Quote Originally Posted by Clavaat View Post
A rabbithole no one jumped into. Ya, you had a lot of spells, but 90% of them you never touched because they would never land, weren't helpful, or weren't MP efficient. MB's were ok, but not that complex. The charts made it look much harder than it was. Just boiled down to waiting for other DD's doing their thing then hitting your 1 spell. Also, to be fair to FFXIV here, that picture fails to mention the MP upkeep mechanic (umbral Ice), enhanced ability procs, and other tricks you can do.
How much you used was completely dependent on what type of game play you chose for yourself especially when people choose to just go with the flow or experiment with things and also what content you chose to do and what content you chose to ignore but that is beside my point so let me explain please.

My point is the deeper your rabbit hole is the more variety of gameplay options are mathematically possible for the gameplay designers and the battle designers to implement in the game and the a wide spectrum from simple battles to a very high complex battles that challenge your mind before challenging your button pressing speed (and so some players also challenging their internet ping speed). FFXIV simple and shallow gameplay mechanics can only allow for simpleton battle mechanics that get shuffled from fight to fight.

Quote Originally Posted by Clavaat View Post
.......Also what does this have to do with the OP? This thread makes no sense at all...
Well the OP advocating "hardcore servers" and what I'm saying is that this game is incapable mathematically of "hardcore" content and so incapable of "hardcore" servers.