Monster Combat Behaviour

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Kiting allowed players to rest during a fight that they should never have been resting in. So SE implemented a way to prevent it to a degree. It makes fights more challenging because you can't tell your paladin to run away so your white mages can rest their MP to heal him.

Don't mages just disengage now to regain MP? And it's less challenging now if anything else because mobs will lose interest in chasing you easily I thought.

Kiting was actually the most challenging aspect of XI if you asked me, doing things with 3 people that usually required 18.

In sum, the ranged attack thing or the variety of mob skills aren't enough to make this game bad, they are just things that I think need to be ironed out. Thanks guys for all your input.