Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
DRK always a one combo job. Other combos "fake."
Just like, not empirically true. Yes, you always wanted the Souleater combo to go through with a buff, but you couldn't always, and that was the point. No matter how good you were at managing things and communicating/having your co-tank build enmity prior to swaps, you were going to have to do the very cool Power Slash combo to not impinge raid DPS(and to hopefully get you some more Low Blow procs back when those existed) and also so the DRG's face wouldn't get eaten.

Ariane talked of why you would do the Delirium combo, so you could hold Dark Arts, and that was also true.

But really, your eyes on key presses instead of what's happening in game is what's wrong here. People don't want more combos just to vary up button presses a little bit. They want to see different things happen on the screen. The combos that have been eliminated also eliminated part of the video in this video game. You can set your combos to whatever button combination that you want, whether your combo is, "4-3-9" or "1-2-3" is irrelevant to what players like to see play out on screen. That's what people care about and why they complain about combos.

Just like glamours, people care way more about form over function. There are tons of people who also just use the, "fake" combo to see the animation.

Variable GCD is a nice idea, and jobs like MCH/BRD do make use of those, but they are not any less of, "tapping out a drum beat" than a full combo. They're just easier to execute, because when they come off of cooldown, you use them, sometimes needing to buff them before hand. Which is related to timers, which is what most old combos that were eliminated were tied to anyway.

The most interactive, not drum beat combos, that the game ever had were enmity combos. Their use(or not) depended entirely upon who you were playing with in addition to crit RNG, both your Crit RNG and the players lobbying against you for enmity's. And most people hated that, because it meant paying extra attention. If my memory is not mistaken, you and your sexy blindfolded avatar are one such individual.