Paladin button consolidation for 6.0

[Elizasylen]

I think people are taking it one step further than I intended. I don't want to remove skills. Just the necessity of having those skill hotkeyed. Turning Royal Authority into Atonement doesn't get rid of either skill, it just replaces Royal Authority when Sword Oath is up, reducing the need to having Atonement take its own keybind.

Same with Requiescat and Confiteor.

[ArianeEwah]

I think people are taking it one step further than I intended. I don't want to remove skills. Just the necessity of having those skill hotkeyed. Turning Royal Authority into Atonement doesn't get rid of either skill, it just replaces Royal Authority when Sword Oath is up, reducing the need to having Atonement take its own keybind.

I believe we are at the point we should combine combo skills into single button(s), just like those in PvP. To those who believe that in doing so, the difficulty would drop, I have to disagree. Lowering the button count doesn't necessarily result in an easier game, as you still need the knowledge WHEN to use certain buttons or skills. I admit that it would up the lowest of lowest that would press combo skills without their combo, on purpose or not, and it makes it easier to reach your common combo buttons. But nothing will beat knowledge and the ability to use it. Imho, it shouldn't be possible to use un-combo-ed skills anyway.

Let's take PLD combo for example. You'ld have 2 buttons: (1) is "Goring Blade-combo", and (2) is "Royal Authority-combo -> Atonement". A newbie would most likely only press either (1) or (2), but a veteran would use both and know when to, too. You can do the same stuff with 2 buttons, you could do with 5 buttons before.

And it will be necessary if we want to keep our current actions as well. We (and SE) need to prevent button bloat, you can only reach so many hotkeys. If this doesn't happen - one way or another, we WILL lose some action to make place for new ones. And I for once, don't want to lose another useful action that gets reintroduced as a new one later on; and other (early accessable) benefits getting stripped from us, just to get reintroduced as a trait (yes, I am looking at you, Enhanced Thrill of Battle trait!). I would rather get new ones that interact with the current kit instead of scraping and downgrading stuff.

Other simple examples (outside of combos):
NIN-Dream within a Dream->Assassinate; BLM-Enochian->Blizzard IV/Fire IV and Leylines->Between the Lines; SMN-Enkindle Egi->Enkindle Bahamut/Phoenix and/or ED->Fester+ES->Pain Flare; DRG-(High) Jump->Mirage Dive; BRD-Wanderer's Minuet->Pitch Perfect and probably many more (that I can't think of rn because I am tired)

Cheers