4.4: Role Action slots increased to 10. Thoughts?

[Aana]

Tuesday cant come fast enough. Awareness + Raw Intuition forever. PUG scrub tank doesnt want to shirk me when I take the boss? Ill voke, Shirk him, then ultimatum and just shirk myself.

This is gonna be awesome.

Keep on hatin haters. Being salty about having more options, less clunky (swapping skills), and not auto wiping your group because you forgot to equip esuna/silence/etc is silly. Every single person is better off than they used to be. If you cant handle 2 more buttons (because lets be honest, some of those skills you will still never use), then you need to re-evaluate your setup. This game has exceptionally flexible control options. I can fit all my skills, meds, and even some number markers easily with a few spots to spare (for this role expansion) and i play on a dang controller. If a controller can fit everything and then some, you can to. Less salt, more figure out how to use the UI efficiently.

[Riardon]

And this is why the silly decision to remove our skills back in SB was one of the most bad decisions the XIV team ever took.
Bring back the skills we lost. We lost not only style but also a more interesting fight.
Not to mention the removal of those created a lore issue as those skills are still being utilized by NPCs.
Bring back the DRG's pole dancing and Phlebotomize and also Shadowskin (one of the coolest skill animations we had) and Scourge.
Stop making the game more and more stupid and adjust the skills if you think they are useless and wrong.
After all the button bloat excuse didn't work out.

[Derio]

I dont see how people are complaining about this. This is awesome and should have been this way from the start of 4.0

Skill bloat was never a problem for me, then again I play on controller so its all muscle memory.

[CorbinDallas]

I guess it s because the alarming number of healers without Esuna.

In fairness, Esuna is rarely needed to clear anything. It's only mandatory use since Stormblood released is normal mode Exdeath's single use of Doom. Every other removable debuff is just a minor inconvenience you can just power through while keeping more useful role abilities.

[WhyAmIHere]

In fairness, Esuna is rarely needed to clear anything. It's only mandatory use since Stormblood released is normal mode Exdeath's single use of Doom. Every other removable debuff is just a minor inconvenience you can just power through while keeping more useful role abilities.

unless you forget to summon selene and you're doing the SCH job quests where Esuna would be essential to clearing.

[ElazulHP]

I use a controller. It's hard enough to fit all the skills in as it is for certain classes. Also, what did indeed happen to reducing skill bloat?

[Anselmet]

Yay, I can have my class skills back that they decided to take away from whm/sch at all times. Like it should have been.

[CorbinDallas]

unless you forget to summon selene and you're doing the SCH job quests where Esuna would be essential to clearing.

What part of rarely didn't you understand. Of course there's fringe cases where it's essential, I didn't say there wasn't. I said that since Stormblood there hasn't been any content besides a single normal mode trial where it's been anything other than wasted hotbar space. I've literally had more use out of Surecast than Esuna this past year.

[Penthea]

I have a feeling that this change to role actions is in preparation for the rumoured new classes we will have later in SB and/or in 5.0.

I already have all the role actions I use on my hotbars anyway (except for Break, lul) so it won't make a difference to my ui. Might suck for joypad players though, depending on their class.

[HyoMinPark]

I have a feeling that this change to role actions is in preparation for the rumoured new classes we will have later in SB and/or in 5.0.

I already have all the role actions I use on my hotbars anyway (except for Break, lul) so it won't make a difference to my ui. Might suck for joypad players though, depending on their class.

Controllers have access to 48 buttons with just Set 1, the extended cross, and the W-cross. They’ll be fine. Not all of the cross-role actions are going to be used anyways; several are straight-up trash or too niche to care for.