Quote Originally Posted by QiLymePye View Post
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At least I have the choice whether or not I want to run that same stupid fate or wear the same style of gear. I can ignore the fate and do something else, glamour over my gear, and as far as skill rotations go (which there are none for healers, WHM is my main) that doesn't matter to me because the mechanics of each fight are different. For the most part, I have the choice between doing X repetitive thing or doing Y other fun thing, but if I have to travel through some dumb huge map that has the same tree copy and pasted 8 trillion times before I ever get to my destination, then that's when I get annoyed.

In nearly every game there's going to be an optimal rotation and BiS gear that everyone is going to wear.

Kinda off topic, but: FFXIV and ESO are not built the same way. Sure you can swap weapons and abilities but you can't in combat because that's not how the game was meant to be played. Duty roulettes would be hell if the healer just decided to switch to a DPS class and the other 3 party members didn't have a healing class leveled up enough to replace their lost healer. I've hardly touched ESO (tried the beta, hated it) but I'm sure there are aspects of it you would rather be changed, but they won't be because that's how the game was built/meant to be played.