Job action combos one button

[Istaru]

Do you think we will see the day where our rotation for combos will be just one button instead of 3-4? I think it would be a blessing and cut down on the hotbar bloat that we are getting for skills. What are your opinions on it?

Why stop there, we should have one button, period.

You get to some monsters and you push your button, it would do your entire rotation, including buffs and continue to do it until all monsters are dead, it would select single target or AoE for you, if you are a tank, it would use cooldowns, for healers, it could oGCD heal for you too!

Just think of how it would solve all the problems we have. Ice Mage? Solved! Freecure fisher? Not anymore! Tank not using cooldowns for tank busters? Fixed that too! DPS only using single target rotation for 757 monsters? Impossible!

This would be the best change ever implemented to the game!

If they did this, and added in for our characters to actually do mechanics for us, everyone could clear Savage and Ultimate too! Look at that engagement rate, it would be 100%

[Amon-ster]

Why stop there, we should have one button, period.

You get to some monsters and you push your button, it would do your entire rotation, including buffs and continue to do it until all monsters are dead, it would select single target or AoE for you, if you are a tank, it would use cooldowns, for healers, it could oGCD heal for you too!

Just think of how it would solve all the problems we have. Ice Mage? Solved! Freecure fisher? Not anymore! Tank not using cooldowns for tank busters? Fixed that too! DPS only using single target rotation for 757 monsters? Impossible!

This would be the best change ever implemented to the game!

If they did this, and added in for our characters to actually do mechanics for us, everyone could clear Savage and Ultimate too! Look at that engagement rate, it would be 100%

Yeah when are they gonna add the button that lets me just win.

[hagare]

Why stop there, we should have one button, period.

You get to some monsters and you push your button, it would do your entire rotation, including buffs and continue to do it until all monsters are dead, it would select single target or AoE for you, if you are a tank, it would use cooldowns, for healers, it could oGCD heal for you too!

Just think of how it would solve all the problems we have. Ice Mage? Solved! Freecure fisher? Not anymore! Tank not using cooldowns for tank busters? Fixed that too! DPS only using single target rotation for 757 monsters? Impossible!

This would be the best change ever implemented to the game!

If they did this, and added in for our characters to actually do mechanics for us, everyone could clear Savage and Ultimate too! Look at that engagement rate, it would be 100%

you never pvp do you
or hey, remember playing as Thancred where his combo gets consolidated?

[Istaru]

you never pvp do you
or hey, remember playing as Thancred where his combo gets consolidated?

I do and I do.

If it helps at all, just add a /s to my post.

While there is no real skill required to memorize and repeat a series of button presses, if you are going to slim down the combat to pressing 1 button over and over for your GCD actions, why not go all the way? As for the rest of the post, I was taking the **** on the entire idea.

I truly hate this idea, I despise that it was ever added to PVP and we will see these posts nonstop until the end of time or they give in and do it. At which point, the requests will change to now be requests to add more things into it until we have the famed JP button from FFXI.

That was the point of my post, that these requests are ridiculous.

[Shurrikhan]

I do and I do.

If it helps at all, just add a /s to my post.

While there is no real skill required to memorize and repeat a series of button presses, if you are going to slim down the combat to pressing 1 button over and over for your GCD actions, why not go all the way?

It's still an extension far into the absurd.

The effects are nowhere close; optionally unbloating some 6 to 14% of one's buttons does not reduce one's play to a single button. The intentions are nowhere close; consolidating skills that are already mutually exclusive in practice has no interest in making the game "auto-win".

[hagare]

I do and I do.

If it helps at all, just add a /s to my post.

While there is no real skill required to memorize and repeat a series of button presses, if you are going to slim down the combat to pressing 1 button over and over for your GCD actions, why not go all the way? As for the rest of the post, I was taking the **** on the entire idea.

I truly hate this idea, I despise that it was ever added to PVP and we will see these posts nonstop until the end of time or they give in and do it. At which point, the requests will change to now be requests to add more things into it until we have the famed JP button from FFXI.

That was the point of my post, that these requests are ridiculous.

so instead of one combo set you prefer a meaningless 123 combo.
There are other buttons you know.
Why not all the way? Because not everything is meaninglessly bloated.
People aren't asking this so the gameplay becomes easier. Hell, the APM is the same.
the only change is which button you press. Instead of 123, it's now just 111. With the proper oGCD in between.
If you used to press 1>C1>2>C2>3>C3, it's now 1>C1>1>C2>1>C3. Same six actions.
And you know this.
You admitted that it's meaningless and takes no real skill just having 3 buttons for 3 actions with artificial differences.
So rather than an /s on your post, a /disingenuous would be more appropriate.

[Saraide]

so instead of one combo set you prefer a meaningless 123 combo.
There are other buttons you know.
Why not all the way? Because not everything is meaninglessly bloated.
People aren't asking this so the gameplay becomes easier. Hell, the APM is the same.
the only change is which button you press. Instead of 123, it's now just 111. With the proper oGCD in between.
If you used to press 1>C1>2>C2>3>C3, it's now 1>C1>1>C2>1>C3. Same six actions.
And you know this.
You admitted that it's meaningless and takes no real skill just having 3 buttons for 3 actions with artificial differences.
So rather than an /s on your post, a /disingenuous would be more appropriate.

