Auto Combo Buttons in PvE

[alimdia]

There's no "optional" with this, because either they balance damage and encounters around everyone just hitting 1 button over and over or they don't, so for the sake of balance they would have to force it on everyone and shift focus on oGCD damage.

[Interceptor]

Why not just have someone come play the game for you? That way you have to press zero buttons.

[Skivvy]

Why not just have someone come play the game for you? That way you have to press zero buttons.

Pressing the same button 3 times vs. pressing 3 different buttons once is practically the same thing. You are still doing 3 button presses, you just get to clear up the clutter that is your hotbar. You can still weave things in as needed - it's not like pressing the button once would perform all three actions instantly. That is still controlled by the player.

[Shihen]

It will probably happen eventually for linear combo paths. It was decent when there were fewer abilities and difficulty had to come from somewhere, but most difficulty now comes from buff/dot uptime management, proper oGCD weaving, and mechanics of the encounter itself.

It'll still get the usual cries of 'oh no this will ruin the game', 'I'm unsubbing', and 'we're becoming the game which most not be named', but in truth most classes would barely feel the change because almost every combo in the game branches. PLD for example: Savage Blade and RoH become a single button. That's pretty much it. Fast Blade combos into 2 different abilities so you can't make that a single button. Same with Riot Blade. It's basically just a QoL change to reduce hotbar clutter, but people will still dig their nails into their armchairs about how gamebreakingly bad it's going to be because the benefit of the change isn't immediately obvious.

[Freyt]

Pressing 1 2 3 is NOT more difficult than pressing 1 1 1.... which is exactly why I support this. Why should you have three slots on your hotbar assigned to "Basic Attack"? Having a combo is nice because animations, but other than that I don't see why we can't have a single skill with the average potency of the whole combo. Why don't they make more gcd's that aren't part of a combo, like Yoshida's favorite, Black Mage.

[Zojha]

Why not just have someone come play the game for you? That way you have to press zero buttons.

You are suggesting that, but many people are already doing that via bots. Just zoom into frontline sometime >.>

[Skivvy]

You are suggesting that, but many people are already doing that via bots. Just zoom into frontline sometime >.>

Bots are not relevant to the conversation, neither is some sarcastic remark claiming people just want someone to play the game for them.

[alimdia]

Pressing the same button 3 times vs. pressing 3 different buttons once is practically the same thing. You are still doing 3 button presses, you just get to clear up the clutter that is your hotbar. You can still weave things in as needed - it's not like pressing the button once would perform all three actions instantly. That is still controlled by the player.

Pressing 3 different buttons while doing mechanics is not the same as pressing the same button while doing mechanics, as shown by people with poor DPS in mechanic intensive fights, if what you said was true we wouldn't have such a big gap between someone who is trying and someone who isn't.

[Dortharl]

Pressing 3 different buttons while doing mechanics is not the same as pressing the same button while doing mechanics, as shown by people with poor DPS in mechanic intensive fights, if what you said was true we wouldn't have such a big gap between someone who is trying and someone who isn't.

The glaring hole in you logic, is that there are no classes at present that requires you to press the 1 button 3 times while doing mechanics so what are you comparing? What makes you think that people who can't handle pressing 3 button in order can handle pressing the same button 3 times?

Let's been clear 123 is not hard, it just isn't we aren't dealing with 8 move combos or time sensitive abilities at present it is literally 123 versus 111. There are valid arguments for why they should not implement this system but difficulty isn't one of them.

[alimdia]

The glaring hole in you logic, is that there are no classes at present that requires you to press the 1 button 3 times while doing mechanics so what are you comparing? What makes you think that people who can't handle pressing 3 button in order can handle pressing the same button 3 times?

Because pressing 1 button 3 times is easier. Also we do have classes that only press one button while doing mechanics, not every class has a combo system.