I’ll be honest, I’m having a pretty hard time learning the SMN rotation at 80. I played SMN in 2.0, and in 3.0 I technically played, but some real life stuff prevented me from endgame. In 4.0 I decided to make the jump to RDM, which felt like refreshing.

With the addition of Phoenix, I really wanted to get back to my roots. That being said it’s a really complicated job. The opener is absolutely insane. So many timers to keep track of. I feel like once you’ve weaves in the egi assaults it calms down a bit, and the trance periods help, but between trances we have a lot to do.

I think some small changes they could make:

Double the potency of egi assault 1 + 2, increase their recast timers to 1 min each, but also double the damage and have them each give 2 ruin IVs.

Roll summon Bahamut into DWT so it feels more similar to Phoenix.

Increase the timer of energy drain to 1 min and have it give us 4 Aetherflow stacks.

These small changes would help with the oGCD bloat a little bit