Most difficult DPS class to play?

[skaterger]

I believe some players are hugely exaggerating the difficulty of optimising blm dps while moving. They repeat is as fact without explaining what the difficulty is. It takes some practice but like all classes, because the mechanics of bosses are hugely scripted, once you memorize the fights it's just basically repeating the same thing. It can basically be broken down into the following steps

1. Can I totally circumvent moving totally? Notice how some blm stand away from plumes in titan ex, get assigned the least duties in t8, not stack for thermionic beam in t9 or leave it to other players to break vines in t6. For some reason it seems acceptable to do this which in itself mitigates many of their movement problems.

2. Make a macro for aetherial manipulation and use it when you need to move somewhere after finishing your cast

/macroicon "Aetherial Manipulation"
/ac "Aetherial Manipulation" <mo>

3. Can I use mana wall to avoid moving like Titan ex landslide? If can, use it.

4. If you know you need to move somewhere in a few seconds, try to save a Firestarter or thundercloud proc.

5. If the aforementioned does not proc, use scathe.

6. If I need to move somewhere for am extended period, i.e. shriek in turn 7, then swiftcast flare and transpose to get back mana

7. If I am in the middle of casting and need to move, can I get the cast off before moving? (Usually 2/3 of casting car but depends on your latency.)

So yes, I think blm is far from what people are making them out to be. What I will say however, is that blm suffers the biggest loss in dps if they screw up their rotation, for example having 5 mana short of blizzard 3 and having to stand around waiting for transpose. The basic rotation however, is terribly hard to screw up. This brings me to my next point. There are many more blms than smns, at least on my server, and many can't even do 300 dps on turn 8. Considering that there is little to no movement in that fight, it seems many blms can't even do their basic rotation of 4 to 5 buttons. That is probably why many think it's a hard class to play.

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Salty about getting out dpsed by a smn? Learn to play your class better. And it's hilarious you don't even have arcanist levelled. I rest my case.