It does make the job easier though, the attention you need for where you are in your combo is suddenly freed up entirely.

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Calling it an option is pretty irrelevant, it's inherently linked to job balance and fight difficulty. Options have to be designed around. Breaking combo is an attention thing, if it's a matter of dexterity I'd wager the real problem is proper hotbar setup.

I can see your point with combo steps that are completely unavailable outside the specific time you are supposed to press them. That's why I wasnt against the cartridge combo collapse on gunbreaker. I wouldnt apply that logic to all combos in the game however.

This game's pve combat system is designed around keeping your rotation going, that's where job difficulty comes from. So every part of the rotation that gets automated away makes the job and therefore the game easier. PvP on the other hand focuses more on correct prioritization of enemies and objectives. The role play duties on the other hand have intentionally extremely dumbed down versions of jobs because they cant assume that you know what any of the regular job actions do. Which makes the pure combat roleplay duties a bit dull from a gameplay standpoint and makes the this is thancred duty shine more because it takes a different approach.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

It does make the job easier though, the attention you need for where you are in your combo is suddenly freed up entirely.

Not if you have positionals, as said before.

This game's pve combat system is designed around keeping your rotation going, that's where job difficulty comes from. So every part of the rotation that gets automated away makes the job and therefore the game easier.

Job are easier or harder depending on how hard it is to optimize your rotation to the boss, not how hard it is to keep your rotation going, hence why physical ranged are almost always considered easier than hard casters or melees. Every monkey with half a brain can have a perfect rotation on a dummy, given he has the adequate inputs, and inputs do not discriminate better players, they discriminate against people that have disabilites.

What makes a good player isn't their ability to do their rotation, but to adjust to every fight, do mechanics perfectly, and keep uptime. Rotations are the fun part, not the hard part. But, by having bloating issues, you discriminate some players from being able to do their rotation effectively, and thus, from playing at a good level.

Some pages ago, someone said that you could macro different hotbars to have the same input do different skills, but that is not really an option as well, since it's basically like adding an oGCD in your rotation every time you need to swap hotbars, so it makes life harder for those that can't do the same number of input that you do.

All in all, the best way to ensure people with disabilities can play like the rest of us is to give that option to players.

[Saraide]

Not if you have positionals, as said before.



Job are easier or harder depending on how hard it is to optimize your rotation to the boss, not how hard it is to keep your rotation going, hence why physical ranged are almost always considered easier than hard casters or melees. Every monkey with half a brain can have a perfect rotation on a dummy, given he has the adequate inputs, and inputs do not discriminate better players, they discriminate against people that have disabilites.

What makes a good player isn't their ability to do their rotation, but to adjust to every fight, do mechanics perfectly, and keep uptime. Rotations are the fun part, not the hard part. But, by having bloating issues, you discriminate some players from being able to do their rotation effectively, and thus, from playing at a good level.

Some pages ago, someone said that you could macro different hotbars to have the same input do different skills, but that is not really an option as well, since it's basically like adding an oGCD in your rotation every time you need to swap hotbars, so it makes life harder for those that can't do the same number of input that you do.

All in all, the best way to ensure people with disabilities can play like the rest of us is to give that option to players.

Do you have experience with playing with a disability or are you just talking for someone else? Like I said, the option thing is an irrelevant point, options have to be designed around. I dont know how positionals have anything to do with this topic.

Knowing the rotation and being able to execute it are two different things. No small part of that latter depends on how well you know the fight. But that just means the better you are at mechanics the better you become at your rotation and the better you are with your rotation the better you become at mechanics. You can not seperate them. A good player is able to execute their rotation while resolving mechanics.

There is an insanely good player who plays with only one hand (and I think 2 fingers missing on that hand aswell) who has cleared like everything afaik. That guy is a lot better than most people without any disabilities so I'm not convinced that combo collapsing is honestly a disability thing.

[hagare]

It does make the job easier though, the attention you need for where you are in your combo is suddenly freed up entirely.



Calling it an option is pretty irrelevant, it's inherently linked to job balance and fight difficulty. Options have to be designed around. Breaking combo is an attention thing, if it's a matter of dexterity I'd wager the real problem is proper hotbar setup.

I can see your point with combo steps that are completely unavailable outside the specific time you are supposed to press them. That's why I wasnt against the cartridge combo collapse on gunbreaker. I wouldnt apply that logic to all combos in the game however.

This game's pve combat system is designed around keeping your rotation going, that's where job difficulty comes from. So every part of the rotation that gets automated away makes the job and therefore the game easier. PvP on the other hand focuses more on correct prioritization of enemies and objectives. The role play duties on the other hand have intentionally extremely dumbed down versions of jobs because they cant assume that you know what any of the regular job actions do. Which makes the pure combat roleplay duties a bit dull from a gameplay standpoint and makes the this is thancred duty shine more because it takes a different approach.

yeah, positionals, where to squeeze in an oGCD would still make you pay attention.
But it does get easier. From the ease of pushing 123 to the ease of pushing 111