Quote Originally Posted by Ixon View Post
While I understand that sentiment, we also use just one cartridge to perform: Gnashing Fang > Jugular Rip > Savage Claw > Abdomen Tear > Wicked Talon > Eye Gouge. So if we can use one cartridge for a six-fold attack, using just one for Double Down doesn't seem too farfetched to me. Plus, DRK got pretty much the same exact thing with the two charges of Shadowbringers, but for some reason theirs is completely free.
Except, you're only using the cartridge for the one skill, Gnashing Fang. All skills thereafter are quite literally a combo / Continuation of that skill. If the skill is to be called Double Down, why wouldn't it cost double?

The main question is whether being mindful of one's gauge is fun, which is likely to see mixed answers. Take Stormblood-period SAM's gauge-margining for example. More seemed to like it than not --though likewise a majority seemed willing to sacrifice part of that for Hagakure being less restricted.

Thereafter, it simply falls into the same matter of GCDs. For instance, if Double-Down had a combo GCD, then it'd simply replace two Burst Strikes.