Quote Originally Posted by Jirah View Post
How would this work for jobs with branching paths? The only jobs that are strictly 1-2-3 are tanks, RPR, MCH, and RDM laughable 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
Tbh looking over the footage again, It's hard to tell if they in fact did put a 123 on the "auto function". It appears to only apply to skills that have procs or buffs that allow them to be used. ie , Ikishoten -> Ogi , Devilment -> starfall dance, etc.

The only two examples that we were shown were viper and picto. But all of Vipers combo routes were done via buffs in the hud, not how typical combos are done, but more similar to procs. Pictos weaponskill combo was also a 3 stack buff.

So far from what I've seen Viper might not even have a typical 123 combo. The dual blade combo also wasn't a 123 , though they were placed on 123, the 1 gave a buff that opened up the other two abilities, when one of those abilities were hit they gave another buff that opened up other abilities, and their followups were via three skills that seemed similar to continuation on GNB

It is possible that they could move 123 combos to this system still, or that some 123s could be changed to be like Viper, but at this stage I'm inclined to believe that we don't have enough information and that the 123's might still be there, while proc based skills have been condensed to make more room.
The only reason to not use the system would be if you were scared of accidentally spending a proc/buff you didn't want to or something from what I can tell.

Overall it would seem like a good change to me.