Quote Originally Posted by DRKoftheAzure View Post
Unless your idea is actually making Bow Shock a Continuation skill for Sonic Break to try and make button bloat not a problem while also making Sonic Break a cone AoE, which is probably the better solution anyway, you ideas already suck and I'm not going to bother sugarcoating it...

Yes both Bow Shock and Sonic Break are both DoTs, they both have the same cooldown(with no skillspeed btw) but they have different duration timers, and by your logic, it's okay to merge Machinists charge skills into one button, merge the Heat Gauge Burst buttons into one button as well
Then start explaining why it sucks instead of creating a strawman.
GNB needs to shave oGCDs, the dashes and Bow Shock are the perfect candidates.

Removing Bow shock wouldn't change a lot about GNB either, you just need to press it during buff window, which is on cooldown.
Sonic Break and Bow Shock may have different duration but if all that separates them are the duration of the dot, then there's no need of having two of them. Make Sonic Break dot a 15s, longer duration can be screwed by downtime.

Let's stay we instead break Sonic break in 2 GCDs and they both do the same thing, have the same cooldown but different dot duration.
Would that make Gunbreaker more challenging? No.
Would that make Gunbreaker more skillbased? No.
Is it just adding button bloat for not real purpose? Yes.

Apply the reversed question to merging Bow Shock and Sonic break.