Quote Originally Posted by SailorCeti View Post
I love this game more than any other MMO I've played. However, I feel somewhat limited in the jobs I can play. First, I'm an older player. Second, I have arthritis. Third, I've had two strokes.

The main issues for me (and I suspect I'm not alone), are the sheer amount of abilities some jobs have and that some jobs have unnecessarily complex mechanics in the higher levels. Most jobs have too many abilities that do similar things. Why not combine these into a single ability that's more effective overall? Don't get me started on SAM mechanics. I can't remember all the "combos." I gave up on that one. Have you seen the rotations for some of the jobs, when shown visually, people have to make flowcharts! Seriously, this is not okay. If most people can handle it, fine, but not everyone can.
Luckily for you almost every class scales with the amount of stuff you want/can do (except maybe BLM and MNK). If you can only memorise and/or physically handle doing half the combos then your character will still perform "properly", you just won't be squeezing the extra juice from it that another player will. Will this make it hard for you to do certain content like Savage? Sure, but it won't in anyway make you inoperable. Even BLM and MNK still work to some degree if you follow no rotation whatsoever.