Did the game get too complicated, or am I just an idiot?

[Ayuhra]

Heavensward has been an odd beast for me. I have a love/hate relationship with it.

The world, story, atmosphere, characters, music and encounters are all great but the classes don't play as well for me anymore. Classes could have cumbersome rotations in 2.0 but now there are just enough new abilities that most of them have too much. For me Heavensward PLAYS worse than Realm Reborn. And I am a BLM, we arguable took one of the lesser face-fulls of new abilities. We're just...more immobile than ever. And a bit more clunky.

[seraseth]

Heavensward has been an odd beast for me. I have a love/hate relationship with it.
The world, story, atmosphere, characters, music and encounters are all great but the classes don't play as well for me anymore.

Same. I absolutely loved the story, I tore through it in no time, not because I was rushing to 60, but because I was enjoying it so much I didn't want to stop. The theme, the characters and oh man, the music was fantastic (except for library, the music was fine, but so didn't fit the feel of the place, was extremely jarring).

But I'm hating most of the class changes. I used to main blm, and actually quit playing it, because it's simply not fun anymore. Then I pushed several other jobs to 60 (painful grinding because I was trying to do it fast so that I could rejoin my friends playing together) trying to find one I could actually stand playing. I finally settled on brd, not because I love playing it, but because of what I tried, it was the most tolerable. I still constantly feel like I'm playing an alt though, because I only like it, not love it.

[Alahra]

For me Heavensward PLAYS worse than Realm Reborn.

I feel rather lucky, as NIN and MCH both seem to play fairly well (though I think NIN's timers need some slight adjustment, as Aeolian Edge can be hard to use in a number of situations now). But I can imagine a number of classes don't feel that way now, and I think it's unfortunate. They really should have gone with 3 Traits and 2 Abilities (as the pattern pre-50 would have suggested). We won't likely see any major overhauls until 4.0, though. Hopefully they can at least ease up on how restrictive some of the new priorities and timers are before them.