AoE ON/OFF please allow player to set the differ between support-spell/attack spell!

[Payadopa]

on keyboard, AOE toggle = Z

on controller AOE toggle = emote button/battle regimen button

the more you know.

The funny thing is, you were never told that the emote button also toggles AoE on/off. I only discovered it by accident und remapped it accordingly. And while playing with a controller is way better than playing with a keyboard, I dislike it, as you can't chat as fluently. Not to mention the annoyance of scrolling back to #1 for a normal attack every few seconds (yay, auto-attack!).

And as for the keyboard. I think the button is fine, though, it could be better, like pressing #XY for like 2 seconds, to make it AoE, whatever (and cost more than single target!), but why can't I remap it? And not just that. It doesn't even show on keyboard settings. How is that not bad programming?

But that's enough negativity for now. I really appreciate SE's effort -now- to make this game better and I can't wait for the new battle system that hopefully will get rid of many of these annoyances.

[northernsky]

What I find the worst is that it remembers it's last state.

If it was always off by default it would be much harder to AoE by mistake.

Was just about to write this. Spells should not be spammed in AoE, AoE should only be used in certain situations (hence why in other games there are separate spells for single target and AoE). In these cases just hit the AoE button then it goes back to single target automatically for the next spell.

Right now I agree that there's no penalty to throwing AoE heals mindlessly but I think this needs rebalancing. There should be a trade-off for using AoE (reduced spell power or higher mp consumption) other than the risk of getting aggro.

[Shyd]

One word for you.... Macros, Solves all the problems with AOE

Problem is you cannot make a macro to turn on aoe, cast a spell, then turn off aoe, that would be effective for a healer.
Adding waits only slows you down. Honestly not good for a healer.

Hit "z" or i believe its "Triangle" on the controller to turn on / off aoe.