Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[HyoMinPark]

That's wrong. It's a proof of you not understanding what was written beforehand. I said exactly how a proper cycling would work, and what MomomiMomi wrote suggests this is what she has in mind.

Apparently I was ignored back then for the sake of arguing with her, or it was not understood. So I'll write it up all nice and dandy, using samurai as the example.

How am I “ignoring” your comment? I didn’t even see it because this conversation was evolving too fast. I came in to talk about Momodi’s comment about controllers not having enough space, and it evolved to this. Calm down, please.



This still doesn’t address other jobs such as BRD, which I previously outlined prior. It’s PvP rotation is nothing like PvE, and unless they allow for customization of things like song orders (and where I can use my oGCDs like Bloodletter and Barrage), it messes with having to alternate songs, because there are situations where you do deviate from the standard rotation.

You say that it's not worth it...but current role actions are result of Square Enix trying to "save space" on hotbars. And so is the removal of skills like Stoneskin, Scourge, that Dragoons skill where they swing on their lance and so on. That's two or three skills saved from being erased with next expansion to make place for new skills.

Skills like Ring of Thorns and Phlebotimze (and most of the DoTs previous jobs had) were removed to simplify jobs and make them easier. Not because of button bloat. Some of the skills they placed in the role actions have no effect on the amount of buttons you had previously, because you’re taking them now anyways (Protect, Swiftcast, Lucid Dreaming and Esuna to name a few—all of these had their own buttons in ARR/HW...and now they still have their own button, it’s just locked behind the cross-role system; nothing changed with regards to number of buttons).