Inevitable Job Simplifications?

[tearagion]

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Cleared TEA on RDM without consulting the Balance for how to play my job, didn't parse before you ask, and am happier for it. Also it was really easy. Do you really need to consult the Balance to know you should stack buffs when you can? And that you should saturate cooldowns, preferably in the buffs? Can you not do basic arithmetic to find out if holding a cd for a buff that's coming soon is a good idea? Mechanical limitations and nuance you can just pick up intuitively while playing the game. I know this because I did.

Did I do the perfectly optimal rotation? No, but to pretend that thinking back to that last pull and reasoning, for example, that you'll be able to get a bit more damage by trying to slidecast that long movement so that you can realign fleche and contre-sixte with your dual-cast later is some arcane magic that can only be divined by the high council of the RDM mentors on the Balance is frankly insulting. Your argument really only begins holds water for BLM, which is ironic because BLM is the single best designed DPS for enabling simple, and extremely complex play to both clear any content.

A lot of people love to say how "braindead" Jobs are...while using add-ons and theorycrafters to do the work for them to figure it out. At that point, all you're doing is very basic priority system understanding and dumb monkey muscle memory on a target dummy for a few hours. Of COURSE things are going to seem easy and braindead when you have other people and illegal crutches doing all the work for you.

Don't project at me ty

When you do your own theorycrafting and play without benefiting from any add-ons (note, this includes using add-ons for theorycrafting or referring to research done by people that do - the Balance folks use add-ons to determine their optimal stat allocations and rotations), THEN you can talk about Jobs being "easy to figure out" and "braindead".

I already have for BLU before