I'm sure this has been requested many times, but we're long overdue for this change. Players should always go first against enemies in PvE. Going second against mobs and especially bosses is just an unnecessary inconvenience that we shouldn't have to deal with. Unlike PvP, players aren't compensated for going second, we just have to deal with the fact that we might randomly get debuffed or lose our blades before hitting. This is especially problematic in the endgame where going second against an extremely difficult boss ends up being, at best, a huge waste of time. So, to deal with this, players simply flee and come back over and over again until they have the first turn. The player always going first would also make bosses like Bane a lot more interesting.
