Quote Originally Posted by FireMage View Post
Bringing crafters and gatherers which don't need to be rolling GCDs into the mix is extremely bad faith, be better than that. Now, yes PLD could drop Shield Bash (probably will in a month) and SAM is now 32. Now instead of cleaning actually useful abilities (Protraction, really? Yes let's cleave what SCHs use practically every opener. Or the great mits that are Aquaveil amd Exaltation) let's hit other stuff that actually needs it such as: The basic single target/AOE GCD heals, (this cleaves Cure1, Medica1, Physick [which should just in general be deleted from the game so it stops being a SMN meme] Benefic, and Helios) Summon Eos/Selene, (combine them, it defaults to Eos/and if you do it again it defaults to Selene) Undraw. You know those kinds of things
I did say we should combine Cure1/Cure2 and the equivalents, and Medica1/Medica2 and the AST equivalent above so we're on the same page there. The reason I mentioned Exaltation and co is because I never feel like I 'need' them. I use them becasue they're there, sure, but if they weren't there nothing would change, the tanks would still live through the TB like they do already. This tier they get a little bit less flak from me because of the DOTs but there were plenty of P4S runs where I just never bothered using Aquaveil/Exaltation because they were just surplus to requirements. But I can see the reasoning in keeping them.

Oh now I see, the reason I've got 33 binds on SAM is because I put an extra Shinten bind where Kaiten used to be, because muscle memory. MB for miscounting there. Still, you might not be 'rolling GCDs' as a Fisher, but for Big Fishing you're definitely on the clock and every second counts so I'd count it