The Buttons & You

[Valence]

I prefer to have less buttons that make me think of what I need to use next instead of having a set rotation of 30+ button presses. This game has too many strong damage abilities on a long cooldown that just make you feel sad when they don't direct crit. The main rotation of Dancer and Red Mage should be closer to what other jobs should strive for.

So much this. Not only the game has completely lost all resource management for most jobs, the pvp kits actually do provide what you're talking about. You don't have a set rotation. It's not a game of memory or muscle memory over scripted DDR, it's about making meaningful choices or mitigating bad situations with what resources you have at your disposal at that specific time. It's about using your brain and fast thinking or reacting under pressure. It's about identifying threats and the game situation at all times.

But it's not gonna happen in pve any time soon, it would just ask them to demolish entirely what their game is about once more, and probably even more than what they did in ShB.

Until you have to PvE the crystals in Shatter with the 1-1-1 combo and the 10-30s cool downs.

The PvP kits feel good because they were well designed for fighting players.


Moving that to PvE would feel miserable. And let's not get deluded into thinking that by condensing GCDs into less buttons, we will be able to have more in the jobs' kits. We won't, unless what they said about 8.0 actually materializes into something but I won't believe it until I see it.

Everybody in pvp hates crystal licking and they continue to serve us this somehow.

Moving that to pve would feel miserable because what's left of pve is miserable, as simple as that, and with a single uptime/dps metric and nothing else to play around. But it's interesting that we're making a parallel between ice licking and pve though. Says a lot about what pve is when it comes to job rotations.