What skill(s) would you change for your class if you could?

[HyoMinPark]

I’m a little confused on this one. So all you want is the icon display to change? Not sure about you, but I never look at my buff bar for the proc, but rather the hot bar itself. Or are you saying change the Straight Shot GCD to Refulgent Arrow every time it procs?

No, I want the Straighter Shot icon (proc) to change to Refulgent Arrow. Since so many people complain about button bloat (even though BRD doesn't have this...I have empty spaces on my hotbars for BRD), plus it's a change I've want since SB launched. You never Straighter over Refulgent at level 70 except in one very rare situation, which can be easily avoided if you are watching your timers. So why not change the Straighter Shot icon to RA? I use the term proc to describe the button because it procs the dotted yellow line around the Straight Shot button.

I keep my eyes on not only my hotbars, but my buff bar, and the bosses' bar to keep up with all my timers--hotbars to watch for procs, buff bar to watch for important raid buffs so I can snapshot my DoTs, and bosses' bar to refresh DoTs. I'm not talking about changing the icon on your buff bar though--I want the actual Straighter Shot button changed. I'm...not sure what was so hard to understand about my post though... O.o

For brd/drg/mch, get rid of straight shot/heavy thrust/hot and fold their damage boosts in to the job or add the buffs to their normal dps rotation in the same way sam's buffs/debuffs naturally fall in to it's Sen generation as a baseline.

I'm curious how you would want this implemented in BRD, because BRD does not have a 1-2-3 like combo like SAM. A BRD's rotation is more priority, so unless it's added into the DoTs, or placed on Heavy Shot (the button we press the most), I'm not sure how you would incorporate SS's crit buff if SS was removed.

[Khalithar]

I'm curious how you would want this implemented in BRD, because BRD does not have a 1-2-3 like combo like SAM. A BRD's rotation is more priority, so unless it's added into the DoTs, or placed on Heavy Shot (the button we press the most), I'm not sure how you would incorporate SS's crit buff if SS was removed.

1. Make it a trait.
2. Add it as an additional effect to songs, 10% to the brd and 2% to the rest of the group. (Favorite method)
3. Add it as an additional effect to DoTs.

Edit:

I wanted to add, for things like Heavy Thrust, Hot Shot, Straight shot, and Huton (i.e. buff moves that fall outside your damage rotation) I refer to those as "maintenance buffs." I am all for scrapping every single last one of them entirely or (failing that) putting them in the base damage rotation in the same vein as Samurai. Samurai is the only time I actually haven't minded those sorts of buffs on something I play.

[AkashiXI]

No, I want the Straighter Shot icon (proc) to change to Refulgent Arrow. Since so many people complain about button bloat (even though BRD doesn't have this...I have empty spaces on my hotbars for BRD), plus it's a change I've want since SB launched. You never Straighter over Refulgent at level 70 except in one very rare situation, which can be easily avoided if you are watching your timers. So why not change the Straighter Shot icon to RA? I use the term proc to describe the button because it procs the dotted yellow line around the Straight Shot button.

I keep my eyes on not only my hotbars, but my buff bar, and the bosses' bar to keep up with all my timers--hotbars to watch for procs, buff bar to watch for important raid buffs so I can snapshot my DoTs, and bosses' bar to refresh DoTs. I'm not talking about changing the icon on your buff bar though--I want the actual Straighter Shot button changed. I'm...not sure what was so hard to understand about my post

It was your wording, my apologies. I thought that’s what you meant, and that was the second question I asked :v. IMO, Refulgent should have its own button, and they should make it so that Straigther Shot isn’t a thing at level 70. I understand why they didn’t do that (most likely a problem programming it with various synch scenarios), but I feel that would make it less confusing for fresh 70s.

[Shurrikhan]

It was your wording, my apologies. I thought that’s what you meant, and that was the second question I asked :v. IMO, Refulgent should have its own button, and they should make it so that Straigther Shot isn’t a thing at level 70. I understand why they didn’t do that (most likely a problem programming it with various synch scenarios), but I feel that would make it less confusing for fresh 70s.

But if Refulgent can't be used except during Straighter Shot, and Straight Shot can't essentially be used during Straighter Shot, why not stack them as one would Fell Cleave and Inner Beast?

[HyoMinPark]

It was your wording, my apologies. I thought that’s what you meant, and that was the second question I asked :v. IMO, Refulgent should have its own button, and they should make it so that Straigther Shot isn’t a thing at level 70. I understand why they didn’t do that (most likely a problem programming it with various synch scenarios), but I feel that would make it less confusing for fresh 70s.

Then I apologize if my wording was hard to follow. Guess that's what I get for posting in a thread half-asleep. :v

As for your suggestion, I still think switching Straight Shot to Refulgent while under the effect of Straighter Shot would be best. Since you would never take Straighter over Refulgent in the majority of scenarios, and you generally use it almost immediately save if your next GCD needs to be Iron Jaws, or Barrage has ~8 seconds left on its cooldown timer and you're going to Barrage+RA during your RS.

As for Khalithar's suggestions, if they removed SS completely, I'd prefer them to work its buff into Venomous Bite/Caustic Bite. Since you get it fairly early on (Level 8, right? Super baby level early) and can guarantee near 100% uptime, where as you don't have your full song rotation until you get Minuet at 52. So there would be a gap before then of when you wouldn't have your crit buff at all if they incorporated SS into bard songs. Just my opinion though. Guess it really doesn't matter at such a low level but, eh.