Quote Originally Posted by Jirah View Post
I wouldnt say its on par with BRD and saying it has more depth than MCH really isnt saying much. But what are these nuances? Ive leveled my alt to 80 as DNC and it feels very one note even more so if your running solo supporting as a DNC is neat which puts it above BRD automatic nature
Most of it, naturally, comes with optimizations with your fellow party members. Syncing your buffs up with your partner to the GCD, dumping resources into raid buffs, prioritizing the right GCD (whether saber, proc, combo), weaving improv, maximizing curing on party, and so on. It shares a bit with BRD but for the most part BRD can ignore what other people are doing and just focus on proc RNG while rotating songs, which is similar to standard refreshes. However, since BRD is an 80 job and RNG on when it has resources it kinda ignores the party and does its own thing which takes away from the depth. MCH of course falls into that trap but it also doesn't help that it's a simple combo system so no variation whatsoever.

DNC has a high skill floor so it's hard to really do terrible on dancer and playing with parties that don't optimize means it can feel very boring, especially if there are no other buff jobs to throw resources into. But start bringing in optimized groups and buff jobs and all of a sudden DNC becomes a lot more fun with increased decision making and depth. On average, this would put it about on par imo, but with potential to have more depth the more you optimize.