I don't think that putting combos like they are in PvP would dumb the game down at all. It's not any harder to press 1-2-3 in the right order with ~2-2.5s in between each button press than to press 1-1-1. If anything, by making these changes to PvE too, they'd have so much free room that they could add a LOT of new standalone skills based on job-specific mechanics and oGCDs that would actually increase the skill cap of the classes. Right now, we have so much buttons just for bland GCD combos that require no skill whatsoever to properly pull off, that it ultimately limits the number of buttons available for other interesting mechanics that they could add.

Quote Originally Posted by CorbinDallas View Post
The only thing from PvP that should be brought over to PvE are the skill consolidations that should have been in place since the launch of Stormblood. It's completely ass backwards how they claimed they were reducing button bloat, yet still had numerous cases of needless bloat.

Dreadwyrm Trance + Deathflare
Summon Bahamut + Enkindle Bahamut
Leylines + Between the Lines
Enochian being a trait and not a needless button press - you lose access to everything when you drop AF/UI anyway

The list goes on. How can they justify having Nastrond replacing Geirskogul, yet leave shit like this in?
They did a great job with WAR, making Fell Cleave and Inner Beast share the same button, same for Decimate/Steel Cyclone and Unchained/Inner Release. And they also have Equilibrium since HW which could have been two seperate skills since it has completely different functions depending on the stance. But it's one button too. Why didn't they do the same for every job ? It's really awkward.