To many abilities - piano playing must be reduced...

i would say the problem isn't that there are necessarily too many abilities, but that your ability to efficiently use them relative to the ui is the problem. Even with key bindings, my 2nd through 4th hotbars are crt/alt/shift +# bound, you're constantly looking at every hotbar to manage cd's etc. Even if you memorize what ability is bound to what key you're still focusing your attention away from the center of the screen. Long story short when you're able to throw all your hotbars in one location it will ease a lot of the issues.


That being said the number of abilities does seem to very considerably on a class by class basis. If you think jugg is bad, try going with an operative who has ranged/heals/and melee abilities to organize (even with an additional hotbar for cover).

Thats at least 60 keys. Thats nice, but you only can bund 48 ability.

The more you play the less you have to watch the bars. After some time you will know your < 15-20sec ablities if they are ready without checking it. You will only look for the 2-3min CDs.

Practice more. The only classes that require anything close to piano playing are Sentinel/Marauder.

It's the best thing about PvP. Get better. Get a G13 and a Naga.

You can also rebind ctrl + the hotkeys that you mentioned. That might help you out if you haven't done that already. There's also ` (I don't remember if you added that).

I don't think chess is a game for dumbed down idiots because it's not the same thing is it? Apples and Oranges sir, and that's your problem. You keep trying to compare this to nonsense that has no correlation at all. That's what I keep explaining to you, and you keep druming up new examples that have nothing to do with what we're talking about.

Chess is about mental gymnastics and strategy. It has nothing to do with reflexes, and unless you're playing timed it has nothing to do with reaction speed.

Also, I haven't told any stories at all. I'm simply explaining to you the reality that whatever medium you play your video game on has in the skill cap of the game.

I do, agree with you on the fact that it's up to them what their target demographic is. You're right, they appear to be alienating people who like to take games more seriously. They're dumbing down PVP achievements and raid content appears to be getting easier not harder (though I don't raid. This is just what I've heard in the circles I play in.) So through this lens, maybe you're right. Maybe in terms of the BW business model if they are trying to eliminate reflexes as a deciding factor in pvp then I would agree with you. They need to dumb down the controls and consolidate moves.

I would argue, that it's better for the game this way and it would be to the game's detriment if it ever wants to be taken seriously as a competitive game (which appears to be their goal with rated WZs)

You dont get it... I DONT want to be piano player. I will rather be PC player with mouse and comfy set of keybinds.

You don't get that you picked the wrong game.

Thats what I said 2times. This wont change in the game, he just dont get it.

perhaps. Yet i will wait and see if Bioware see the problem. If not i will move on indeed. Other mmorpg developers managed to avoid that problem, maybe Bioware will be succesfull too.