Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
I suspect that if they could give healers, and mages ranged auto attacks, would further incentivize them to remove more dots. Or at the very least, replace dots with abilities like BLM's Wreath of Fire from PVP.
Hrm this makes me think I'd prefer if the game (and it's near-absolute lack of combat depth despite the 20+ buttons on each class) were more... honest?

Like, have an actual "autoattack". A skill that automatically casts/hits if you're not doing something else. Paladins for example would have a 6-hit combo, their current 1-2-3 and then the Atonement chain. Black Mages would auto-cast Blizzard IV in ice and Fire IV in fire. Etc.

Would that be weird as hell? Of course. But in a lot of ways, that just saves our fingers from more RSI, we do that with no more brain activity than an autoattack button would. We do exactly that, basically. Might as well make it more obvious how non-interactive these fillers are, no?