4.4: Role Action slots increased to 10. Thoughts?

[Azper]

I'm in the minority here it seems, but I'm happy with the change. As a healer, it was a pain having to swap stuff out all the time. "Who's bringing Protect for this fight? Do I need Esuna for this one? Oh crap I forgot to swap in my Surecast. *flies off platform*"

[Aster_E]

I'm in the minority here it seems, but I'm happy with the change. As a healer, it was a pain having to swap stuff out all the time. "Who's bringing Protect for this fight? Do I need Esuna for this one? Oh crap I forgot to swap in my Surecast. *flies off platform*"

Like I stated before, having six slots instead of five would have been fine and done enough with this. Also would have been fine if Esuna (and the Sch and Ast equivalents) were cemented as part of the classes/jobs, at low levels, thus freeing up that fifth slot for healers alone. Esuna, Protect, Lucid, and Swiftcast are all used so often, and every few raids, it seems, call for Surecast so it gets bothersome (putting it kindly) to have to swap it out. That leaves out the other abilities with their situational uses, plus Break. Having a free slot is good for that.

I don't like having to swap things in or out, myself, and kinda wish for something like XIII's paradigm shift where we can swap between sets with ease, but it's by no means the worst thing. The worst thing is poor design that forces people to choose tools that should be permanent anyway, and leave out optional tools you could do with or without every so often.

[Azper]

Like I stated before, having six slots instead of five would have been fine and done enough with this. Also would have been fine if Esuna (and the Sch and Ast equivalents) were cemented as part of the classes/jobs, at low levels, thus freeing up that fifth slot for healers alone. Esuna, Protect, Lucid, and Swiftcast are all used so often, and every few raids, it seems, call for Surecast so it gets bothersome (putting it kindly) to have to swap it out. That leaves out the other abilities with their situational uses, plus Break. Having a free slot is good for that.

I don't like having to swap things in or out, myself, and kinda wish for something like XIII's paradigm shift where we can swap between sets with ease, but it's by no means the worst thing. The worst thing is poor design that forces people to choose tools that should be permanent anyway, and leave out optional tools you could do with or without every so often.

Agreed. I would have been fine with 6 slots, but I won't say no to 10 either as a temporary fix until they figure out how they're going to handle role skills moving forward. Had they not neutered WHM going into SB where we had to take back everything we inherently used to have, it wouldn't have been an issue to begin with either, but SE seems to like to needlessly overcomplicate things and make changes no one asked for in the first place.