XIV EW Job-Gameplay is Terrible... Why?

[strawberrycake]

You're obviously not reading what I'm writing so I don't see the point in continuing this farce.

Maybe i'm not properly reading or understanding what you're writing either and it's clear we're probably talking about different things.

Here's the best way to explain it to you, you can consolidate a Job like BRD to mashing 1 over and over and it would probably work, but it would kill the feed back of a tank job or melee job, and it would make playing a job like BLM disgusting, not all jobs do well in consolidation, adding more wouldn;t fix issues.

Since you mention MCH on the other hand, there is literally nothing left to salvage on that job. It has a 1-2-3 combo filler that serves no purpose besides keeping you busy pressing the same loop until the next carpal tunnel hypercharge. MCH still has a lot of room left on hotbars for the very reason that ShB rework left it so barebones that 2 bars were enough to fit everything... Until they added chainsaw and brought back the wrench more recently. This on its own is telling of the sad state of the job considering not only there is a lot of room left, but the base combo could be compressed and we wouldn't even be losing anything... We would actually go back to a 2 hotbar job because that's essentially what the 1-2-3 combo is hiding.

This is unique to ranged physical specificaly because SE doesn't even know what they want to do with BRD and MCH, they've both been gutted for DNC and thats been the consensus for a while now. Also most people, including myself don't even know why they reworked MCH the way they did due to it only needing around 3 more seconds on Wildfire. And in the end, all the simplicity and boringness, and easiness everyones tired of in content, all leads back to the change of when we burst in content. This wasn't an issue before EW, and is now an issue because of the one change that happned in EW, which is the 2 min burst system/meta.

So your point about adding in Job complexity by consolidating buttons and adding more, only stands because OF the 2 min meta existing, if it didn;t and we had the old system, no one would be having these complaints.

It's that simple.