Quote Originally Posted by Fayto View Post
No, it is the hardest of the three melee DPS. Monk and Ninja are tons easier than Dragoon. Also, Dragoons can't come close to us Monks unless we're bad and they play perfectly. Also that is the thing, Dragoon doesn't get rewarded for perfect play. Ninja and Monk gets their power for free, Dragoon has to work for it and still don't deal near DPS.
You're dead wrong, Ninja is the hardest. I can say that after getting to level 46, where all the Ninjutsu skills are fully open and the last real attack on GCD is added. You have 3 different attack combos, one of which being a DoT, one being a slashing defense debuff (and healing potency drop), and the last being straight up damage. Add into that Ninjutsu, of which you have a total of 6 different skills and 1 of which must always be up in order to help maximize DPS (and thus have to reuse every 3rd Ninjutsu usage). Ninjutsu in general is always off GCD so it's going to be used between moves every 20s, sometimes the command lasting long enough to where you could have gotten another GCD move in (but you can't, since it messes up the Ninjutsu). So that's 3 GCD combos and 6 off GCD usable moves, almost all of which are useful (2 sadly get outclassed easily). Try pulling out the correct combinations for maximum DPS without a guide, it's going to get ridiculously hard (plus Ninjutsu is easily messed up on).

Compare that to the 2 damage combo rotations for DRG, and you're telling me DRG is the hardest? You're delusional. MNK would be easiest, DRG middle ground, NIN hardest. That's from me having leveled all 3 of the classes, one of which I main (MNK).