Contradictions, Double Standards, Counterintuitive Design

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I mean, WAR is already kind of there.

If you think of Storm's Eye as their 30 sec DoT/Dia, Inner Release as their Presence of Mind, Orogeny/thesingletargetoneIforgetthenameof as their Assize, Overpower as their Holy, Fell Cleave/Decimate as their Afflatus Misery, and Storm's Path as their Glare, it's ALMOST the same thing as you're saying above and parallels WHM. It only has a 1-2 before Storm's Eye/Path, and a 1-2 DPS rotation, but also has no GCD heals (and all actual tanking abilities aren't GCDs), and WAR/WHM have about the same number of total Hotbar slots/buttons.

If you removed their 1-2 in their single target combo, their 1 or 2 in their AOE combo, and combined Decimate/Fell Cleave and Orogeny/X into one button instead of two, it's basically WHM in tanking form. Complete with the party healing.

...and honestly? I'd have no problem with that, I like WAR and WHM as they are right now. Though I think it'd be nice if we had more variation in healers. Like AST is kind of like GNB with the APM, but there's not really a healing equivalent to, say, PLD and DRK.

WAR basic filler rotations generates beast gauge so long you press them; no pressing them, no Fell Cleaves/Decimates for you. Storm's Path generate more resource but does not refresh the buff. Storm's Eye generates less resource but refreshes the buff. Compare to WHM? WHM's lily are passively generated; you can smack your target with your cane and it'll refill on its own without you doing anything. Solace/Raptures does build up into Misery but you only get at max 4 presses that is not Glares in a minute if we turn to blind eyes toward the meaningless heals. Outside that, we spam Stone/Glare/Holy & keeping Dia uptime which does not build up into anything, at all.

Honestly, those already sets apart their depth despite how often WAR's simplicity is being meme'd upon amongst its own role. To that, I disagree that they're "already kind of there". They definitely have more going on.