Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
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.



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.
While for you, it may have helped, RSI is not really constrained to simply pressing one button repeatedly. Even complex movements or actions consisting of multipole movements such as the 1-2-3 combo system regularly lead to RSI. Hence how accountants, typists, dental hygienists are all considered high risk for RSI. I have numerous friends that have RSI from MMOs and even one that got it while plying this game and he finds the condensed combos of PvP more bearable. The best way to avoid RSI is posture, support and form of using what ever you are repeatedly doing.