Quote Originally Posted by Mithron View Post
I don't think you shouldn't speak because you're casual, I think you shouldn't speak because you're always wrong. Just giving you a taste of your own logical fallacies.

You never explained in great detail why DNC is harder than MCH. "Closed position changes" and "react to RNG" are not harder than MCH, so explain more.
I mean, the whole "FireMage is always trolling and wrong" thing is funny, sure, but in this case he is quite correct indeed. Just based on current fflogs statistics the Δ between 5th and 95th percentiles for the jobs are:

MCH: 9791 - 7968 = 1823 DPS (the lowest across all jobs).
DNC: 10205 - 8142 = 2063 DPS.
and just for funsies since there seems to be a complete agreement on how BLM is the gigabrain job in this thread: 10604 - 8064 = 2540 DPS (the highest across all jobs).

More than that, MCH has significantly lower spread between 50th and 95th percentiles compared to other jobs. In short, there is a single objectively correct way to play MCH - the entire rotation is a math equation and can be solved for a single correct answer. You just press the buttons in the exact order. It is likely possible to teach a talented monkey to execute. Similar to SMN, MCH optimization isn't hard, it simply has none. The only thing that separates about top 20% of all MCHs is damage variance, crit luck and gear.

Now, DNC has undeniably lost some of ShB complexity. Melee procs are gone, Flourish gives unique procs and Esprit generation from your GCDs is now static. But at the same time, addition of Tillana and especially 6.08 changes have (and I'm willing to bet absolutely unitentionally by SE) created a very curious case of 3.5 Standard Step rotation since SS is now weaker than every other GCD except the basic combo. Technical windows now require a bit of setup and thinking on the fly in regards to pooling procs and Esprit and actively making a decision to forego SS in a given window. It's not very complex, no, but it is definitely more variable than anything MCH can ever offer.