[Petition] Have Naoki Yoshida Play Healer and take off the DPS Gloves for a year.

[Martynek]

Those optimizations are barely optional. They are necessary for the job to perform at a reasonable level. Without them, your burst fails to align with raid cooldowns. This results in catastrophically lowered damage. The difference is significant enough that you become a hindrance to your team. [...] Whether or not the "optimized" rotation is intended is irrelevant. The fact we have to play the job in such a cancerous way to perform well is an issue.

Like I said, I like the janky rotation. It's fun to solve these things. "My fight or flight lasts just long enough to fit in an extra GCD? How can I best make use of that?" "My gcd loop is a bit longer than 60 seconds, what can I drop and where to help it align better?" etc. You see minor issues and learn how to overcome them to get the most out of the job. I don't mean any offense, but if you dislike the current Paladin rotation, have you considered playing a different job, and seeing if something else is more to your liking?

[Absimiliard]

Like I said, I like the janky rotation. It's fun to solve these things. "My fight or flight lasts just long enough to fit in an extra GCD? How can I best make use of that?" "My gcd loop is a bit longer than 60 seconds, what can I drop and where to help it align better?" etc. You see minor issues and learn how to overcome them to get the most out of the job. I don't mean any offense, but if you dislike the current Paladin rotation, have you considered playing a different job, and seeing if something else is more to your liking?

I can't help but feel you are missing an important point here. Your enjoyment of a job does not mean things about it that are objectively flawed shouldn't be regarded as such. Just like acknowledging those flaws does not mean I am saying I don't like the job. Though, at this point I rarely get to use it because of its performance. I'm always pigeonholed into playing Gunbreaker, which my wrists are really beginning to hate.

[Martynek]

I can't help but feel you are missing an important point here. Your enjoyment of a job does not mean things about it that are objectively flawed shouldn't be regarded as such. Just like acknowledging those flaws does not mean I am saying I don't like the job. Though, at this point I rarely get to use it because of its performance. I'm always pigeonholed into playing Gunbreaker, which my wrists are really beginning to hate.

If your group is making you play a job you find painful to play, I highly suggest talking to them about it, or if necessary, finding a new group. That doesn't sound like a healthy agreement. The "viability" of each job should never be an insurmountable barrier to your ability to clear, even in the hardest content.

That aside, I do not believe that the awkwardness of Paladin's optimised rotation is "objectively flawed". I think that there are flaws in Paladin's design, but I don't think that's one of them.