Quote Originally Posted by kurkee View Post
This feels a lot more grandiose than the reality of playing PCT in all current content. You kinda just see what's happening right now and decide if you're going to prep or not. You can even be caught out and use your damage neutral instant cast tools to slip away. You can even just not use those and smudge a quarter of the arena's length without thinking about it. As someone that does play picto and loves it, I'll be the first to trivialize it. It's basically uncontested.
You are contesting an argument that doesn't exist. I believe you think Ggwppino said that keeping uptime on casters (or PCT if you prefer) is hard and complex so you chimed in to say "No, I think it's easy".

Thing is, that's not the point at all. You can't bring PCT to EX1, press skills in a random order every pull and expect to do completely fine every single time. You learn the fight and you adapt your rotation to the fight as needed. It's something that every non-phys ranged job has to do - to various degrees - because the whole point of (current) phys ranged design is that there is no friction at all in keeping 100% uptime (which is why their mobility tax exists).

It doesn't matter if you have found keeping uptime on PCT so far easy, hard, something in between, braindead or the hardest thing you have ever done in your life: you still had to take those decisions which is something a DNC, a BRD or a MCH don't need to do. And this isn't PCT-specific but it applies to every other job in the game (as I said, to various degrees).