Quote Originally Posted by FoxyAreku View Post
This line really bothers me about the OP, because it seems to imply that only people who play nonstop will be good at the rotations.

If you find the rotations in this game difficult or complex at all, please don't ever play any other MMO. The rotations in this game are actually mind-numbingly simple compared to most games in the genre, WoW pre-draenor comes to mind.
I play dragoon and may that job forever be an example of what one should never do when designing a rotation. The entire point of a rotation is predictability so that once it is learned, you can pay attention to what is going on around you, and to keep it under X number of button presses so the person doesn't need to reorient their hand in order to use an ability. The later is the reason we ended up having hardware manufacturers making peripherals: Because the software developers decided they arbitrarily wanted to add more buttons than the human hand is capable of reaching from one start position! Dragoon is both too many buttons and is unpredictable. There's no way to play it optimally without taking ones eyes off the screen. I haven't seen BLM yet, but I've heard that one does suffer a few similar issues.