Quote Originally Posted by kukurumei View Post
Gee you just well...slapped every MMO in near history...with "as little thinking as possible".

I won't say more, especially when FF11 has subscribers and FF14 doesn't. (As well with the archer not usable) Seems no one ever head of attack speed and weapon skills from your point of view.
Can we please stop comparing FF14 to any other mmo? it's clearely useless since the gameplay is totally different, ff11 in particular.

in FF11 it took ages to fill the TP bar so without an auto attack feature it would be something unplayable, in ff14 it's much faster and you have lots of TP buffing abilities, so it takes 3 hit to fill your TP bar with a normal attack, only 1 hit if you're using Multyshot as archer or Pierce as lancer on a lot of mobs, you also have Syphon TP so you can use WS as a mage without landing a single normal attack, so what's the use of an auto-attack feature?

I can understand that it could be usefull for the first 20 ranks when you don't have a full arsenal of abilities, so maybe a toggle feature could work, but it takes like a few of hours now to reach that rank and I really doubt someone would use it after that time.

IMHO the real problem is the you can reach rank 50 using just normal attacks: with a 8/15 party even if everyone are just using normal attacks a few mobs stay alive enough time to let you use a lot of skills, but that's something that can't be adressed by adding an auto attack feature.

Basically you want to do more skills, but the auto-attack still won't allow you to do that.
Maybe this can be addressed by lowering drastically the normal attacks' damage making it impossible to kill a mob using just them, so you can still fill your TP bar quickly with 1-3 hit but at that time the mob's hp bar will still be almost full and you'll have to use more skills and less normal attacks.