Quote Originally Posted by Raenryong View Post
I can guarantee that despite your claims of this game being just "mashing keys", you won't be optimal.
Of course not, this game does require some thought behind your actions. You have skill rotations, you need to move to avoid AoE and each player has a role to fulfil. The 'mashing keys' was a reference to the current FFXI where skill has been replaced with 100% TP spam with little to no regard for aggro or any kind of special combat mechanics. Even most bosses barely require much of a strategy beyond 'hit it harder', though they did add some nice ones which swap between absorbing physical and magical damage during the fight.

As for SATA, it did genuinely require a degree of teamwork. Monks would provoke mobs to pull aggro from the Ninja tank while the Thief SATA'd Viper Bite or better and the Black Mage used a magic burst. There's literally no such teamwork in modern FFXI battles, certainly not XP fights, and I daresay there isn't even anything on that level in FFXIV either. So to say it doesn't require skill to get the timing of that down only implies that everything since requires even less.