Endgame Content To Easy

[Subucnimorning]

I would say defilemancer in rift was a complicated rotation that involved lots of split second decision making based on a very long list of priorities. Played everything from eq1, wow, Aion, rift, ffxiv it was pretty much the only rotation I really had to work at to get down. The one button macro specs you speak of were in early rift, later on (especially in storm legion) most specs required a bit more work than that.

Also, instanced raiding was a necessity but it did kill open world competition completely which were some great times in raiding, really nothing is exciting in gaming like that any more.

[Horg]

I would say defilemancer in rift was a complicated rotation that involved lots of split second decision making based on a very long list of priorities. Played everything from eq1, wow, Aion, rift, ffxiv it was pretty much the only rotation I really had to work at to get down. The one button macro specs you speak of were in early rift, later on (especially in storm legion) most specs required a bit more work than that.

Also, instanced raiding was a necessity but it did kill open world competition completely which were some great times in raiding, really nothing is exciting in gaming like that any more.

True, there were a bunch of specs which could cut it down to 1-2 macro spams but not all of them. I did play and raid RIFT in vanilla (quit shortly after RoS / that crappy 10 man), went back to try Storm Legion and played a Pyrolock/Defilemancer. The rotation was a little difficult to learn at first, but at the time (not sure if it's true now) there was an Elementalist/Necro spec which spammed 1 macro that did equal damage. My Cleric Tank/Melee specs were actually able to be put into 1 macro. Early raiding was pretty bad in RIFT, but definitely better/more challenging than FFXIV. Greenscale was bugged for a long time, not exactly the instant KO wall that twintania is but close.