Originally Posted by
Quor
I don't play MNK, so this is coming from an outside perspective when I say this. First off, I get where you're coming from, and I understand it. Secondly, I get where OP is coming from, and I understand it. The optimal thing isn't always the fun thing, and skills exist to be used, so you can't blame people for wanting to use them. Furthermore, plenty of things were considered consensus over the history of mankind. Many of them were wrong but that didn't stop a lot of people from agreeing with them. Not to say that OP is right and that the Balance folks are wrong, just that the argument of "lots of people agree with this" is not an argument. The data helps of course, but part any statistical or scientific analysis is to not discount possibility, and that means exploring every avenue. Theory is great but it's just theory. If someone doesn't go through and try this sort of thing out then no one will ever know the truth of it's efficacy. Even if all it does is prove the "null" hypothesis (that is to say, the standard MNK rotation is the best) then that's valuable in and of itself simply for the boundary that's been established via the conceptual exploration.