Next Expansion Please Give Us Traits Instead of Skills

I was just reading a thread about how their were too many skills in this game. I don't really agree with this but I was sad that we didn't get any traits in Heavensward. I think adding traits next time instead of skills would be a good way to mix things up. You can totally change rotations and make things more interesting with just a few traits.

Please no more skills for drgs

I'm ran out of shift key binds


Or just update the visuals/effects of current ones :)

I want more skills, i love new animations and more actions

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Originally Posted by AzraelX

I want more skills, i love new animations and more actions

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You must not play most classes.

Dragoon has entirely too many and my Paladin has like 5 buttons that do essentially the exact same thing.

More abilities for the sake of abilities is bad.

I imagine something will happen going into 4.0. Classes/jobs will get redesigns or we may get upgrades to existing skills during the 4.0 job quests. I don't see them adding more skills to the lists. They're already bloated enough as is.

I'm all for this. I am also for what WoW does, and they just add ranks/tiers to the skills we have instead of just adding more skills. Either way, I like the idea of having more traits. Preferably something other than +5 to a single stat.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

You must not play most classes.

Dragoon has entirely too many and my Paladin has like 5 buttons that do essentially the exact same thing.

More abilities for the sake of abilities is bad.

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This is what good action rpgs don't have to contend with as much.
Less actions with more control over the few actions there are versus more actions with less control over the many actions there are.

Combat is ebbing to the side God Of War when it should be ebbing to the side of dynamic control per skill.

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Originally Posted by Purrfectstorm

I was just reading a thread about how their were too many skills in this game. I don't really agree with this

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My WHM, with pvp skills, has 4 full hotbars.

Now I could reclaim some space by removing pvp skills, but the point is, there's a ton of skills.

Now I'm actually pretty OK with what WHM has. A lot of neat tools, different stuff for different situations. I feel like I have a good amount of options for how I want to heal a given amount of damage. But I don't want more buttons. Right now is fine, more would be unmanageable for me.

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Originally Posted by Sandpark

Combat is ebbing to the side God Of War when it should be ebbing to the side of dynamic control per skill.

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That could be difficult to do without latency issues cropping up (see: mudras, etc).

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

That could be difficult to do without latency issues cropping up (see: mudras, etc).

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The latency should not be an issue. This mmo is one of the premiere mmos on the market now not some mmo struggling to get on it's feet. I play other online games and shooters with much more dynamic control and suffer little to no lag. And that is in open world and 64 man instances.

I think 4.0 they may have to consider removing useless and or skills that don't see much use or merging skills together.