Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
People are resistant to combo consolidation because the dev team hasn't been especially innovative, thus we're concerned jobs like Dragoon will suddenly have massive free hotbar space that never gets used.
A fair amount of resistance is the result of confusing method (1 button progressive combos) with objective (getting PvP buttons down to about 16). They hear 1 button combos and their minds immediately go to the gutted rotations of PvP without realizing that the culled actions rather than the 1 button combos are why the PvP kits feel gutted compared to the PvE kits.

The onus needs to be on SE to sell their change. Like I said, I'm open to reducing the combos to a single button if I've given something else to engage with.
Which is what I think a lot of the supporters are actually hoping for. For example, my hoped changes for the 6.0 Paladin with combo compression would be something like this:
  • Rage of Halone/Royal Authority combo compressed down to 1 button from 3 (Goring Blade stays as its own button and an alternative finisher for the combo)
  • Shield Lob getting a 3 stage ranged combo that generates Sword Oath stacks
  • Total Eclipse and Prominence turned to a 1 button combo that also generates Sword Oath
  • An AoE Sword Oath weaponskill that inflicts a 12s version of the Goring Blade DoT
  • A ranged Sword Oath weaponskill that would extend the Goring Blade DoT
  • Another independent action that can be on or off the gcd
In effect the Paladin would get 5 new actions without losing any existing actions. This would all be possible by compressing 6 buttons down to 3 and turning an existing button into a 3 part combo.