Quote Originally Posted by Doo View Post
The skillful part of FFXIV comes from the terrible dodging mechanics, the bad camera angles, and gimmicks. What do you think players have the most trouble with in this game? Dodging why is that? Even though they have done the fight many times before over and over.
Dodging is only the elementary, and very basic skill in FFXIV. It's what people do around the dodging that leaves a wide margin of skill. People can dodge, and still perform poorly. You claim that there's not much deviation from ones standard rotation, and while that may be true in a bubble. The ability to maintain what you do around all the dodging is where skillfull play really comes in.

This game may not be the most difficult, but XI is certainly not the dog you want to pit against XIV. And mentioning skill chains as a comparison of skill should be insulting to anyone who's played both XI and XIV excessively.