Observations on DPS in End Game

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I can agree with you on this definitely. The 2.5 sec gcd definitely trivializes the game somewhat. Maybe the rotation that I described is what I do personally, or at least what I strive to do. But still from what the op seems to be describing, it seems to be a fairly high level of play (selling ex primal runs) I reckon at least has to have every player at 85-90% of the class potential. And even though I don't have a lvl 50 dragoon yet, I believe it is not as simple as just HT, ID and Dis, to really max dps you need to time all your buffs with bfb and IR (power surge, life surge, plem, leg sweep, inv, jumps in that 20 sec window). I had to work it out at the start but now it becomes second nature for me. All I'm saying is that it might not work that way for everybody.

Let me give you an example from Wow (since I only started ff14 a month ago and played wow >5 yrs). There was this female healer in my guild who played a holy priest and the husband played a tank. We raided 10 man from BC to cata and for the most part of her journey as a healer, she was a terrible healer. She literally could not multitask. (If she had to move she could not heal, if she had to heal she could not move,she would always forget to heal the tank, shield the tank use cooldowns and basically have tunnel vision healing.) We tried every ways and means to help her and even had a gathering where we watched her play and told her what to do while we watched. She just could not heal to save her life but you could see she was really trying. I would imagine she would die a gruesome death if she tried titan hm in ffxiv. This is what I am saying. Not everyone has the same skill cap and it is arguably unfair to generalize everyone that does not meet your defined standard as bad when you have no idea of their background or playstyle.

And if you think blm can't screw up, obviously you have not played blm enough. I can't count the number of times I was 5 mana short of a swiftcast flare or 10 mana short of a blizzard 3 and I stand there looking like an idiot waiting for a transpose tick. Or maybe Im just "Bad" :P