Your reaction if next expansion introduces 2 new abilities and 3 traits

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Originally Posted by Daralii

I'd need more keybinds.

Dragoons currently use over 30 of them at level cap. Yoshida pls show mercy. ;_;

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30? Is that total abilities or usable abilities? I use a control and i only limit myself to two hotbars (quick r1 swaps) for every class.And on drg i use all 16 and that with putting in mount/sprint.
Some things arent really needed, fient, keen flurry etc. Removing things you wont use 95% of the time helps greatly

The less abilities the better. Would much prefer traits, refining old abilities is much more needed than cluttering our hotbars with new ones.

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Originally Posted by LeeraSorlan

30? Is that total abilities or usable abilities? I use a control and i only limit myself to two hotbars (quick r1 swaps) for every class.And on drg i use all 16 and that with putting in mount/sprint.
Some things arent really needed, fient, keen flurry etc. Removing things you wont use 95% of the time helps greatly

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32 total, 23 for single target, not counting LB and potions. Doom spike, ring of thorns, defensive stuff, and sprint make up the rest.

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Originally Posted by Altijacek

Your reaction if next expansion introduces 2 new abilities and 3 traits

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i will like it more than getting useless skills that u will never use, ex: Wardens paean.

however i hope they dont use traits as way to give QOL changes that need to be baseline

As a monk, I have 3 action bars filled, and still have some abilities that I didn't even bother putting on - like haymaker, or abilties that I removed and gave alternate bindings like stances. Even then, I am using every single slot on those 3 bars and getting more abilities would be a huge pain.

Id prefer no "traits", one or two abilities. and instead add a new mechanic to customize your abilities so each player could be unique. Like how you bind materia to gear, come up with additional special materia like items that you can bind directly to abilities. reduce cooldowns, increase potency, additional time on dots/hots/buffs/debuffs, life steal, add debuffs to hits, mp/tp steal, increased range, remove an ability from the GCD but add a cd, make it so a specific ability wont break combo chains. theres all kinds of cool things. and you could instead of unlocking new abilities/traits, unlock slots that you can equip an ability materia in. so youd get your first slot at 62, an ability at 65, another slot at 68, and an ability and a slot at 70.

what I hate is having to check my action bars to see if any cooldowns came up
an entire hotbar of cooldowns and im not even 60

The problem with traits is it won't change how a job plays. And that's just not going to cut it for an expansion. It needs to be enough of achange that players will feel new. Adding skills gives new experience, but also bloat. It's a fine line.

I definitely want more traits, I think traits are awesome. At this point we have enough weaponskills/abilities to worry about anyway, it'd be better to upgrade the old ones with traits to make them more flexible and powerful.