Quote Originally Posted by Draxxion View Post
The issue with what you descibe Nihility is the time it takes to cast all that, cooldowns, and cost. Bane = Aethetflow and cooldown so not spammable and also potentially heavily nerfed in Stormblood. Shadowflare = right now cast time, but Stormblood it had a potential 60 second cooldown. Painflares = cooldown, potentially 5 seconds in Stormblood, and Aetherflow. Deathflare = only in Dreadwyrm and at/near end of it. Bahamut = needing to have gone through two previous dreadwyrms.

That all takes time, set up, and aetherflow which you only get 3 to work with till aethetflow is on cooldown. RDM just has to cast and has zero set up and it just costs mana.
You're greatly overstating the complexity of SMN AoE. You do have to hit more than a couple of buttons, but by no means it is anything difficult. RDM has Death Blossom and a weak Katon basically. It's going to have an AoE rotation as boring as NIN's was.