Korean Live Letter Summary

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I'm disappointed to learn that they don't want to combine combo skills into a single button in PvE like they did in PvP. It prevents clutter and...they could always just make it optional for those who do not want to use it.

There is no way to make it optional. If implemented, they simply aren't going to prune skills anymore, thereby forcing people who dislike the combo consolidation to deal with excess button bloat or conform.

I have no idea why people keep bringing up whether it takes more skill or not. Yoshida only said they wanted players in PvP to press less buttons likely because of how fast pace everything is. Granted, considering how well the PvP overhaul as been received. That approach didn't turn out too well. Regardless, it's not a skill issue but merely a psychological one. For a lot of people, myself included, the simple moment between keys gives the illusion of more engagement. Spamming 1-1-1-1-2 feels very repetitive hence why so many healers, especially Astros, want more DPS abilities.

I do not trust the dev team to do this ability pruning in a good way without destroying what is currently great about the jobs. I feel like it's a 100% chance they will ruin BRD. And we will log in on early access to see One-Ilm Punch, Arm of the Destroyer, and Repelling Shot still chilling in the Actions section.

I doubt it. Bard is probably one of the easier jobs to prune. Fold Straight and Refulgent Shot into the same button, making it so whenever Refulgent procs, it will temporarily replace Straight as you always want to press Refulgent. Afterwards, cut out Repelling Shot and call it done. Bard only received three new skills in Stormblood. So it's a fairly straight forward adjustment.