Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
That's what people think until they actually got to optimize it in ShB. It wasn't a hard job by any means but there was a lot of overwriting you had to avoid back then, and also melee phases during burst. Compared to ShB MCH which was frankly super basic (just more apm), it wasn't actually really easier. So saying it was meant to be a simon says job is only at the surface level because it just happened to have a very accessible skill floor. That's why I argued above it only became that easy last expansion, because the job got dumbed down hardcore with a lot of QoL changes which removed all of the proc overwriting concerns notably from Flourish (and also the melee in burst to make room for nukes, so less overwriting too there).

I'm not saying this as someone that necessarily wanted to keep the overwriting on the job though, and I didn't even play it much back then to have thoughts about it anyway.
Don't remind me of how much I loved going into melee to use blood shower on single target why'd that take it away.