I'm bored when I heal because I need more complex DPS rotations

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

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Tbf, it was merely an assumption made from reading old iteration of these jobs & their intricacies without firsthand experience, so I might not be making a good judgment.

Looking back at old SCH, (CMIIW) they had Bio I at 18s, Bio II at 30s, Miasma at 24s, crossed Aero I at 18s, and Shadowflare at 30s. On top of that, those were the time when Cleric Stance merely swaps INT/MND back & forth (to my understanding), which means any dps spells cast not under Cleric would’ve just tickle the boss. After that, I took a brief look on how HW encounters looked like, I’m like… “Unless I’m seeing a live recorded gameplay, I will never believe anybody who claimed they can play this old SCH ‘perfectly’ consistently all the while responding to random mistakes.”—because I think that seems impossible to pull off.

Will I blame them for messing up their dps rotation? No, I can’t—I won’t. That monstrosity of a rotation is just unrealistic to pull off. I will not ‘expect’ them to even dps ‘decently’ either because how punishing mistakes were. I find such concern that scares healers from even turning on their Cleric Stance is such a valid, very relatable concern. Not to mention the Trashologification of nuke cast time never existed back then, we all had to sit still and cast for 2.5s!!

And that’s where I think where the beauty lies: because it was impossible to perfect, it turns into “I will try my best to mitigate any potential losses and see where this will take me.”

Today? See those “Why do you cast Medica II???”-meme. See those 1 2 1 1 1 ‘rotation’. It’s so easy that we went toward “How do you even mess up a 1 button rotation???”. Unsurprisingly, we’re also seeing similar phenomenon on today: BLM & SMN. BLM messing up and making mistake? ”That’s fine, they will learn, they had it hard”, etc. SMN make mistake? “How do you mess up with 89% mobility per minute? How can you even miss casting Addle with that many weaving space/instants/not much to weave? Etc.”

I’m not even asking for ‘red dps complexity’ rotation or wanting the janky cleric stance back. But I also don’t want this craptastic 1 2 1 1 1. I want the middle ground.