Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[...]How do people see this from an outside perspective when they watch a SMN vs a RDM in group?

Speaking strictly from job choices? It pretty much boils down to the effort required to play at average degree. SMN is a low skill floor AND skill ceiling job. Rotation is set on stone. Mobility is comparable to a physical ranged DPS. Hit all the shiny buttons, and voila everything comes back up naturally every 60s. It's hard to do 'badly' on SMN. Which, at the same time it makes the job extremely easy to notice when mistakes are made such as:

1. Searing Light popping anywhere not in Bahamut? Exception to Phoenix because double SMN often does this.
2. Swift'ed Slipstream when there's no need for movement or to catch buff windows?
3. Phoenix Enkindle targeted at themselves instead of tanks who usually benefit more?
4. No "Aetherflow II" icon after phoenix phase during boss encounters?
5. A lot of Ruin III casts at lv86+?
6. Still getting hit often despite all of that mobility?

RDM just have to work harder to achieve similar degree of output, and I want them to know that I appreciate them for their effort.

Of course, like Fyrebrand mentioned, there are probably plenty other contributing factors. Friendly, chatty, fun, cooperative, etc... or if they're like me, often forgetting to comm before we bolt out of duties lol.