BLM no better then other?

[skaterger]

Why do people say that the SMN rotation is significantly harder. It's just as easy lol

-Dot clipping too early or too late affects dps greatly. If dots fall off, huge dps loss. Blm only has thunder as a dot, and it is part of their basic rotation during umbral ice phase.
-Micromanaging pet and their abilities. If pet dies, albeit rarely, huge dps loss again.
-Blm has a fixed rotation, summoner not so. If either has to move for some reason, blm's rotation mostly remains the same (maybe 1 less fire 1 if using scathe or transpose if SC flare) but its much more dynamic for smns.
-Less buttons to press for blm. I have all my blm spells and macros on 1 hotbar but need 2 hotbar for smn and their pet abilities.
-Many more cooldowns to keep track off for smn. Both classes have RS, but smn has contagion, SF, spur, rouse, enkindle, aetherflow in addition to the 3 basic dots.
-To achieve optimal dps for smn, they have to master certain small nuances like using contagion with M2, auto attacking when possible, keeping Shadowflare up 100% of the time and weaving in off gcd skills. To achieve optimal dps for blm, they have to master maximizing dps while moving, which for the most part is using a macro for AM and saving firestarter procs if you know you need to move soon, and of course using scathe. The latter feels much easier to me IMO.

There are probably a couple more but these are the primary ones mainly. I remember when I switched to smn from blm that it took me almost 2 weeks on my smn to achieve the same dps that I did on my blm, I was always forgetting to use aetherflow when it was off cooldown, forgetting shadowflare, and other minor stuff but these things all add up. Of course, after playing the class for a while now, these things come pretty naturally to me but i remember it was discouraging back then and I almost wanted to switch back to blm. But I'm glad I stuck to it cause I love how dynamically the class plays compared to blm. I'm pretty sure you are aware of all the things I mentioned above since you play smn as well so I think it all boils down to personal perspective. Just my 2 cents.