Quote Originally Posted by Syzygian View Post
What people are trying to explain is that Huton and GL have several seconds of leeway to handle mechanics, BotD has *1*, 2 if you're packing a GCD that is less than 2.40 seconds. Neither MNK or NIN has to expend the duration of their buff intelligently to maximize DPS, they just have to keep it up. Barring that yeah, lots of buttons to push, positionals, procs, dealing with mechanics, yes, all jobs have that. But none of them have 600 potency riding on their ability to properly sacrifice uptime of their buffs. That is unique to DRG and in the extremely dodge-heavy/mechanic-heavy HW content it is extremely difficult.
Clearly just a DRG trying to make his job sound difficult, but I suggest you try playing the new monk before talking. GL3 upkeep is significantly more difficult due to the instant application and we don't even get to relax during downtime. With a low GCD and constant positionals MNK is still a far more active job.