Quote Originally Posted by danny52844 View Post
lol i remeber 1 spot i bastok where u time nuke the stats thats it would be hard to mp control and nuke an entire dynamis zone down and even if they did it its nothing compared to the stupidity that ff14 would be
mage nuke was one of the primary means of beating dynamis easily, until with merits and gear and months of melee DD patches it actually became worthwhile to melee the non stone mobs.

point is aoe has always been a part of ffxi, you just didnt notice it because if you werent a mage your AOE was trash, and it required you to beat on a monster for 50 seconds before you could even use it.

AOE techniques can only rule the game if the battle is built for it, and some charachers excel at aoe whereas others do not. they need to keep this in mind when they balance game content.