Blood Weapon/Blood Price QoL improvement

I'm sure this has already been suggested but I didn't see any recent threads so I thought I'd throw it out into the aether again. I don't see any reason for these two abilities to be two separate buttons considering they're mutually exclusive from one another. It would make sense that if when grit was activated Blood Weapon became Blood Price and while deactivated it would return to Blood Weapon. The war change to decimate/inner beast steel cyclone/decimate made me happy and it would help button bloat a but more on DRK

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Originally Posted by Xilibrius

I'm sure this has already been suggested but I didn't see any recent threads so I thought I'd throw it out into the aether again. I don't see any reason for these two abilities to be two separate buttons considering they're mutually exclusive from one another. It would make sense that if when grit was activated Blood Weapon became Blood Price and while deactivated it would return to Blood Weapon. The war change to decimate/inner beast steel cyclone/decimate made me happy and it would help button bloat a but more on DRK

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That was supposed to be fel cleave/inner beast couldn't find an edit button

One Macro does it for me.

/ac "Blood Weapon"
/ac "Blood Price"

The only reason I see them separated is because they do not share their recast to the contrary of the WAR's WS and abilities. Nevertheless, I support this.

Only if this new Blood Skill have the same uptime as Blood Price+Blood Weapon if you change stance during it. Otherwise, no, thanks.

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Originally Posted by Jimsvaliant

One Macro does it for me.

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Yes, we can do that now :)
More free spaces !

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Originally Posted by Jimsvaliant

One Macro does it for me.

/ac "Blood Weapon"
/ac "Blood Price"

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I macroed it as well unfortunately it'll only track the cooldown of blood price or blood Weapon depending on what /micon you use.

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Only if this new Blood Skill have the same uptime as Blood Price+Blood Weapon if you change stance during it. Otherwise, no, thanks.

Yes, we can do that now :)
More free spaces !

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I don't know what you mean on this, they both have a 40 second recast time but blood Weapon ends of used and grit activates same with blood price if you activate it and deactivate grit. They don't overlap.

I think they didn't implement this because they don't share a recast timer unlike WARS skills.

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Originally Posted by Xilibrius

I don't know what you mean on this, they both have a 40 second recast time but blood Weapon ends of used and grit activates same with blood price if you activate it and deactivate grit. They don't overlap.

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But now, you can activate Blood Price under Grit, and when it wears off, you can drop your stance to activate Blood Weapon, or vice-versa.

You could do that before except you didn't have to be in grit to use blood price but you always had to be out of grit to use blood Weapon. I'm not saying put them on a shared recast timer I'm just saying they should have the tech to make it the same button.

It just needs to be removed off of Grit, allow it to be used regardless of stance again, and lock just the blood effect to Grit.

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Originally Posted by Xilibrius

I'm not saying put them on a shared recast timer I'm just saying they should have the tech to make it the same button.

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If you make one button, it will obviously have one recast timer and one duration. Those should allow the same maximum uptime as Blood Price + Blood Weapon if you manage them correctly with Grit.

for 5.0 I guess :P
same with impact for RDM can replace jolt 2 once casted till it remains then revert back to jolt 2.

there are so many skills like these I some times feel even weapon combos can be done other than finishers and dots similar to PVP.

I really wish they give option for us to use PVP hotbar in PVE also.

DRG T4s can also be made into one button.

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Originally Posted by Xilibrius

You could do that before except you didn't have to be in grit to use blood price but you always had to be out of grit to use blood Weapon. I'm not saying put them on a shared recast timer I'm just saying they should have the tech to make it the same button.

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I was going to say that you really don't want them to be on a shared recast timer, but then I saw this. I like the suggestion to make it the same button, and it does make sense, but you'd probably need a better way to keep track of the separate cooldowns.

Honestly this seems like a waste of dev time to me. The skills fit fine on the bars.

They share different recast times. This way you can use BW out of grit, and when it falls off go in to grit and use blood price and soon after that falls off BW will be avialbale again. if they were the same button as you suggest, the way the game is coded? it would not work that way and thus would in turn nerf the job unintentionally.