Love the PvP Hotbar Skill Button Changes, but...

Could we get that feature for PvE as well, with the one button being multiple skills that it rotates through for the main combos?

That would be great!

Signed,
Concerned Miquote with Over Bloated Skill Bar

When your PLD has 3 full rows of actions, it's a little out of hand.

For some classes it would work, but for others not so much..
It's something that worked fantastically in PvP but will probably be limited to just that.

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Originally Posted by Coatl

For some classes it would work, but for others not so much..
It's something that worked fantastically in PvP but will probably be limited to just that.

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Why? Fast Blade > Savage Blade > Rage of Halone could be 1 button instead of 3, Fast Blade > Riot Blade > Goring Blade as well. Just that would save me 4 slots. Plenty of the other melee classes are in a similar boat.

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Originally Posted by Valinis

Why? Fast Blade > Savage Blade > Rage of Halone could be 1 button instead of 3, Fast Blade > Riot Blade > Goring Blade as well. Just that would save me 4 slots

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Just remember that Royal Authority comes off of Riot Blade as well so it isn't quite that simple.

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Originally Posted by BlakLanner

Just remember that Royal Authority comes off of Riot Blade as well so it isn't quite that simple.

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Easy enough, just leave one of the finishers standalone. Better yet, make the combo customisable.

Reminds me of playing Arcane Mage in WoW.

111211121112111211121112, oh hey a proc, 3

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Originally Posted by TankHunter678

Reminds me of playing Arcane Mage in WoW.

111211121112111211121112, oh hey a proc, 3

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Beats playing finger gymnastics to reach all my combos. Also, that was how 2.0 BLM played and I loved it. Procs are a lot more fun than pre-determined combos in my opinion, but that's another topic.

The option for a 1 button combo would be nice at least, don't necessarily force everyone to use it.

PVP is somewhat of a testing ground for PVE content. For example, before Sprint was on CD in PVE, PVP had it for a good while and it didn't consume TP. I believe in a future expansion some of our 123 combos will be a single button, so new abilities can be introduced without taking up more precious hotbar space.

I said this in a similar thread a while back. I fully support this is an option, if for no other reason than controller users with their more limited button real estate.

This was discussed quite a while back but we didn't have PvP combo consolidation back then.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-see-it-in-PVE

Honestly, I agree with it, at least as an option, because a lot of combos are just button bloat. You're never going to say, use Maim before Butcher's Block. It's always going to be Skull Sunder.

Healers still need all skills seperated.

Healing is so janked in PVP since we have so few tools verses DPS/Tanks having everything super consolidated.

Though, having this as an option for PVE wouldn't bother me one bit, it just can't be a catch all to every job simce not every job has a samey 1-2-3 combo.

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Originally Posted by BlakLanner

Just remember that Royal Authority comes off of Riot Blade as well so it isn't quite that simple.

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Originally Posted by Valinis

Easy enough, just leave one of the finishers standalone. Better yet, make the combo customisable.

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No need, in PvP, PLD has two combos Fast Blade -> Savage Blade -> Rage if Halone and Fast Blade -> Riot Blade -> Royal Authority.
PLD also has two combo buttons for these, both with the Fast Blade icon by default.
Pressing any of them will make Combo 1 button become Savage Blade and Combo 2 button become Riot Blade (that is, you can press 1 -> 2 -> 2 or 2 -> 2 -> 2 for the Royal Authority combo).

Therefore, they would just have to make a third combo button Fast Blade -> Riot Blade -> Gloring Blade.

Didn't Yoshi-P mention it's not in PvE because of positionals? That it had something to do with your skills actually checking your placement as opposed to your target (not just range) as an additional check in PvE that would cause problems if they did it like in PvP? At least I can remember him mentioning something like how they could do it in PvP because they abolished positionals in there.