Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
Not every job needs to be braindead or have elements removed all because some players can’t manage it. Heavy Thrust and Straight Shot were removed/reworked because people supposedly struggled with upkeep even though said upkeep was incredibly simplistic: HT fell naturally in your rotation after you did your Chaos Thrust combo and your Full Thrust combo; Straight Shot was literally “press every 30 seconds”.
I don't agree about Heavy Thrust. I struggled with it as well and just couldn't play DRG. I don't like standalone GCDs and especially ones that can disrupt a combo.

What made it differ from Reaper's is that it couldn't increase the duration to 60s, so you had to hit it at the exact right time in your rotation or it either wasn't optimal or expired causing you to disrupt your combo, whereas Reaper has more flexibility on when to refresh it. Reaper's doesn't disrupt the combo.

What made it worse was not sharing the first GCD for both combos, because all other melee classes did except MNK and MNK could still continue the other combo instead. If you put each melee combo on a different hotbar like I do and switch hotbars for each combo, this could be a problem when the first button is pressed right before switching. DRG has been perfect to me since Shadowbringers.

As for content keeping players busy—perhaps you should ask healer mains how busy they feel in most content.
When I heal I'm usually busy (spamming broil or dosis). I play AST if I don't want to be bored on a healer.

Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
Healers aren't quite that bad, but they're very close...as is warrior if you really think about it.
I think that Warrior is perfect. It's pretty braindead most of the time, just keeping up Surging Tempest and Fell Cleaving, so I can focus on mechanics. When there isn't anything going on I'm usually doing my burst with Inner Release, Primal Rend and Infuriate, which just about keeps me entertained.

There is probably more capacity that Warriors could have though because Gunbreakers are really busy but still feel manageable.