Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Colt47]

simple mechanics = do your job
advanced mechanics = do your job + more stuff

hint: learn your class, do not think about your actions, let it become your second nature and do it on instinct, then you will have time for the advanced things.
Then learn the fight, and with enough practice you will make it. What you want to do is do a half-ass job at both and get the rewards of the full commitment.

With people playing multiple roles "doing your job" is often the more challenging thing to pick up than the fight mechanics. This is especially true in Final Fantasy XIV where people have multiple end game jobs that they may play. There doesn't seem to be many "relearning" ramps for return players.

I mean, would you say it's harder to learn not to do an action during Turn 6 Raffelasia Death Bouquet, breaking vines, and going to the front of the boss when you are about to be devoured or to master the dragoon/monk damage rotation to the point of consistently doing maximum dps?