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

[wind]

Not bashing or anything just, I saw a lot of people say more 'chatty' and easier to setup strats but, I mean outside pug groups(which is rare when it comes to end-game content) dont most of you use vent / mumble / ts to talk 'strategy' or the likes with your ls / friends?

Voice is always going to be faster then typing just curious saying 'implement a VOIP program through FFXIV' would solve the social aspect without adding Auto-Attack.

Anyways for the players who have 2 PC's Auto-attack would make it easier :P haha, but I don't mind either way. What ever will help make the best battle system (AA included/not included) all I really care about.

Edit: Guess 'best' is a poor word choice since its more of an opinion, but most fluent, interactive, visually appealing, encouraging strategies / making players more involved and testing there SA.. stuff of that nature.

[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.

[Dreamer]

You're implying that there aren't people right now only spamming 1, or doing even less, which is the same if not worse than people mainly letting auto-attack do their jobs. This is not the first time you've been called out for it either.

Going to have to use this thing you said here:

This is the one of the more convoluted posts that I've seen on this forum, surprising given that it's so short. Are you seriously saying that we should add auto-attack so that people will do more than stand around doing nothing?? And call him out on what exactly? All he did was offer his opinion on it.

[solracht]

He said people want auto-attack because they want to be lazy, and has argued before that auto-attack will bring out the lazyness in people. I told him (and others have in other places too) that people can be lazy and bad right now if they want.

Nowhere did I imply that I wanted auto-attack, either. I'm saying what he's fearing already happens, and that the result of his worst case scenario (people doing nothing at all) is worse in the current system.

[Verecund]

Apparently auto-attack is being refered to as a sole means to an end rather than as a mechanical component of a system.



(taken from Oxford Dictionaries Online)

system(sys·tem)

noun

1 a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular. a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network

2 a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done ; an organized scheme or method

[Kaedan]

Actually, I said it encourages bad behavior and laziness. Can you prove me wrong?

[Evovenom]

To piss all the boys and the girls off wwww

[Rau]

easier to chat. easier to afk while grinding

[Kaedan]

P.S. Chatting away incessantly under the pretense of AA, when you should be doing your job, is just that.

[User201106281130]

i like this battle system and personally i dont think auto attack is needed. i only use "1" sometimes to set up skills.
what i wanna see is an attritubute to increase stamina speed, add agility as an attribute this may promote other builds fast hitters ot fast casters.