Quote Originally Posted by Ferrinus View Post

You are missing (deliberately ignoring?) the fact that a black mage has to make substitutions and contractions in their spellcasting sequence. They're not just casting the same spells in the same order over and over again. Your characterization of the job is manifestly wrong.
Agreed. This is why i believe the basic rotation is so simple. Its not designed to rotated through ad infinum in exactly the same order regardless of the fight like some other jobs are designed. If you remove timers then I really think you need to do a heavy redesign.

BLM is slightly different in this regard to other jobs and thats ok.