any1 else ready to boost to level 60 and skip story?

[SDaemon]

First, any monkey can be taught to push buttons in a certain order. Learning a rotation is nothing special. What I'm talking about is group experience. As you so kindly said, everybody learns this through group activities like dungeons. You aren't going to learn that in a FATE. Every job has skills that aren't used all the time that need to be used when in a group. You need to weave those in so your normal rotation doesn't get hosed. Or in some situations doesn't get overly hosed. Group dynamics change your rotation. PotD hardly qualifies because everybody can and usually does run it as DPS for the first 100 floors even if they've queued as a tank or healer.

lol, you just keep dragging this discussion further and further from what it started as. Learning your job and learning mechanics are not the same. I don't need to play a dungeon and learn the mechanics of a fight to understand what provoke does, what my aggro abilities do, how to determine aggro, where I need to attack from for positions, what abilities timers and cooldowns do, how to judge who I should heal and how etc. Learning mechanics involves adapting your abilities, yes and that comes from experience, but by your logic no one truly knows their job unless they've experienced every fight mechanic, and learned it, in the game and not for long because new mechanics will eventually be added.