Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
More buttons doesn't means more skill, look at AoE/Single Target variants. What's the decision behind "should I press X or Y?", the answer is always obvious if you know math and how the games works.
But more button can also means more execution skill. Compare MCH wildfire from HW/SB to Wildfire from ShB.

As far as I know, raiding in WoW is a gear check, not mechanic+dps check. Crusade classic was cleared a few days after release.
No matter if you press 1 at the same speed, players will have different outcomes based on their gear. Gear is easy to access in XIV.

People who find the button number tedious just don't have any button management skill.
It's up to them to better manage their hotbar, not to the others to reduce their fun.

Believe me if you were to spam 1, you would first be relieved but then bored really, really hard.
WoW and FFXIV are challenging in different ways.

If we had the WoW/ESO number of buttons in FFXIV this game would be easy. The choreography would become your main focus and that's something you can quickly get down.

If WoW had FFXIV's number of buttons with the odd 2 minute long rotation then that game would be absurdly hard.

I'm imagining doing something like Heroic Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void with a Summoner rotation and it's giving me a migraine.