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Holy Circle - Same as holy spirit. I will however state that two buttons that do the exact same thing but ones single target and the others aoe is dumb. SE could consolidate them into one cast on target aoe and nothing would be lost gameplay wise. Only one button saved.
PLD doesn't need two more damage skills.
I see comments like this a lot, but it would actually be a considerable downgrade in that we'd lose the ability to control what we're attacking. I guess part of the reasoning is that such an event isn't so common that the ability to control your targeting is needed all the time, but I have two problems with that. First, if we take away uncommon and niche occurrences, we're left with an even more bland and predictable game and secondly I think a lot of FF14's woes have come from small cuts. We've had many small changes over a large time span that by themselves don't effect the game on a large scale, but when taken together all add up to a massive shift in the wrong direction. The game could function with all nearly all attacks being AoE, but it would be yet another symptom of unnecessary and uninteresting simplification that would likely only get worse with time.