I don't disagree that Blm is easy to pick up. I personally don't find any job hard to "pick up" but mastering is a completely different thing. We are absolutely reactive in almost everything we do. Dealing with Firestarter procs during our astral phase, dealing with it at the end, dealing with our thundercloud procs throughout both phases, dealing with WHEN we tick our umbral phase, moving, scathing, AoEing. Everything we do is reactional, even when the rng gods bless us and we can turret our spells without moving, we are always prepairing for the unexpected. I personally find Smn fairly easy to maximize, and as a main Blm, I can't really compair Blm and Smn together because of how differently they play. I'm not knocking anyone else who's views are different IF they have experience in all the fields they are talking about, but I have no patience for people who want to talk crap about a job they don't at LEAST have to 50. Blm and Smn don't even open up till 50, hell, all jobs don't open up until 50.