Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
Furthermore, new oGCDs aren't necessarily a welcomed trade off. I would rather have Vorpal Thrust than Battle Litany. Why? I press the latter significantly less often. This, in turn, will make the rotation feel as though I'm pressing the same button repeatedly.

New oGCDs would particularly be really bad on tanks. oGCD real-estate can already get pretty limited on certain situations, to the degree that you have to optimize certain weave-slots to make sure you're able to use certain live-saving cooldowns at the right time. (This can often mean exactly 19s/14s ahead of time, so that it falls off the moment after the tank-buster hits and is ready just in time for another buster down the line.)

In EW they've now added a CD that needs to be timed to the moment just before the attack for maximum efficacy, further constricting oGCD allocation choices.

Really, oGCD bloat is a significantly larger problem in my opinion than GCD bloat.

Quote Originally Posted by Cithaerias_pyropina View Post
What I don't understand is why people defend the need for everything to be its own separate hotkey if they can be merged
Repetitively pressing a single button is actually bad for your health; Spreading the most repetitive part of your rotation across multiple inputs can actually help to reduce the potential for RSI. I largely stopped playing healer because of the pain that starts building in my wrist after about ten minutes of spamming malefic. I don't experience the same pain on any of the jobs with a 1-2-3 style combo.