Idk why people think WoW has these complex rotations for healers, they don’t. They don’t even have more skills/abilities than the healers in ffxiv. The same complaints about gutted healing kits and dumbed down rotations/homogeneous classes/specs is all over the WoW forums too. There’s only a couple specs in the entirety of WoW that have as complex as a rotation as maybe BLM. I can always tell the people who don’t actually play WoW now because they say “gcd” is why ffxiv is worse. WoW has a gcd too, it just gets more haste buffs, but you don’t have ogcd’s to break up the boredom.

The truth is mmorpg tab targeting rotations aren’t as exciting now. The devs try adding mechanics to make gameplay more interesting, but we all know after you learn the routine of the mechanics it becomes easy. It’s the same in WoW and Ffxiv. The difference in WoW is that mobs scale with more dmg/health as you gear up and do mythic+. They add affixes, which is basically challenge mechanics in the same dungeons. I hope the new criterion dungeons are a middle ground for people looking for challenges.

Anyway, there are more players playing ffxiv than before regardless of where they refugee from. More people means more personalities to deal with. Some of them are bound to be jerks.