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    Player Mhaeric's Avatar
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    Mhaeric Llystrom
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    Balmung
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    Red Mage Lv 97
    RDM is the easier of the two for sure. Dancer's main rotation is easy with relative low actions per minute, but their burst phase can be an APM button mashing festival depending on your proc luck so it won't be great for carpal tunnel. RDM will never have a particularly high APM even during their burst phase. They're just kind of average the whole time. They both have roughly the same number of skills overall, but DNC has more buttons to choose from during their non-burst phase. E.g. I have their single target GCD attacks (which convert to the GCD steps) on buttons 1 to 4 and their AoE GCD attacks on alt-1 to alt-4. Due to Flourish, Standard Step, Technical Step and DNC AoE being better to use on 2+ targets you'll find that you'll be switching back and forth between these 8 GCD skills fairly frequently. I have a plate in my wrist from 2 years ago which has healed, but find this a bit awkward sometimes. RDM only has 5 GCD spells during their non-burst phase and I can use all 5 with bare minimum movement of my wrist so it's much more comfortable. 3 of these skills are even converted into skills used during the burst phase, thus further reducing the amount of movement I need to do with my left wrist.
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    Last edited by Mhaeric; 05-18-2020 at 10:08 AM.