Quote Originally Posted by Shirala View Post
I am disabled and I think your first post was extremely insulting. Sure, a young healthy guy had an injury and learned to adapt. That says nothing other than the guy was driven to do such a thing.

The devs need to take into consideration people who cannot push a million buttons or have slower reflexes. Make it an option if other folks want to be challenged with the original setup.
I'm sorry I came across as insulting to you.

Making it just an option unfortunately doesnt mean anything. It would be something that the game then needs to be designed around as it would very clearly be an intended way of playing the game. There is a little bit of risk involved with playing the original setup that a combo collapse wouldnt face anymore (that's the whole point of it). However that risk isnt just something you alone are facing. This is a team game so by making it an option you're essentially making everyone who doesnt like a bit of an extra risk to the party. Whatever they choose to do, it will always affect everyone playing that job and everyone in the same party as them.

This is my first post in this thread btw:
Two things:

I think there are better ways to adress the button bloat that does exist on some jobs as it doesnt even affect a lot of jobs, stuff like undraw.

Remembering where you are in your combo takes a bit of attention that collapsing all combos into one button would automate away. Sure, no one is gonna miss a combo action when attacking a target dummy. But when something like firestorms together with your burst window is going on things might look a bit different. And keep in mind jobs balance is done for the harder content in the game. If you drift like a madman on a dungeon boss, why do you even care.

I do find it weird that some people act like collapsing combos is such a huge deal in terms of reducing button bloat but at the same time act like it's no big deal at all whenever they face pushback against the idea.
How is that insulting? My very first point was essentially agreeing that there is button bloat and that it can be solved. I just dont think combo collapse is the correct approach.

What actually takes effort, for people with or without disability alike, is setting up your hotbars in a way that works for you. A lot of people dont want to spend that effort and rarely can you make someone else do your hotbars for you because that's a highly personal thing.