Korean Live Letter Summary

[Magic-Mal]

Your three songs should have already been on your hotbars in the first place... they aren’t new buttons.

In terms of new buttons, we gained 4: Pitch Perfect, Troubadour, Nature’s Minne, and Refulgent. If you want to add in our necessary role actions, Refresh, Tactician, and Palisade (we already had access to Invigorate, Second Wind, and Peloton [Swiftsong] in ARR/HW, so I don’t count them, and Head Graze is situational enough that it doesn’t have priority space on my hotbars; the other cross-role actions are worthless in most content).

And we lost Shadowbind, Hawk’s Eye, Quelling Strikes, Blunt Arrow, Flaming Arrow, and Wide Volley. Not to mention B4B and Internal Release. Repelling Shot is useless enough that it shouldn’t even be on your bar. So we more or less evened out in terms of buttons lost versus buttons we gained.

At most, they can get rid of Repelling Shot, and consolidate Straighter Shot procs into Refulgent Arrow with a level 70 trait, since you aren’t ever going to Straighter over Refulgent save for a niche scenario that can be easily avoided if you’re paying attention (DoT refresh under SS). This is even assuming they’re going to add in 5 new skills in 5.0; they could just upgrade our DoTs again, which would honestly be better since they’re such a large portion of our damage anyways.

BRD isn’t hurting for hotbar real estate. They never have been tbh.

That was the point of my worries though. I don't trust the team to NOT mess up BRD. Last time they deleted "underused" attacks they deleted Flaming Arrow, Hawk's Eye, Blunt Arrow, etc so... All attacks that were constantly used 24/7. While they kept Repelling Arrow and made it completely worthless.

They'll probably do something dumb like delete Raging Strikes and Bloodletter next time in 5.0 or delete Straight. Shot and make it a trait so the buff is up forever. All to "Close the skill gap between casual players and elite players by raising the skill floor"

When I see "pruning" you better believe I am put on edge.