Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
PotD is not a great way to learn a new job. First, people don't actually learn how to play a job by gaining its actions one at a time. I know a lot of people think they do, but really, no, they don't. They learn to play a job with an incomplete set of actions and mechanics. There's a basic principle called Specificity of Training that states that training should be representative of the actual desired end task. If your end task is to play a job well, you need to have all its actions at least through Lv70 for a lot of jobs, maybe Lv60 on a few of them that just get action upgrades or an additional combo finisher. If people try to learn a job one action at a time, they will put buttons in bad places on their bars and they will develop bad habits that they wouldn't develop if they had to account for all their job actions. For example, someone learning RDM one action at a time might develop a habit of starting a combo with equal mana, because this behavior is possible as early as Lv02 but is punished starting at Lv68. Second, people don't learn a job's rotation unless they can continuously attack for 60s or 120s without breaks, and PotD enemies don't live that long.

If you want to learn to play a new job, get it at least to Lv60 and then wail on a target dummy for a few minutes.
I don't disagree with what your saying but we aren't talking about the same thing. The fact your talking about rotations already sets you above most new people trying to learn a job. It's much easier for a noob to read one spell at a time as they progress compared to trying to learn all spells at the same time. Specially with how low the average persons attention span is. Once you know what your abilities do, then it's way easier to understand rotations.