Please stop removing Damage Over Time effects from every job, add more complexity

[Shurrikhan]

i'm willing to bet that DRG has a much more busy rotation now than it did in HW

Less, actually (less positioning, less tracking, less decision-making).

But that's beside the point. Phlebotomize didn't prevent Lance Mastery II any more than Heavy Thrust did (which coexisted with our 5-step rotation).

Plus Heavy Thrust was still a thing and you had to get a flank positional to get that sweet damage buff from it.

Technically, that part, like Impulse Drive giving combo progress only on rear attack, was removed before Heavensward (replaced with only the damage bonus, and with ID's positional being moved to Chaos Thrust). But, those positionals were a far larger portion of potency than they are today.