Quote Originally Posted by Aana View Post
This is true of every job that doesn't have an 'rng' element that affects their rotation (Brd, Rdm for example) or deals with RNG from other players like healers (did the monster crit the tank? Needs different cure. Did stupid DPS stand in the fire? Guess I have to cure more. Etc).
RNG isn't exactly the same on each job. BRD has 2 DoT ticks every 3 seconds for song effects and spams Heavy Shot for Straighter Shot procs, RDM uses Verthunder/Veraero every other GCD, MNK can get Meditation stacks from every GCD. WAR gets a huge chunk of damage from Fell Cleave which is a much smaller portion of WAR's GCDs/total casts. It's like flipping a coin, if you only do it 5 times you could get 4 tails but if you do it 100 times you'll probably be much closer to 50% tails. A DoT or autoattacks ticking 150+ times in a fight are probably going to have less variation between runs than a GCD used 35-40 times.