Has anyone quit healing?

[ty_taurus]

Honestly, I would have said WHM/WAR are like SMN, BLM is more like SCH, and RDM is more like SGE. And it's funny, but to this day, I don't find GNB to be the hard one. I'd more say DRK is, but maybe that's the "seems more complex than it is". I also find SGE easier than SCH or AST...

I didn't use SMN because something that seems widely agreed upon is that it feels incomplete and has not reached the standards many former SMN players and DPS players in general hold for the role--not reaching DNC's level of complexity, which is otherwise viewed as the easiest DPS job. Given how the job was essentially reanimated from the ground up in EW, I'd consider it an educated guess to assume that EW SMN is really meant to something of a "clean canvas" to build out of in future expansions. Now I won't say that 7.0 SMN will be the new NIN or anything, or be as complex as it was in ShB and prior, but I just don't know what that landscape will look like.

Meanwhile, BLM is actually not a complex job in a vacuum and has one of the easiest rotations, I would say on the level of DNC. Where BLM's difficulty comes in though is that while it's not the immobile turret it was once upon a time, a big part of BLM optimization comes from fight knowledge, or in other words, knowing how to effectively use its mobility resources--Triplecast, Thundercloud procs, Between the Lines. It's core rotation is really just:

Blizzard III > Blizzard IV > Paradox > Fire III > Fire IV > Fire IV > Fire IV > Paradox > Fire IV > Fire IV > Fire IV > Despair > Repeat. Keep your DoT up, use your Xenoglossys, maybe extend this an extra Fire IV > Despair if you have Manafont up, and that's the core of your rotation.