Quote Originally Posted by Trystan View Post
Firstly, not all DPS-classes shine at AOE... and not all monsters are easier/faster to kill with AOE
neither of those things are true

bare minimum, every class should be putting dots on all targets before focusing on a single enemy - everyone has DoTs whose total potency dwarfs their single target abilities

ideally every class uses their AoE abilities, because every single class has them - that whm in AK should be dropping holy on trash packs, the scholar/summoner should bane their dots around, the drg should be using doomspike, the monk even has rockbreaker to throw out rather than snap punch, black mages should be using fire 2/blizzard 2, bards should be using wide volley

literally every class has AoE skills that are orders of magnitude more dps than their single target abilities, and they all have dots which again, much better than their basic single target attacks

the only only only arguement against AoE'ing things is that TP classes might run out, but assuming you're hitting more than 2 mobs with your aoe, it's still a better damage:tp ratio to use AoE attacks and run yourself dry than focusing one mob at a time - so I'll concede that a pull with only 2 targets it's not better to AoE them - although it's still better to apply DoTs to both targets