Why do you want auto-attack? (discussion)[dev1022]

[Nuru]

Even so, that is what they would prefer themselves. lol Its not like they assume it is going to happen. :P

[DeadRiser]

I want it to make battles worthwhile and not a zergfest of enless spamming
I want battles to last more than 10 seconds.
I want there to be some kind of skill to battles, and some communication too.

[gifthorse]

Some people are flippin crazy.

"it makes it easier to talk in combat"

Um... I didn't know that the middle of combat was a good time to be socialising lol. Omg... seriously. No wonder FFXIV fails if these are the people its trying to accommodate while also trying to cater to the MMO audience at large who would laugh at all of these stupid requests. Lol. Can't talk in combat lol. LOL!

[Cendres]

I recently played Dragon Age 2, it has auto-attack on PC. I got a bug in a dungeon where the auto-attack stopped working, let's just say the amount of time I had to manually click my mouse was ridiculous and pain inducing.

Auto-attack allows you to focus on other things and strategies. If the game was more action oriented with cool specialty moves like in AoC I could understand no auto-attack but that's not how this naturally wants to flow. Either make the game MORE action oriented or add in auto-attack.

[Shelia]

Tired of clicking
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Seriously, I hate it. Life would be so much easier without be having to do that. Isn't that enough reason...?

[Alcide]

Tired of clicking
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Seriously, I hate it. Life would be so much easier without be having to do that. Isn't that enough reason...?

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[Verecund]

At this point, the main reason I want to see auto-attack is to make solo grinding past level 30 even remotely feasible :P


Also, outside of NMs, mobs are dieing in under 3-5 seconds without auto-attack... do you think adding auto-attack will honestly make a noticeable difference in a situation where everyone pressing '1' at the same time instantly kills a mob? If they add auto-attack, they can still scale up mobs in party quests and behests to compensate.

[ssppiikkeeyy]

i say they make the game like TEKKEN combat fight syle where you sit there for day unpon days press every god dam bottom on the controler just trying to make up you're own kind of combo. lol would be funny to see what people to come up with.

[Corrderio]

i say they make the game like TEKKEN combat fight syle where you sit there for day unpon days press every god dam bottom on the controler just trying to make up you're own kind of combo. lol would be funny to see what people to come up with.

It's kind of funny you bring this up. Most fighters are a typical button masher and people don't seem to complain about that, so I'm not really sure why people get their panties in a twist over doing the same thing on XIV.

[Malakhim]

It's kind of funny you bring this up. Most fighters are a typical button masher and people don't seem to complain about that, so I'm not really sure why people get their panties in a twist over doing the same thing on XIV.

Different audiences. Fighting game fans(like me) enjoy 1:1 reactions and pressing buttons.

People who strictly play RPGs... Well, they generally tend to enjoy more "sloth like" setups.