In general, every job post HW continually suffers from the simplification/elimination of many fun optimizable complexities. It is of course reasonable and understandable that you want the gap between top gamers and casual players to not be grossly wide (as Yoshi P once mentioned live), but I feel the means you employ are not serving this purpose well.

Making less than mid-scale adjustments to oGCDs and job mechanics may narrow the gap between top and second-tier gamers, but will impact volume zone players with far less magnitude in both positive and negative directions, because as a fact many casual players do not use oGCDs on cooldown (if at all) in the first place.

For the purpose of closing gaps between casual and top players, it seems more reasonable and effective to increase the portion of damage dealt by Autos and basic GCD skills instead of simplifying/removing oGCD or mechanic complexities. While at least most users can deal Auto (and usually basic GCD) damages given they are alive, simplifying and removing job complexities will hurt the optimization experience AND not materially affect causal players.

[2. This implementation is flawed as a QoL improvement in the first place]

Yes, it is true that with new Sleeve it is now easier to use 6% divination on opener. That's it.

The cooldowns of Divination and Sleeve Draw are 120s and 180s respectively, so for 1 in 2 Divinations it is physically impossible to utilize Sleeve’s new search effect, and we are simply required to obtain Seals with less cards. In fact, we are now forced as a result to spam Redraw with cards we were previously able to play, and have far less options regarding Minor Arcana. We also now need to wait prepull for Draw recast in order to use Divination for opener, which feels bad in PF context.

While this was presumably a QoL change, the only real QoL change achieved by this is that you now need to press less buttons (which by the way is boring for some), and QoL regarding Seals has become worse in many aspects.

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