What is this class design of Dancer?

[WaterShield]

I was not talking about the class itself and the merit of having a raid spot, I also aware that SE was smart enough to give them flourish, not decaying feathers and esprit. My line of thinking was the same reason I stopped using bard and move to SAM/NIN, and I not a hardcore raider by any stretch of the imagination, when I was learning BRD I notice how sometimes I totally annihilated the savage dummy and others I was failing by a good chunk (probably one of the reasons barrage now grant refulgent arrow use).

For me is not hard to imagine that players with a very competitive mindset will probably not find the three layers of RNG (on top of stats like critical) that attractive.

PS: This is nitpicking I know (and you are right on the rest of the stuff), but the damage buff for dancer is not a real "buff". You are doing the supposed damage when you have it and less if you fail to keep it up, like the old "X" damage vulnerabilities.

I see, so yes I definitely misunderstood what you were originally going for. I don't think it will be difficult to keep up the damage buffs, but I do concede that this is largely dependent on the player (mainly timing of technical step) and others may find it challenging. I cannot see the standard step being difficult though given that it is basically a 2 button mudra that's up every 30 seconds and the buff from it lasts for 1 minute.

It sounds like you are mainly saying that it doesn't do consistent personal damage, which is true. BLM or SAM would be more attractive if that was what someone was looking for.

[Driavna]

I see, so yes I definitely misunderstood what you were originally going for. I don't think it will be difficult to keep up the damage buffs, but I do concede that this is largely dependent on the player (mainly timing of technical step) and others may find it challenging. I cannot see the standard step being difficult though given that it is basically a 2 button mudra that's up every 30 seconds and the buff from it lasts for 1 minute.

It sounds like you are mainly saying that it doesn't do consistent personal damage, which is true. BLM or SAM would be more attractive if that was what someone was looking for.

Oh no, I don't think it's difficult, IMO the class itself is very accessible for everyone. The hard part, and this is true for all, is a proper use of CDs and resources management. Also, by layers of RNG I mean 50% for one proc, then 25% for another and finally something else I don't remember now for Fan III.

I just wanted to clarify this part.