Next Expansion Please Give Us Traits Instead of Skills

[OJ191]

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.

You say this, but the only data centers are NA EU and JP.

Playing from australia, I can only get decent ping to the JP data center except the only servers with good english speaking population are nearly impossible to get on. If we got an oceanic server (not excepting a whole data center here, just a server) I would transfer in a heartbeat.

[Ferrasper]

Yeah, I think some of the skills should be removed because of skill bloat. I wouldn't mine one or two, but the rest should be traits.

[OmegaStrongtan]

I want more skills but less buttons to press!

Example: hit True Thrust --> your button automatically change into a Vorpal Thrust button. Hit Vorpal Thrust it automatically changes into a Full Thrust button.
Hit Full Thrust (or wait too long) and it will turn back into your True Trust Button.

It does nor really matter if you hit 123 or 111 for your TTT combo but lots of buttons would be saved.

[ErzaScarlet77]

i think gw2 did good on this
the basic 123 combo only take one slot, the icon will simply change
so DRG TTT combo is just 1-1-1 instead of 123

[Khalithar]

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I really like this idea. Cabal 2 does something similar with it's own combo buttons and it helps save a lot of button real estate.

As for the OP, I agree with the thought of traits long as they do something more interesting to change up gameplay rather than just be flat % to damage dealt. Imagine they added a trait to BLM where one cast of Fire maxed out your Astral stacks even if you were at max umbral stacks and vice versa or a trait for paladin which allowed Goring Blade to apply it's dot and do it's damage at max potency without needing to combo or a trait for drk that added some MP restore to every attack but not as much as Syphon Blade. Again, not saying any of those have to be the case but some changes like that will certainly change playstyles and spice things up.

[OJ191]

Imagine they added a trait to BLM where one cast of Fire maxed out your Astral stacks even if you were at max umbral stacks and vice versa.

Soooo how Fire 3 (and blizz 3) already works right now?

edit: hit post cap, @ below post:

Yes, fire 3 removes umbral and applies max astral, and vice versa

and once you get magick and mend 3 (3 stack cap) at max stacks you get reduced cast times on the opposite alignment spells - I believe when in umbral 3 a fire 3 cast is actually faster than hard casting fire 1.

[Khalithar]

Soooo how Fire 3 (and blizz 3) already works right now?

Ah is that how they work? I haven't leveled BLM all the way yet, I only just got Fire 2. But I was just thinking of how it was at the level I was at. But you get the point I was trying to convey.

[Duelle]

i think gw2 did good on this
the basic 123 combo only take one slot, the icon will simply change
so DRG TTT combo is just 1-1-1 instead of 123

Not gonna lie; melee DPS would greatly benefit from something like this.

[Twilite]

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

Basically everything for BLM that doesn't do damage. Including Sleep. Because heaven forbid we have CC skills.

[Cheraa]

I want more skills but less buttons to press!

Example: hit True Thrust --> your button automatically change into a Vorpal Thrust button. Hit Vorpal Thrust it automatically changes into a Full Thrust button.
Hit Full Thrust (or wait too long) and it will turn back into your True Trust Button.

It does nor really matter if you hit 123 or 111 for your TTT combo but lots of buttons would be saved.

THIS, ist sooo much needed.
Please SquareEnix, do this already in the current running Expansion.