Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
They're not necessarily wrong though. Every job has a large muscle memory component to it due to the rotational nature of XIV's gameplay, so you get to the point that for casual play every job in XIV is, in fact, rather simple.

Of course, I hold that every job gets significantly more difficult in minor ways as you move to optimizing it. Even jobs considered brain dead by the community, and there's a lot of bias around the topic from confirmation bias to pure favoritism of course.

But for the 95% of the player base in this game who don't speed or parse run, yes all jobs are pretty simple.
Yes sure if we are talking about content below savage, everything is almost trivial.
But honestly, if we are talking about absolute job difficulty, shouldn't it be in the context of content that actually challenges the player ?
Job complexity/ difficulty is designed around savage and higher after all. There would be little point in a class thats so difficult, it suffers when also having to handle savage mechanics.


Besides that, the poster in question obviously plays High End content and spends much time parsing.