Button Bloat

[Ceetee]

Imagine you are a PLD. After using your 1-2 AoE combo, 2 targets are left and 1 is about to die before your next GCD is available. It is wiser to just use Holy Spirit instead of Holy Circle, correct? With your proposition, I have to toggle a stance so that I get to use my ST ability. Yes you cut off extra buttons but you have introduced, not complexity, but unecessary button presses.


I am a GNB and my healer is currently KO'ed. Brutal Shell combo is kinda good and will greatly improve my survivability.. but with this, I still have to do 2 extra GCDs so I can refresh my barrier.. Same with PLD and DRK when recovering MP.

This is such an incredibly bad faith reading. I am talking about changes to the game, things that happen ever expansion. Yes your rotation is going to change. "MY DPS WOULD SUFFER IN THESE SUPER SPECIFIC NICHE SITUATIONS!" You dont even know if those combos will continue to function the same way in 2 months. Saying we can't have better designed systems on the off chance it makes you play slightly less optimally while your healer is dead is absurd.

SCH already has that. Emergency Tactics, Deployment Tactics, Recitation. These abilities do nothing on their own but they modify the properties of other abilities.. I mean, every caster/healer has it = Swiftcast. The only acceptable increase in button count is for abilities that does this.

Literally so unrelated to what I was saying that I don't understand what your point is. ET, DT and Recitation are not traits, they are skills. Swiftcast functions identically on every single caster. That is not what I was saying even remotely.

I was talking about Traits, those things we get on some levels where we don't get a new action, but which modify existing actions. Having Job specific traits that modify role actions would give more actions to each job and further cement their identity, without increasing the number of buttons we use.

For example, each tank getting a unique modification to Rampart.