Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
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Yeah, you aren’t forced to but you might as well be from all the complaining in the Tales thread and from others who I have encountered in game. If you aren’t playing optimally, you are trash is pretty much the gist of what I get from players. So I’m always trying to dps and use instaheals before using any hard cast heals and stuff, but at least WHM is easy enough that I can do that. BLM is too complex, rotation or not and RDM you really need to know what you are doing and memorize how to optimally use your mana bars else your dps is going to suffer for it. I tried doing SSS back in SB since people wanted me to help them do ex and savage content on RDM but no matter how hard I tried I could never beat the dps requirements for o1s.

I have cognitive and memory problems when it comes to patterns and spatial awareness and stuff, so stuff like e12n gives me lots of problems and all I can do is just follow what everyone else is doing because I just cannot for the life of me memorize what the patterns are and the aoes are way too fast to escape so I’m usually kissing the floor there. Again, what I like with WHM is it’s simplicity. I don’t have to worry about a rotation. Big mob pack? Holy. No? Glare. Do I have a lily up? Have I used three yet? That’s it. If I have to start worrying about a meter management thing or having to remember to use more than Holy or Glare and start doing a pattern to optimize my dps is when I will start getting lost and not be a able to play optimally which ofc will lead to up slow runs which will lead to oh, that healer is trash, vote kick and oops, can’t progress n game now cuz the class is no longer easy to play and no one wants to play with someone who can’t play their class.