Dancer in 6.0

[Rongway]

What the heck does Flourish not turn into Fan Dance IV when used? For that matter, Technical Step -> Tillana and Devilment -> Starfall Dance could use the same treatment. Why do we need to have separate hotbar slots for these things?!

DNC has so few buttons already, and will have even fewer in EW since we'll be able to keep completely separate AoE and single target bars with the change to Steps; however, I will always agree that condition-locked actions should share a button with the action that unlocks them. If you 100% absolutely must press action 1 before you can use action 2, it should be a 1-1 instead of a 1-2. It's puzzling that there are still some buttons that have escaped that treatment (Between the Lines, Yoshi-P please) when so many buttons now upgrade just to save space or prevent you from activating a weaker action that could be used incorrectly instead.

[Kaedys]

however, I will always agree that condition-locked actions should share a button with the action that unlocks them. If you 100% absolutely must press action 1 before you can use action 2, it should be a 1-1 instead of a 1-2. It's puzzling that there are still some buttons that have escaped that treatment (Between the Lines, Yoshi-P please) when so many buttons now upgrade just to save space or prevent you from activating a weaker action that could be used incorrectly instead.

Exactly! In any situation where two buttons are both linked and mutually exclusive, they should simply replace. If ability 2 cannot be used until ability 1 is used, and ability 1 cannot be used while ability 2 is usable (usually due to cooldown), or even often if ability 2 is always used following ability 1, you should have that bar conversion. And there are so many examples of this still out there. Heck, even Reaper still has a couple that could use that treatment (Enshroud -> Communio and Arcane Circle -> Plentiful Harvest), despite having a pretty good ability replacement setup. Hotbar bloat is a serious thing, and FFXIV is, imo, particularly bad about it sometimes.