Quote Originally Posted by bobbygunz View Post
"TERA and GW2 will never make it in this industry because they dont have FFXIV's awesome combat system."

-FFXIV forum
Don't forget these are the same people that want just about everything else from lolTera/lolGW2/lolTOR/etc.

Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post
I hate AA with a fiery passion. I consider it two huge steps backwards in regards to building a robust combat system.

The problem was never the button mashing that people kept complaining about. The problem was the game's best DPS was achieved by spamming the basic attack for a class as fast as you possibly could. What I mean by that is button mashing was a symptom, not the actual problem itself. With the combo system we have now, a bit of tweaking would be all that is needed in order to make it a dynamic system that eclipses our current combat system in every way.

Unfortunately, the safe way for SE going forward is to stick to 'safe' conventions, and unfortunately AA is one of those. They're far, far too gunshy at this point to attempt anything truly innovative, so I'm not expecting us to ever see anything beyond the copy pasta'd combat that you find in most other MMORPGs.
Couldn't have said it better myself.

The fact of the matter is every argument made against a non-AA system has nothing at all to do with not having AA itself, it'd be like me raging against the auto-attack feature itself for being clunky when it's not auto-attack itself but the current AA system implemented that is clunky as hell.