Chemist Kit theorycraft

[Shurrikhan]

The instant you find yourself saying: Potion = Cure, Hi-Potion = Cure 2

Cool. 'Cept here's the thing. I've never said that. Nor anything remotely like that. You're strawmanning yet again.

Please for the love of Thal do something original.

So if you want a Mix system that amounts to cycling combos as per MCH, DRG, NIN, SAM, DRK, PLD, WAR, GNB, DNC, and largely MNK and RDM, that's "original", but if I ask for anything more then than that it's "unnecessarily complicated" and thereby unoriginal just because it does not preemptively remove mana from the equation?

That makes about as much sense as potency variance among a job's GCDs being an unnecessary and creativity-squashing convolution. Yes, some way to avoid the need for potency variance while building a halfway functional kit would theoretically exist, but insisting on that gimmick for its own sake isn't going to make the resultant job more unique in its actual gameplay, let alone fleshed out.