Classes you prefer to play at lower levels?

[Esmoire]

I love PLD pre-Requiescat. It is the game's one shield-bearing job and the animations are satisfying going from the start up to Heavensward. I find the magic rotation to be immensely unsatisfying and even now that we are able to move while casting somehow it feels like dookie. Though like, it's also this games closest thing to a caster tank, so I'm glad it's there for people who like it.

Likewise I prefer SAM up until about early 60s and the gameplay from 70 onward doesn't sit well with me. The ability to repeat the last iaijutsu has no appeal to me and I don't like all of the Shinten spam.

[Dzian]

Likewise I prefer SAM up until about early 60s and the gameplay from 70 onward doesn't sit well with me. The ability to repeat the last iaijutsu has no appeal to me and I don't like all of the Shinten spam.

Shinten is literally just a tacked on busy button. it literally does nothing for sam aside from keep people with ridiculously short attention spans getting bored in that whole 2 second gap between gcds. same thing with kaiten to be honest and many other skills for other jobs.

I'm all for complexity but rotations aren't a complex gameplay mechanic. it's so simple and easy they had to deliberately cripple the macro system because players would just macro the entire rotation to a single button and that single button would work against every boss... it's not complex or compelling gameplay at all.

this is made even more evident by the fact bosses and mobs simply never react to your skills in any way... weak ass auto attack.... boss just stands there ignoring it... big bad fell cleave uber crit direct hit rip your face off. boss just stands there ignoring it.... thats why the battle system is so bland and boring. you could literally replace every boss with a striking dummy and the encounters wouldnt change at all.