Your reaction if next expansion introduces 2 new abilities and 3 traits

[Bman10119]

The problem with traits is it won't change how a job plays. And that's just not going to cut it for an expansion. It needs to be enough of achange that players will feel new. Adding skills gives new experience, but also bloat. It's a fine line.

The easiest way to solve both of these is to make a majority of the new abilities superior replacements to old ones in a rotation. still getting new things, still can have a few fully new goodies. of course then theres the problem of still needing the old low level abilities on hotbar for when you get level synched...

[Altijacek]

The problem with traits is it won't change how a job plays. And that's just not going to cut it for an expansion. It needs to be enough of achange that players will feel new. Adding skills gives new experience, but also bloat. It's a fine line.

If the traits provide a change to gameplay, then it'd be perfectly fine. Most obvious case would be something like Greased Lightning IV, or procs for other classes. Maybe Astro's can get something that allows them to use two cards at once, or some such thing. Black Mages can get Astral Fire IV, dragoons can get wheeling thrust to reset cooldown on Dragonfire Dive with a 50% chance while claw and fang resets elusive jump with 100% chance.

[Altijacek]

Maybe Bard's can make it so that straight shot procs remove cast times from next two skills, white Mages can make it so that divine seal now increases range of cure 3 or some such thing, a lot of traits can cause dramatic changes that add a fun boost to gameplay, so I think two abilities and 3 traits will help prevent too many abiltites from taking up space (imagine getting another 5) and the traits will still provide enough changes in gameplay that things remain fresh.

[CrystalRainbow]

They would need to revamp macros..

[Gilraen]

Hey, leave archers out of this! I like Straight Shot just the way it is! As for the original point...

[karateorangutang]

I'd be okay with it... if it replaced some lower level abilities. Otherwise im gonna have to find a way to put more buttons on my controller.....

[SpecialKK]

If the traits provide a change to gameplay, then it'd be perfectly fine. Most obvious case would be something like Greased Lightning IV, or procs for other classes. Maybe Astro's can get something that allows them to use two cards at once, or some such thing. Black Mages can get Astral Fire IV, dragoons can get wheeling thrust to reset cooldown on Dragonfire Dive with a 50% chance while claw and fang resets elusive jump with 100% chance.

I don't think that's enough. That means were still doing the same rotations a year and a half later. People will get bored of doing the same things with the same job.

Haging new skills replace old ones is usually how other games do it, but that's a problem with this games level sync system

[PotatoWafflez]

I don't think that's enough. That means were still doing the same rotations a year and a half later. People will get bored of doing the same things with the same job.

Haging new skills replace old ones is usually how other games do it, but that's a problem with this games level sync system

If the traits modify older less used skills into newer and more powerful ones that would probably fix most of the issues because once you get synced and lose the trait temporarily all the skills would just revert to the pre-trait version without needing to modify hotbars.

You wouldn't lose any hotbar space you'd just be "switching" the old skills for the new ones without doing anything when synced.

Only downside is you'd then have a >60 rotation and a 60< rotation with little to no cross over and nearly all the skills being replaced at some point.

[Marxam]

While I would love traits in the next expansion, I would also prefer they implement a new weapon skill to be introduced into the usual 123 rotation that offers the same potency or less potency for an added effect. For example,

Butcher's Block = 280 potency can be replaced by Deep Cut = 200 potency + Bleed (20 potency for 12 seconds)

Both deal 280 potency but offer different ways of dealing said damage. However, if they do implement traits (which I hope they do) in 4.0 Warriors need the trait "Rage" - able to hold two stacks of Infuriate.

[SpecialKK]

If the traits modify older less used skills into newer and more powerful ones that would probably fix most of the issues because once you get synced and lose the trait temporarily all the skills would just revert to the pre-trait version without needing to modify hotbars.

You wouldn't lose any hotbar space you'd just be "switching" the old skills for the new ones without doing anything when synced.

Only downside is you'd then have a >60 rotation and a 60< rotation with little to no cross over and nearly all the skills being replaced at some point.

SE really needs to figure out something, as the level sync stuffs limit some design choices moving forward