Quote Originally Posted by linay View Post
For me, it's actually easier (perhaps psychologically) to do combos when they're on separate buttons as compared to the same button changing to different abilities.



That's mine today at level 75. I think it's perfect in terms of number of combat abilities (including role actions, limit break, and duty action 1).
Yeah, that's because you don't combine Venomous Bite/Windbite, and you have one extra role actions I have no need for. You also have Limit Break, Teleport, Return, a minion, and something else on your main hotbar, whereas I have those types of items on a sidehotbar (I only had two unrelated bard items on my hotbar). So, that accounts for all the empty spaces, which is why yours looks fuller than mine. I really have no desire to fill mine up with crap I don't need on it. XD

So, in comparison to before when my hotbars were almost completely full with just bard actions: yeah. The purge hit hard and I do think the OP has a right to be worried XD. Because, if there was another skill purge in the next expansion, it'd be iffy for Bard. It would feel like there's not much left because right now it feels like it's the bare bones of the class. All my other classes don't have this issue, they're pretty much all full. A couple of bards skills just become "new and improved" versions of themselves (straight arrow to refulgent arrow, venomous bite to caustic bite, windbite to stormbite, not sure if there are others) so that + the lack of palisade/foe req/mp song/tp song/separated straight & refuleant arrow is probably why they feel so empty to me.

So, what would be the next skills to get purged in 6.0? Nature's Minne? Warden's Paeon? I'd be curious to see. :|