Quote Originally Posted by Mayhemmer View Post
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You're asking that the game designers remove the possibility of you making an unforced error in gameplay. On RPR, if you choose to generate Soul Reaver stacks, you are committing your next GCD(s) to spend those on positionals. That should be muscle memory. If you commit to those GCDs and the boss jumps, or if you disengage, then that was a mistake and you will lose dps for it. It's not a particularly difficult check, but it is a check nonetheless. Allowing actions that could be used as placeholder GCDs would let you evade the damage loss for poor judgement.

There are plenty of jobs that require you to think before you commit. NIN's Raiju is another such example. It's really just a check of whether you're thinking and planning several GCDs in advance.

I think if you're routinely losing Soul Reaver stacks on RPR, then your primary focus should be on improving your own play before anything else. Everyone asks why gameplay simplifications are happening across all jobs, and posts like that are the reason why. Rather than accepting the discomfort of failure and working on self-improvement, people try to change the jobs to compensate for their mistakes.