Idea to simplify combo action skills

[Garvey]

So what about Ninja who has:

Spinning Edge > Shadow Fang
Spinning Edge > Gust Slash > Dancing Edge
Spinning Edge > Gust Slash > Aeolian Edge

What is the icon supposed to change to when I have multiple options?

Unless I've misunderstood your idea.

Good point, after giving it some thought, I'm going to adjust my idea a bit now. You could still simplify it into 2 buttons, one for each option you have at a given moment.

Initially, the first button is Spinning Edge, and the 2nd button is inactive.

Once you use Spinning Edge, the first button morphs into Shadow Fang and the 2nd button morphs into Gust Slash.

If you use Gust Slash, the first button morphs into Dancing Edge, and the 2nd button morphs into Aeolian Edge.

So your 3 sequences would be

1 -> 1
1 -> 2 -> 1
1 -> 2 -> 2

instead of

1 -> 2
1 -> 3 -> 4
1 -> 3 -> 5

And for dragoon it would be the following sequences (starting with either impulse drive or true thrust)

1 -> 1 -> 1 -> 1
2 -> 1 -> 1 -> 1

instead of

1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 or 5
6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 4 or 5

The only disadvantage I could see with this is that once you start a sequence, you can't stop it and switch to another one in the middle of it. But I think that could be solved with a simple "reset" hotkey, if that situation ever arose. Honestly though in playing, I've never really wanted to stop a sequence in the middle of it to do a different one, since it seems like a loss to do so.