Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
You must not do higher level content if you believe the game is just button mashing. Understanding your rotation not in general, but every fight you take on and adjust to, is extremely important and makes or breaks those DPS/tank/heal checks. Also, required more team work? Game has just as much team work.

Both games are strategic and challenging in their own right. You can prefer one or the other, but don't pretend that one is just a slam your head on the keyboard easy. If you want to make that assumption, then I can easily say that in FFXI just get 100TP and Tachi: Gekko, its that easy. I don't believe that, but you can easily generalize that game also.
Button mashing to me = non-stop pressing of buttons, regardless if there is a rotation or not. In XIV you are expected to keep up your rotation and fill spare moments with off-GCD abiliites while dancing around to non-stop AoEs. This is not fun to me, but as I said, everyone's taste varies.