message from a player to part of the community about jobs

[Almalexia]

Fine, I can understand that some players love to play it like that, but get it in your skull that there's more than one playstyle!

You have the wrong idea about FFXIV.

Jobs to not have "builds" or "specs" or "styles." They each have a single, stringent and optimal rotation - an ideal. Every buff and ability fits into a rhythm, which produces The Best Outcome when executed in time. Any deviation from this rhythm is necessarily Not-The-Best Outcome.

Think of it like DDR. There's only one way to do the dance right and your score falls on a continuum between perfect and not playing at all. Now imagine playing DDR and a bunch of people are throwing silverware at you, or using a rope to tie you to other people playing DDR--that's your FFXIV raid experience.

The sooner you accept there's one way to do it, the sooner you can start mastering it.