Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[MomomiMomi]

Of course everything is identical when you strip them of their mechanics that make them different.

The complexity with your songs lies within manipulating your DoTs with buff snapshoting and timing EA to force procs in your favor. Not just idly letting the procs happen. Minuet’s procs have different conditions in which you use 3-stack PPs versus 2-stack PPs; Mage’s is the old River of Blood trait, which you can manipulate in AOE situations to grant you more AOE firepower with Rain of Death using EA. The only song I agree is lackluster is Army’s Paeon, which don’t have a proc mechanic in the sense the other two do—it’s strictly a haste buff, and the gains are minuscule which is why BRDs clip it early to re-enter their burst phase.

The songs themselves being boring is the part that I don't like about them. They could keep the other parts but separate it from the buffs, and make the songs themselves more unique. The buffs themselves are redundant, and there's very little choice in using a song. As it is the only real choice is which to use first, and which to cut short (which is a given because it's simply inferior to the others). There's little reason in there even being the three songs.

All of that though is just part of why I don't think Bard is particularly fun, and not why I find it unfun. That has to do more with the DoTs, and the other abilities I mentioned. SS/HS/RA all do fill the same function. Outside of not letting SS fall off, you will never have a situation where you will have to decide between two of them. If SS isn't on, you would use SS. If SS is on and Straighter isn't, you would use HS. If Straighter is on and you're not level 70, SS. If you are level 70 and Straighter is on, RA.

Just like you don't like pressing 1-1-1 instead of 1-2-3, I don't like pressing 1-2-3 when I could instead press 1-1-1. I do not find them to be mechanically different, I don't find it any more engaging, and psychologically, I dislike the thought of using an inferior method when a superior method (in my opinion, of course) could be implemented. Every time I play BRD, the redundant abilities bug me and just put me off of the job.

Thus, I would like options. You play the current way, I'd like to play mine.