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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardButte View Post
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    Both examples you brought operate within the same programmatic context. Mounts on/off are the same context. Sects on/off are the same context. Gig and Hook are different gameplay contexts because fishing and spearfishing are two different gathering systems.
    That is not to say they couldn't do it, nor that they necessarily shouldn't, but from a programmatic point of view (with some assumptions applied) it makes zero sense for them to merge it. I just can't imagine the amount of work required to be cost-effective. Otherwise, they likely would've done it by now, as one of the major design guidelines of this expansion thus far has been to remove redundant buttons from your hotbar by adding traits that replace skills (sometimes for the better like with the Stones, sometimes for the worse, with the Aeroes - but that actually serves as a good example. Why didn't the Thunder spells get fully merged, or the Aeroes? Because one is single target and the other is an aoe. They serve two different purposes, so they remain. Same with Hook and Gig even if to the player, the difference there is less obvious)
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    Last edited by BillyKaplan; 07-17-2017 at 06:18 PM.