AoE Placement

[Lady]

I get the idea that these would be useful, but there's the old school part of me that doesn't like it.

Maybe I'm getting old and this fresh new idea frightens me XD

[Shougun]

I get the idea that these would be useful, but there's the old school part of me that doesn't like it.

Maybe I'm getting old and this fresh new idea frightens me XD

Lol Well some people just dont want to bother with it - which I guess if thats the majority of SE target audience.. then its a good choice not to do. I dont think SE target audience is that way, but obviously all I got is a feeling lol - I dont have magic powers... at least for this.. ^_^;

But having used aoe markers a lot I feel SE system is very archaic and less strategic.

(But like I said some people just dont want to care about it, like I suck at a lot of RTS games because I dont want to manage all the little guys - but the truth is that is a big part of the strategy and so in that audience if you didnt have that feature you'd be making a bad choice).

[Duelle]

I get the idea that these would be useful, but there's the old school part of me that doesn't like it.

Maybe I'm getting old and this fresh new idea frightens me XD

It's not really that fresh an idea. It's more an extension of target-based AoEs but with a little more control. It's also almost always used for spells with effects that have to be channeled to persist (Blizzard, Rain of Fire in WoW, Death from Above in TOR).

I like the idea, OP, but the tough part will be in finding spells that fit the bill for ground target AoEs. Only thing that comes to mind is maybe something used by Archers/Bards to shoot arrows at a specific spot. BLMs would be a toss up unless the the -ja line of spells is reimagined as ground target AoE spells while the -ga are target-based AoEs like they currently are.