Next Expansion Please Give Us Traits Instead of Skills

[Subucnimorning]

They can add more skills but they have to replace current skills in some fashion or you will have classes with legit 30 keys that need to be pressed regularly which is just insane...20 is close to the max I would ever want which is about what my Ninja is at.

[Dererk]

I had every thing set up so I don't have to use more than 2 cross hot bars for combat.

Now I have put limit break on the 3rd bar good thing in a tank so I rarely get to see my cool tank limit break.........(sigh).

[Fendred]

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.

Pretty much ditto on ninja.

[Bman10119]

My summoner wants more egi summon abilities! but otherwise yeah. no more abilities please. or something. I already have to use the extended cross hotbar on my summoner for buffs and revive as well as summons and then on my main bar all my dots, my ruin and ruin 2 incase i have to run, bane painflare fester and aetherflow, shadowflare tridisaster energy drain the pet abilities for when i need to tell ruda or ifrit to do something since switching to the petbar takes too much time, and dreadwyrm trance which macros me to a different hotbar with a similar setup but with ruin 3 and deathflare to swap me back since in trance and out i only have like 3 abilites that need to swap but not enough buttons to bind them to on the same hotbar

[myahele]

Yeah, thankfully some jobs have abilities that are so situational (or just useless in general) that you'll never have to use them like freeze, sleep/respose, tribind, etc. so got rid of those skills.

I am able to set up up my controller for these new skill those I'm still getting used to the setup. If they're to introduce 5 more skills/spells then it'll be difficult to do it in a controller.

New Skills/ Spells are nice, but I feel that most of these new abilities seems rather "meh" That they were added for the sake of having new abilites.

I agree that less new abilities and more traits will be nice to have. Give them out as job quests rewards in place of abilites

[CrimsonThunder]

Totally down with this. I've nearly maxed out my DRK and it pains me to put active skills on the extended bar.

The only alternative would be replacement skills that take over previous skills.

[Jonnycbad]

Or introduce new skills that replace olders, like a new True Thrust that's more damaging but still combos into vorpal for example.

[Sandpark]

They're gonna have to straight up give console players dynamic macros (skill cycling ones that follow the combos and reset if you miss kind of thing). You can run 32 active skills with the crosshotbar and extended crosshotbar and have skills like kiss of the viper or like a quick-cast/raise macro and stuff like limit break on a different crosshotbar without overly complicating things.We could all get used to swapping crosshotbars to apply cooldowns but they would need to add a way for console players to visually see when cooldowns on a different bar become available at least.

My comments on hotbar changes and the reason I want the changes:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3259546

The biggest underlying issue with Global Cooldowns is it changes combat from being dynamic and fluid to a game of watching UI and waiting. The global cooldown itself is what overly complicates things.

Why are most skills tied a global cooldown anyways? Isn't the purpose of character stat resources already settling the point trying to be applied here? The point is they don't want you being able to select certain skills at anytime you want. Well TP,HP, and MP should solve that. Sure you could spam your most powerful skills in quick succession, but if the TP/HP/MP cost are appropriately applied, this would result in you being out of resources which would cause players to manage their resources better. If your DPS falls off in this situation, due to missing a combo. No biggie if global cooldown was not in the mix.

Battles would be freed of it's chains which would inherently make the game more dynamic and fluid versus whack a mole. What is the hardest thing about managing a ton of skills besides finger dexterity and memory? Trying to remember when skills can be used or not. It overly complicates things and is complicating hotbar usage.

The only cooldown that are game breaking if not tied to a global cooldown are the abilities that augment other skills to do more potency. Changing the games overt reliance on GCD and a simple rework of hotbars would make the game a lot more dynamic.

[AlphaFox]

I do agree that new traits or added effects to the skills would be amazing. As it is I have had to resort to mapping CTRL to my side mouse to make it easier, anymore and it's gonna be a bit overkill I think.

[Sevyrr]

I think that the idea of having traits further enhanced is very well thought out, although it begs the question of what do those traits improve?
As you can see, we gain no new traits post-50, because the traits are tied to the base class actions. If the base class does not grow, then how too can the traits that effect them?
What I suppose you could do is to have these traits expand on the current trait boosts (For example: Third Wind, a pugilist trait that increases the potency of the Second Wind self-cure, could be further enhanced into a Fourth Wind which say also lowers the cooldown time of the Second Wind action).
Unfortunately I don't think this offers much room for improvement.

For that reason, I'd like to see more of, as some people have said, a merit system wherein your skills get improved based on perhaps your usage of them, or your particular performance at some mini-games that could be introduced in lore as extravagant training exercises.