PSA: Provoke and You.

[ReiMakoto]

Maybe I'm just weird, but doing the super-optimal robotic rotation over and over again is rather boring. I don't even always dash, either, sometimes I do throw the shield as I run in. *shrug* Either way, it's duty finder... and no I'm not saying that as a license to be lazy, but sometimes just mixing things up a bit, is more fun than being robotic all the time. I'm not saying that we should just mash random buttons and not even pay attention to combos and rotations, but there's enough variance to where you can do reasonably well, comfortably clear the content, but also mix things up a bit anyhow.

If I wanted "must be at 100% optimal performance 100% of the time" I'd go to Savage or Ultimate.

I'd disagree here, especially with the class mentioned here pld. Outside of niche high end optimisation is there is basically a correct way to play a job, and you'd be surprised how much your damage tanks by "mixing things up a bit" especially on more rigid classes. Obviously some jobs have more free form elements and rng, but even then there is generally an easy optimal flowchart. Obviously its all "enough" to clear df content, but thats because DF content is almost completely braindead with non existant dps checks, imo making the effort to do better and play correctly in this content is simply a common courtesy showing that you respect other peoples time.

Edit:

Commenting on my sig, i need to update it, savage clear rates have gone up considerably since then as the patches/ year has rolled on, as has ultimate, tragically BLU blu is still down in the garbage where it belongs :P, also it doesn't get a Duty finder at all, not just later on, the BLU log is a party finder interface, you still need to manually find people.

Also can you tell me what changes have been made specifically to cater to savage players? Only thing I can think of their is maybe the AST rework, but even then calls for that came from all levels of play not just savage