Quote Originally Posted by GrumbleBeard View Post
Personally I would love to never have to spam form shift in between every encounter.
...but isnt that - in some way - something that makes the job more intresting or challenging to play?

I dont play any of those jobs enough to actually say, but right now I'm leveling Samurai and its very, very easy to keep up Jinpu and Shifu (and I imagine its something a career samurai doesnt even has to think about), but its still something I need to take into consideration. Same when I was leveling blackmage: Yes, its easy enough by now to keep it up (thankfully, having this one-second garce period or whatever it was was painful), but its still something you have to do if you want to optimise your gameplay.
Its not super difficult, but its something you have to do - and if you fail to do that, you get punished.

To me this sounds like it would make jobs even more streamlined and the jobs in questions easier - which I dont think is necessary or even good... if you dont like keeping an eye on keeping up your buffs, there are jobs that dont require that and personally I like that variety. Personally I've also never really been a fan of stances - feels super boring to just turn your stance on at the beginning of a fight and then never worry about it again. Why even have the stance then? (As a paladin main I can see why tanks have it - so that you can have an offtank without a stance, but damn its unengaging to just hit shield oath at the start of an instance and then... its done.)
And, as you said yourself: During normal gameplay its not that difficult (anymore) - but that doesnt mean we just need to toss it alltogether...