Scaling of abilities to a player's level is not a step in the right direction.

[Estellios]

people keep talking about the mage combos reducing enmity. these Single player combos refer to hitting the target from different sides which may not be possible in alot of boss fights. When fighting something like ifrit were there is limited safe ground to stand on having your mages running around the map will be a bad idea.

There's other conditions besides that. The enmity bonus WS example only needed the first skill to hit, and direction didn't matter at all except for doing more damage from the front with the first WS. In fact you don't need to position at all for combos, but the individual WS examples had great bonuses for doing so.