Auto-attack

[ChiefCurrahee]

Enough with this communication thing, what about Wow and Aion? There's Auto-Attack, but it's useless, you still have to spam skills, the rate at wich someone presses a button is even faster then in FF14, but I've never heared anyone complaining that you can communicate.

You wanna say something during a battle? just stop for a few seconds, no1 will kill you for that...

In those games the mechanics for battle are different.

Skills in those games use ONE type of governing system to execute skills. you have Mana/Stamina/Action

Most of your skills are available from the beginning of the fight, you can use your generic light attack and use up just a small portion of one of your governing pools or start with the generic large attack using a large portion of your governing pool.
Those governing pools start at 100% at the start of a fight and RECHARGE ON THIER OWN. The rate of regen is based on stats and gear.

But in FFXIV you use 3 governing systems for skills. MP/Stamina/TP
Your basic attacks use Stamina
your abilities use MP/Stamina
your skills can use all 3!

the only way to recharge your TP to use those skills is to press a button to attack.
Yes lancer gets and ability that regens TP but that skill isn't interchangeable.
The only way to regen MP during battle is to be main mage and use your MP recover skills, or use your TP skills to return MP from dmg dealt. But then you need to have TP available in the first place to use it!

Having Auto Attack = regening governance pools from other MMOs

so lets break it down.
Wow Type games:
Skills use one of the following to execute skills: Mana Stamina Action
most skills are available from the beginning of a fight.
Mana Stamina Action regens w/o player input
you start with 100% in each pool.

FFXIV
skills can use up to 3 governance pools to execute skills: MP Stamina TP
Only Stamina regens on it's own
you start a fight with 0 TP
You have to attack to gain TP
you need TP to execute other skills.

It's like I said get rid of TP in FFXIV and allow us to use any skill as long as we have sufficient stamina and you have a system where auto attack doesn't matter.
But i think people will be even more upset about that than having an AA implemented for TP gain reasons.

So another option which you all know i support is to automate your TP gaining attacks to take some of the load off the players. The battle system will have to be rebalanced in accordance.

Whats not an option is staying with what we have now, as the dev polls show. the "spamming" of skills is the 2nd biggest issue.