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    Player Seraphor's Avatar
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    Seraphor Vhinasch
    World
    Zodiark
    Main Class
    Gunbreaker Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by vetch View Post
    WHM certainly doesn't have button bloat anymore now that they've deleted Protect. And how I love it when I don't have to faff about actually pressing skills! Maybe next they'll make the monsters' HP go down automatically. The effect would be identical.

    We still have bars full of skills. What actually happened is that they deleted one from the 'long duration' category where button bloat is not felt as much to free up a slot for the 'use repeatedly' category where it's felt much more, so it increased the feeling of bloat, and in so doing took away a fun and friendly way to interact with people while questing in the world.
    Can't disagree more.
    It reduced button bloat because it removed a skill you rarely use (once every 30 minutes) in favour of skills you use much more frequently (adding more fun to the job). And while WHM may have a lower skill count than other jobs, I'm talking about all healers, Protect was after all a role skill.
    There was absolutely nothing fun about waiting around for 10-30 seconds at the start of every duty for the Healer to hit the Protect button and then forget all about it.

    Imagine if every skill had a 30 minute cooldown and you just had to spam Cure the rest of the time. Such fun!
    That would be button bloat, loads of pointless skills just taking up space instead of using that space for useful skills.
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    Last edited by Seraphor; 09-04-2022 at 07:20 AM.