Auto-attack

[Bearious]

Dear Dreamer,

Every one of your "actual arguments" against AA is completely incorrect.

1. No auto-attack means you are in control of your character. You character attacks when you tell it to. Enemy charging a retaliation counter, mobs CC'd, or Reflect up on your target? Not a problem.

The implementation of AA will only give you far greater control of your character. Stun abilities will be implemented, to skillfully counter an enemies move (and this stun ability will be much easier to use since you will not be basic attack spamming). As for the argument for CC, there will be a button that is called "attack". This revolutionary feature will allow you to begin auto-attacking when you press it AND stop auto-attacking when you press it again...

2. No auto-attack means you set the pace of the battle. Should you keep yourself steady and fight a battle of finesse and attrition, or gut your stamina bar trying to take down that imp before it has a chance to cast and rock your world? It's up to you.

This is also completely incorrect. This "setting the pace of battle" you speak of, is actually only the pace at which you run out of stamina from basic attacking. In any difficult battle you are going to want to kill the monster as fast as possible. This means that your stamina will be at about 20% the entire fight as you spam your abilities as fast as possible. There is no skill in conserving your stamina when you get no benefit for doing so.

3. No auto-attack means you're involved. I'm not sure how Satohiko Matsui can claim AA doesn't make battles easier with a straight face. Plenty of posters have mentioned plainly on these same forums that they prefer to be able watch TV while battling. If not having to even pay attention to a battle isn't an indication of what AA does for a battle system, I'm not sure what is.

More involved is a misleading phrase. You will not be any more involved with the new system than you were with the old system. However, with the auto-attack you will be involved in a much more skillful way at high rank play. If you want a more thorough description of why this is true, I advise you to read my original post above.

I'd just like to make it clear that is wasn't a post of why the implementation of AA is beneficial. This was just a post to show Dreamer why his arguments against AA are incorrect. As I have already stated, if you would like to see my full post of why AA is actually beneficial please look above.

PS - I do hope you attempt to argue against me Dreamer