About Reaper.

[Ronduwil]

you nailed the bad that's for sure
it only flows so well because they made it so basic that a squirrel could probably figure it out

Why is this a bad thing? What is the upside of an overly complex rotation? Please don't tell me that it exercises our intellect because I know that:

1. Most serious players don't bother to figure out optimal rotations themselves. They go to The Balance Discord server or Icy Veins or some other third party source that lays it out for them anyway.
2. You don't want to play with someone who is still struggling to puzzle out the proper rotation. When you queue into a dungeon or join a Party Finder raid, you want everyone in the group to already be pumping.
3. No matter how complex or simple the rotation is, you know the serious players are just going to park in front of a target dummy practicing it until the muscle memory is so deeply ingrained that it requires no thought whatsoever.

Complex rotations don't add to the game difficulty for serious players. They just punish casual players who want to just play the game without having to invest hours of time into a throwaway activity that's often made obsolete with every new expansion. SE realizes this, and that's why they keep "dumbing down" the game. Players often reminisce about the incredible difficutly of coin-operated arcade games back in the early days of computer gaming. What's not often mentioned is the fact that the controls for these super hard games were typically one multidirectional stick and one or two buttons. The idea that a game has to have 16-button combos to be difficult and compelling is ridiculous.