Quote Originally Posted by Arohk View Post
When you control Thancred during the Ran'jit fight, he has ONE button for all three attacks, but why can't MY character have the same thing?
RP fights use reduced or consolidated action sets because you can't expect every single player to know how to GNB properly, and they want you to succeed at the fight so you can continue the story.

Combos in the real game are Distractors, a mechanism by which you can do things wrong. You're expected to know how to play your job well enough that you don't press these buttons at the wrong time, but it can still happen.

There are a few places where certain changes should be made, but these are cases where we have multiple buttons for mutually exclusive actions (GNB Continuation steps; BLM Between the Lines, Enochian/Blizzard IV; SMN Phoenix/Dreadwyrm buttons, etc) or actions that are really just upgrades of base actions (WHM Solace and Rapture, MCH Heat Blast and Autocrossbow, PLD Atonement).

If you find yourself never pressing combo buttons out of order, congratulations, you're playing that part right. If you ever do find yourself pressing things out of order, your response should be "I need to practice this," not "This should be reduced to one button."