Complexity/Sensory Overload

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Not if the AoE can be anticipated, and still, extra damage. The fact it does damage alone makes it useful.

The fact it does damage doesn't make it useful. Fracture does damage, but it's still nearly useless. Repelling shot is pointless because it delays WM gcd's and costs more damage than gained by its measly 20 potency.

But you didn't factor in the damage. Repelling shot is a bad skill, but it's not useless. For example, Fracture is a bad skill but has a use, the way shield swipe used to be was a useless skill (no redeeming qualities no matter how much you stretched it).

Fracture's bad for every job except monk and Warrior. Repelling Shot is always useless for its primary function, which is the jump back.

[WinterLuna]

The fact it does damage doesn't make it useful. Fracture does damage, but it's still nearly useless. Repelling shot is pointless because it delays WM gcd's and costs more damage than gained by its measly 20 potency.

I can't tell if you're trolling but I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not. You use Repelling Shot in between skills, it doesn't affect anything. It's an extra bit of damage. You're not sacrificing damage by using it. It also has 80 potency, not 20.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I can't tell if you're trolling but I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not. You use Repelling Shot in between skills, it doesn't affect anything. It's an extra bit of damage. You're not sacrificing damage by using it. It also has 80 potency, not 20.

You use a GCD, try to weave in Repelling shot between the second, and try to fire off another GCD. But wait, you hit it too quickly(Read:As soon as the previous GCD finished) and now you're spending more than half a second waiting for the interrupted cast to finish so you can get back to attacking, which caused a delay of +1 second in your GCD. That's what I mean by it delaying your GCD, either by delaying it manually by not firing off your next gcd when its up for aboit a second for the animation to finish, or by having a failed cast go theough whoch takes even more time out of your gcd, especially since you have to delay your gcd again to move in if you get no straighter shot prics. Especially painful if you don't have a straighter shot proc and Feint is a DPS loss in the long run due to the 90 tp cost.

[WinterLuna]

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So you're basically saying it's useless if you don't use the skill correctly because you've used it too quickly?

You can play both with controller and/or keyboard + mouse

I will rephrase, I can't play with this interface because I can't use a mouse and keyboard due to the fact I don't play with a desk.

I'm not sure why so many people, who play with controller, are stating that they don't have enough space to place abilities on their crossbars.

It's not that there isn't enough space, there's plenty of space. It's the lack of efficiency of switching between multiple hotbars. There could be 100 separate bars but this doesn't make it any easier to use.

Some people are completely fine with it, and I'm genuinely glad others find it easy to use! But some of us find it messy and rather annoying.