QoL and reducing number of the buttons suggestion

[CidHeiral]

What's hard is that you have one combo at 123, another at 145, two extra skills that you do post combo at 67, then aoe combo at 8910 and those are all just buttons you use all the time

You don't consolidate combos because 123 is hard, you do it because reaching for Ctrl+9 and alt+5 during burst is super annoying

This entire thread is just people outing themselves as having no clue how to bind their abilities.

[Saraide]

This entire thread is just people outing themselves as having no clue how to bind their abilities.

That's probably true. Fixing your keybinds honestly makes all the difference between a job feeling awful to play and being smooth sailing but that takes a bit of time and effort because it's not something someone else can do for you all that well. I know it from myself aswell: I'm not a melee dps player so I havent put much thought into keybinds there which makes them bad which in turn makes those jobs not fun to play.

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Assuming you move with WASD, that's why outside 1 to 6, you'd keybind your ~, Tab, Q, E, R, T, F, G, Z, X, C, V, B, F1-F4 and add Alt/Shift/CTRL modifier, whichever you feel most comfortable to & depending on their importance.

I went scorched earth and move exclusively with holding both mouse buttons. More easily accessible keyboard buttons for me.

[Astrus]

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Fixing your keybinds honestly makes all the difference between a job feeling awful to play and being smooth sailing but that takes a bit of time and effort because it's not something someone else can do for you all that well. I know it from myself aswell: I'm not a melee dps player so I havent put much thought into keybinds there which makes them bad which in turn makes those jobs not fun to play.
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I have set up my keybinds so the majority of Jobs within an archetype use about the same layout, which is both a blessing and a curse.
On the one hand, muscle memory means I don't need to spend a lot of conscious thought on where abilities are when I swap Jobs making for a smooth transition.
On the other hand, it really makes you realize how homogenized and samey a lot of the Jobs feel.

Which, I suppose, is one of the issues with pruning abilities. If you prune all the identity out of a Job to replace it with bland "does damage" oGCDs on a 30/60/120s timer is it really an improvement? I could do with less of those and more interesting abilities even if the end result is less buttons to push overall.

[CelestiCer]

This entire thread is just people outing themselves as having no clue how to bind their abilities.

Summary of the thread is like a group surrounding an unseasoned Chicken, debating on how to cook it at maximum comfiness while making it optimally bland...

- Let's boil it in water! / Great idea!
- Seasoning & Frying sounds like effort
- Lets microwave it! Requires 1 button "

Or people did read your post, and didn't agree to it ?

I am a Samurai player only, I did disagree with it yes

[Merrigan]

Summary of the thread is like a group surrounding an unseasoned Chicken, debating on how to cook it at maximum comfiness while making it optimally bland...

- Let's boil it in water! / Great idea!
- Seasoning & Frying sounds like effort
- Lets microwave it! Requires 1 button "



I am a Samurai player only, I did disagree with it yes

I play Sam a lot (my "main" on my real char), and same. But to second other posts, I get the impression that many people just don't have the right reflexes to bind the keys. Between ctrl, shift, alt potentially (even if I find it rather impractical, personally), mouse buttons, the keys that are accessible (French keyboard here, so e, s, f, t, r, w etc etc), and of course the classic 1-2-3 (etc)... The possibilities are endless.

In fact, the problem is more the screen clutter than the blinds themselves.