Quote Originally Posted by Goji1639 View Post
Knowing you have exactly 4GCD's until a mob dies or invulnerability phase starts up is something that will rarely, if ever, happen, but I guess that is one use for breaking combos if you're trying to extreme min/max something.

There's no reason that throwing the basic combo buttons onto different keybinds couldn't still be an option; but 99.99999% of the time I'd still want them consolidated, though.
What he's describing and what you're saying never happens is called 'optimization' and lots of people do it, consciously or no.

My $0.02 is I don't trust SE to replace what we got with something better, so I'm going to stick with the devil I know.