan]

Yeah and so many things have no purpose. Like the AoE versions of single-target skills I mention before, now you might say "But hold on, plenty games have separate AoE skills equivalent to single skills, and they both serve a purpose", and yes, that's correct. But there's an important second part in that sentence, and they both serve a purpose. As FFXIV doesn't use mezzes as CC any more (or CC at all if we're being honest), single-target skills also automatically dealing some AoE damage and removing the separate AoE skill has no downside. It just frees up hotbar at 0 cost. Other games have mesmerize effects and hence the player has a need to have single target skills to not wake targets up even in AoE situations, sure.

[Kabooa]

Yeah and so many things have no purpose. Like the AoE versions of single-target skills I mention before, now you might say "But hold on, plenty games have separate AoE skills equivalent to single skills, and they both serve a purpose", and yes, that's correct. But there's an important second part in that sentence, and they both serve a purpose. As FFXIV doesn't use mezzes as CC any more (or CC at all if we're being honest), single-target skills also automatically dealing some AoE damage and removing the separate AoE skill has no downside. It just frees up hotbar at 0 cost. Other games have mesmerize effects and hence the player has a need to have single target skills to not wake targets up even in AoE situations, sure.

There's also the matter of there being staggered cooldowns, where sometimes your best single target line is your AoE combo because your Single finishers are on cooldown.

Likewise, sometimes the best AoE damage is the single line because the AoE finisher is on cooldown.

There shouldn't be only single and only aoe skills, there should be skills you use in both but prefer over the other when both are available.