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Ease of utilizing buffs from 5th job node skills
There are a ton of 5th job node skills which apply a buff to your character for ~180 seconds with a 180 second cooldown. As you level these nodes, the duration increases.
As an Angelic Buster, I have 6 of these skills (Speed infusion, Sharp eyes, Adv. blessing, Holy symbol, Hyper body, and Combat orders).
As these skills cannot be placed on a macro, this means I need 6 keys binded just for these buffs alone. I understand the difference in cooldown and the health cost.
I have 2 proposed solutions to this:
1. Simple: Allow these skills to be macro-able
2. Rework: Do not make these nodes capable of level ups.
Have a set duration for all (i.e. 200 seconds with the 180 second cooldown).
Have a single skill (called "Decent Enhancements" as an example), which when used, will provide your character all the buffs active in your V Matrix labeled as "Decent ...", and will do so in an all in one animation.
This will eliminate the need for multiple keys to be binded solely for "Decent ..." buffs, multiple keys to be pressed for buffing, and remove the need to have all animations stall your character.
Comments
Pets already do what you're asking for except better.
There is also no reason for you to be casting Hyper Body as bosses do percentage based damage and you shouldn't be dying to anything outside of a boss anyway.
Unless you are in the early game the same goes for MP, you should have enough MP that you won't need hyper body.
It is however worth it (for insanely small gains) to level up and equip this skill as it gives +6 all stat at level 26 or higher.
This realistically gives you one free pet slot for autobuffing, which most classes can work with if you manually buff maple warrior.
I believe the real problem is the lack of pet buff slots. If we gave each pet 3 slots to buff with instead of two you could easily fit the 5 decents + maple warrior that almost every class needs to use while keeping three free slots for whatever class specific buffs you have.
Pets are a good option, however not everyone has a pet that can auto buff, let alone on all their accounts.
We understand these nodes provide a skill for a set duration of 180 seconds which is across the board for "Decent" skills. Once attached to the V Matrix, this new decent skill can just append the newly added "Decent" skill's buff even with the leveling which adds + X all stats in some cases.
This is slow enough that players still have plenty of reason to just buy the pet skills instead of waiting without making it impossible for reboot players to gear up their pets outside of events that reward with pets that give auto buff.
Though Nexon would still need to increase the autobuff pet slots to counter the fact that 4 ~6 slots depending on class are used entirely on stuff that should be always on anyway.
There are a few solutions Nexon could go with, they just actually have to pick one and implement it.
Yes, Nexon reads the Forums, they don't read the Discord however.
True :')