What would the game be life if everythign was single target?

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A thought experiment and a hypothetical scenario. FFXIV, except from 1 to 80 there is no holy, no medica, no flare, no unleash absolutely no AoE attacks or heals that players (except maybe BLU) could use.

How would you think the game would be like in that scenario? Do you think it would discourage tanks from mass pulling due to having to establish and reestablish enmity? Would the Healers have to pick and choose who lives or dies? Would the DPS have more situational awareness with dodging AoEs and targeting mobs that they tank targets? Would the average dungeon clear take longer?

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No seriously, I get what you've done here and it's very clever.. With no AoEs in the game, it wouldn't be really practical or advantageous to mass pull, and dungeons would take a lot longer!

If I recall correctly there wasn't plans to have AoE spells when they first redesigned Ff14 but added them later in development. If you notice it wasn't until later expansions we got proper AoE toolkits.

If we didn't have AoE then instances would be designed with that in mind.

It could mean more meaningful trash encounters but i can see how that would get boring. It could also mean Sleep and such CC spells would have a used.

I find AoE mass pulls bad. If you move out of stuff then that a fair loss in dps so you dont get that feel of mass dps. Most mob packs have some kind of dodge mechanic.