Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[NessaWyvern]

It's not dumbing down to make it playable. 35 skills is way too many. 20-25 would be a good compromise for pve. Seems theres some confusion as to what is dumbing down and what is just part of keeping a game designed well as they expand upon it.

For a while, I used to play scholar in pvp, when HW came out. There were 38 skills all up (not including pet abilities) however, scholar in general, had a fair few more skills than the average class, and it wasn't that hard to manage them (and I didn't have a fancy gaming mouse then).

^ This is what my old hotbar used to look like

PS4 players would of course, struggle with a controller set-up. . Basically, if you knew your class in PvE, it wasn't too hard to add the PvP abilities in there. There were so many neat little tricks you could do, that newer players wouldn't even realize you could do. It rewarded people for their experience.


And yes, it IS dumbing down. For example, AST, you used to manage cards in pvp, which cards you would keep, which to royal road, etc. Now? You're just stuck with what ever card you get, and you get 2 options. Use the card, or burn it for a HoT/or damage. Oh, and they have no more aoe heals, so you spend most of the match spamming Benefic heals on people for the instant cast proc.