Say No to auto-attack!

[MarkH]

I've always thought strategy involve knowing which ability to use and at what time. Having to repeatedly press a button to do a mundane and compulsory task is like having to conciously think about breathing in and out at all time, will that make life more difficult? no. Will it make life more frustrating? indeed.

Is there a point during any fight where you will have to precisely time your attack? That would be the only time where auto-attack will be detrimental to the battle system. It'll be like if the air on Earth regularly alternate between poisonous and safe, requiring us to always be concious about our breathing to avoid breathing in at the wrong time.

If this game will be like FFXI where you will have long period of attacking and some occasional period of non-attacking (like when mob is slept or mob have physical absorb), then you can simply look away from the mob. Kinda like holding your breath when you take a swim.

Having to constantly press a button for normal attack doesn't make the game any harder, or involve any more strategy, for easy mob, either watching a youtube video while letting auto-attack do your work for you, or watching a youtube video while repeatingly pressing a button on your gamepad to attack is basically the same. On harder mob, watching a youtube video and just let your character auto attack or watching a youtube video while only pressing only on the button for normal attack, both run the same risk for death. And if you're concentrating on your fight, what differences would it make? (aside from being much more convenient!)

What having to press a button every 2-3 seconds does is killing socialization while partying. After you party for hours upon hours, even with the most fun and involving battle system (something that is not yet in the game), you will get bored, talking with your party member will extend the enjoyablity for a couple more hours.

And yes the battle system work perfectly fine, you can kill monster with it, kinda like how 2 plain carrots work as a perfectly fine lunch, it'll fill you up, it's just not very interesting, nor enjoyable. Being one of the 3 things people should spend most of thier time doing in the game, especially since the other 2 (crafting and gathering) are even more mind numbingly boring, I feel that making at least one facet of the game fun should be one of their very top priority.

So auto-attack, yes, please! And new battle system, Can I have it?