Auto attack: A complete battle system

[Reika]

In what world does making your character automatically attack ADD strategy? Timing your regular attacks while deciding how to line up your other abilities is a large part of both the strategy and pacing of the battle. I'll wait and see, but my expectations for the new battle system just dropped considerably.

It doesn't add strategy.. it appeases those who came from any other MMO and cant live without auto attack.

Rank 50 gladiator and closing in on R50 thaumaturge, and I did it with out auto attack. And pugilist is quite fun without auto attack as well.

I am intrigued.

While it makes me sad to see any unique or special aspect of FFXIV removed, I can understand why they're moving in this direction. Adding auto-attack could make the battle appear as a faster fight while actually slowing it down and allowing for more tactical choices.

Really the only thing I hope is that auto-attack is implemented correctly and that they don't take the easy way out.

It saddens me as well. Next thing they will do is go back to Job/subjob because enough people don't like the current class system. Then we will no longer have crafting tools and be back to using crystals and 'imagining' what we want to create for a fail/no fail end.