Idea to simplify combo action skills

[Ragology]

That's strange since I use the CHbar all the time and never have had that "quirk"..

I get the "quirk."

It happens when my weapon is sheathed and I decide to attack an enemy a skill from hotbar two, causing the game to default me to hotbar 1 because my weapon is now drawn. Even if you have hotbar 2 selected but then use the extended hotbar for your attack, as soon as you release the triggers, the game will default you to hotbar 1 since your weapon has gone from sheathed to drawn.

I get around this by having it so that I have to sheathe my weapon manually ( as opposed to the game doing it for me.)

[Duelle]

You also have monks which have a different comboing mechanic. They use stance buffs which enables the use of skills and aren't sequentially locked like the other melees.

MNKs could use a combo builder system like what Godhand or Remember Me had to get the same results as the OP's idea applied to classes like DRG or PLD.

[DiabolicMike]

Something I have done that is along these lines (took many itterations to get it how it 'felt right')

My ninja for ex (im a monk main, and perfect balance openers basically made this impossible):

My hotbar 1 slot 1 is a macro:
- /micon spinning edge
- /ac spinning edge
- /wait (standard 1 second)
- /hotbar change 4
- (note that wait is in here so I can mash the one button and it wont change hotbars until I stop mashing, but that the wait isnt longer than gcd)(hotbar 1 slot is empty)
Hotbar 4 slot 1 macro
- /micon gust slash
- /ac gust slash
- /wait
- /hotbar change 5
Hotbar 4 slot 2 macro
-/micon shadow fang
- /ac shadow fang
- /wait
- /hotbar change 1
Hotbar 5 slot 1 macro
- /micon Aeolian Edge
- /ac aeolian edge
- /wait
- /hotbar change 1
(repeat this for slot 2 with dancing edge)

This lets me start all of my combo's with one, and then everything follows is 1 or 2. As macro's cause delay in oGCD's you shouldnt have those on a macro as well, but be careful if for some reason you do. You can cancel the hotbar change if you hit one. Reading thru the thread I saw someone that mentioned having a 'reset' button in case a battle break or something happens and you get stuck on the wrong hotbar. Not something I had done but I think its genius. I would just quickly use up/down arrows to change.

I did this from memory as I am currently not online, however I dont think I forgot any skills that go into the combo. Hope it helps or maybe builds toward a cleaner setup.

Nano Slayer
Sarg. server

[Shurrikhan]

So, for instance, if I have 6 buttons, originally for Spinning Edge, Gust Slash, Aeolian Edge, Dancing Edge, Armor Crush, and Shadow Fang, the main idea is I can reduce this to 3 buttons:

If Spinning Edge:

1 Gust Slash
2 Shadow Fang
3 Spinning Edge (re-do... for the sake of prepping Shadow Fang for an enemy that has a GCD left to arrive?)

If Gust Slash:
1 Aeolian Edge
2 Dancing Edge
3 Armor Crush
(No Re-do Spinning Edge, because there's virtually no situations in which you'd waste a combo. Except maybe those pacify these mobs leve quests... in which case you'd just use Mutilate at that point anyways.)

Certainly easier for DRG, especially, as you said (just TT-VT-FT-F&C/WT, ID-DB-CT-F&C/WT, 8 in 2), though at the same time, all this makes me wish these moves still had value outside of their respective combos, so they didn't just feel like single 3-part weaponskills.

Monk would probably just be each of the three options per stance, I take it?
1 Bootshine / True Strike / Snap Punch
2 Dragon Kick / Twin Snakes / Demolish
3 Arm of the... / One-Ilm Punch / Rock Breaker

Would definitely be nice to be able to do this without having to change out hotbars via macros each time.