[Black Mage] Please re-implement the shared action options from the Media Tour

During the media tour for black mage, certain element-exclusive spells had shared action slots (swapping based on Astral Fire/Umbral Ice). These were:

• Fire IV and Blizzard IV
• Flare and Freeze
• Despair and Umbral Soul

Which I personally thought was an amazing change, especially as a controller player that likes any form of action consolidation and since those spells are only ever available in their respective AF/UI state. However, in the live game these changes weren't implemented, which feels like a big bamboozle. Please, SE, re-implement the black mage shared spells as an option! I really need to emphasize making it an option so players can freely choose if they want to share the slots or not.

I went and rewatched some media tour videos because I couldn't believe they actually coded it, had it working and then just decided to... not?
I genuinely believed for a moment that I just made the whole thing up in my head
Could we at least get some developer commentary on this?

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Originally Posted by Taketori

I went and rewatched some media tour videos because I couldn't believe they actually coded it, had it working and then just decided to... not?
I genuinely believed for a moment that I just made the whole thing up in my head
Could we at least get some developer commentary on this?

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Yeah why would they take this away. Feels like this could be for muse and motif as well on picto) I don't really know why they are separated

I was extremely excited for this button consolidation to happen and am really upset that it hasn't. Even aside from creating room for future skills, it would genuinely be better for my hands if I could hold down modifier keys like shift or control less often.

ah ok, I wasn't crazy. Shared Action were actually present on the media tour

I was so disappointed to find that these changes were missing when the game released. As a controller player with arthritis, these consolidations would have been an accessibility boon for me.

I really hope they re-implement it at 7.05, or 7.1 at the latest, but I won't hold my breath.

Oh thank god I thought I'd dreamt them mentioning this for BLM and just blamed myself when I couldn't find the options to do it.

Same. I was really friggin' confused when the game launched.

Granted they might have to recode Umbral Soul if they did--since that shared a spot with Despair, and Umbral Soul is available waaaay earlier now.

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Originally Posted by Pyitoechito

During the media tour for black mage, certain element-exclusive spells had shared action slots (swapping based on Astral Fire/Umbral Ice). These were:

• Fire IV and Blizzard IV
• Flare and Freeze
• Despair and Umbral Soul

Which I personally thought was an amazing change, especially as a controller player that likes any form of action consolidation and since those spells are only ever available in their respective AF/UI state. However, in the live game these changes weren't implemented, which feels like a big bamboozle. Please, SE, re-implement the black mage shared spells as an option! I really need to emphasize making it an option so players can freely choose if they want to share the slots or not.

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Oh I didn't catch that!

The Fire/Blizzard placement would probably make me rethink my main BLM keybind setup and learn new muscle memory... HOWEVER, it would be for the absolute best.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Oh I didn't catch that!

The Fire/Blizzard placement would probably make me rethink my main BLM keybind setup and learn new muscle memory... HOWEVER, it would be for the absolute best.

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I mean, you can still leave your current setup, it wouldn't change anything.

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Originally Posted by Ggwppino

ah ok, I wasn't crazy. Shared Action were actually present on the media tour

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I'm not even sure it was an option. No one talked about it, it was simply shown in a handful of videos from people who mentioned the ping of connecting to japan and not being able to play classes like VPR correctly. There is a non-0 chance that it was actually mods accidentally put into a media tour video.

BLM is desperate for not only button consolidation, but a complete leveling rework at this point. With nonstandard removed, its awful state that it had throughout EW is bared for all to see, and it just needs work, but button merging would do a lot to fix some problems in the here and now.

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Originally Posted by Taranok

I'm not even sure it was an option. No one talked about it, it was simply shown in a handful of videos from people who mentioned the ping of connecting to japan and not being able to play classes like VPR correctly. There is a non-0 chance that it was actually mods accidentally put into a media tour video.

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I'm not very sure if the mods, which break at first minor in any game, were compatible with the mediatour build
I saw it here and was pleasantly impressed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNRF9F-zts&t=1887s

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Originally Posted by Ggwppino

I'm not very sure if the mods, which break at first minor in any game, were compatible with the mediatour build
I saw it here and was pleasantly impressed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNRF9F-zts&t=1887s

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See, I saw it on some vids but didn't see it on gamersescape' tooltip screen as seen here.

https://i0.wp.com/gamerescape.com/wp...gBLM.png?ssl=1

Which shows all abilities that were replacements. Which implies something had to change, and I wouldn't put it past the mediatour builds doing something weird with mods. Considering that literally no one talked about it. At least of the vids and sites I saw.

For something people showed off, no one talked about it. No one discussed it. It was talked about because people saw it happening, but its lack of detail in posts like gamersescape's writeups on the changes, seen here, strongly implies something else was happening.

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Originally Posted by Taranok

See, I saw it on some vids but didn't see it on gamersescape' tooltip screen as seen here.


Which shows all abilities that were replacements. Which implies something had to change, and I wouldn't put it past the mediatour builds doing something weird with mods. Considering that literally no one talked about it. At least of the vids and sites I saw.

For something people showed off, no one talked about it. No one discussed it. It was talked about because people saw it happening, but its lack of detail in posts like gamersescape's writeups on the changes, seen here, strongly implies something else was happening.

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Umm I think you're right. In fact, not even the video in question talks about this hypothetical share action