Quote Originally Posted by Azlith View Post
I don't see any evidence to support this with regards to this game. I've done a lot of PF of savage, EX and unreal (and a tiny bit of pf ulti) and I don't believe I've ever seen anyone complain about non-standard rotations nor have I ever seen anyone call someone out on playing standard. Its called standard for a reason, that reason being that the vast vast vast majority of players play that rotation. In the case of samurai especially I would guess that over 95-98% of the people who play this job don't even know that ad-hoc rotations exist, virtually everyone plays standard. The balance discord doesn't even mention the existence of ad-hoc. Of those that do know ad-hoc is a thing most of them don't even care enough to play non-standard because its simply not worth trying to learn for them, the damage increase just isn't worth the effort seeing as standard is more than good enough. Again, my experience leads me to believe that there are hardly any people out there worried about how much damage they're losing or how much damage their party members are losing due to not playing standard on any job and in any content.
??????? People don't complain about their job design in game typically, they're busy playing the game and don't want to be a buzzkill. Here is someone posting on the forums saying they don't like non-standard rotations being optimal.

That said, anyone can throw out arbitrary numbers based on feelings. Let me give it a try. I would say that 99.99% of players don't like ad hoc sam being optimal.