Quote Originally Posted by Aco505 View Post
Someone wrote a post about it here: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5925792
Just counting raw numbers of total abilities is completely meaningless. Even looking at that thread, you can see the person making the claim is counting extremely unimportant abilities. When someone is talking about button bloat, Leg Sweep is simply not equivalent to True Thrust or anything along those lines. You can have an extra 20 buttons placed in random locations around your screen and it doesn't matter in the least if they never need to be pressed.

If you look at actual parse data, DRG is generally at the top of the CPM list along with GNB. NIN, and to a lesser extent BRD, is usually above those but their CPM is inflated with shortened, repeated GCD abilities and high haste making them hard to compare to other jobs. If you actually play DRG you'll know that their ability usage is spread out greatly among the abilities that DRG has. That is to say, they do not have any abilities that simply get repeated very quickly to fill up the rotation. The real analysis, then, would be to look at the buttons that each job would ideally press in a 1-minute period and count the number of unique abilities. Given the high CPM of the job with the less frequent repeated usage of the abilities, I'm confident that DRG would be near, if not at, the very top of that list, marking them as having the highest actual button bloat.