Quote Originally Posted by Ianmaru View Post
I expected you to be open minded and see the possibility that you might have overlooked, instead of keep denying the obvious. saying "There is no “I need to summon this now” about getting a mana regen from shiva" is your grasping at straw moment.

Try properly refuting my last examples about the element of choice, instead of only "nah those are not real choices", then I'll listen.
Because your entire idea of there being choice in the immediate period hinges on the idea that you didn’t do the same set of things 2 minutes ago

Let’s use the shiva mana regen idea (and not as a joke but seriously). You said “oh crap I’m at 2k mana I need to summon shiva now”. Why are you on 2k mana, you would have summoned shiva in the last 2 minute window. SMN doesn’t really chain rezz like RDM and you don’t have primals immediately accessible after death so shiva will basically just become lucid dreaming because if they tax your mana enough to desperately need it then you will use it on CD, if they don’t then it’s basically a wonky recovery tool you can’t fully control like the current phoenix heals

As for the example of ramuh that basically amounts to a movement speed buff that could easily just be any instacast primal.

Think of it this way imagine you are a SCH and every two minutes you are obligated to cast seraph, expedient, illumination, indom, excog and dissipation. You can choose roughly which order you cast them in but you can you have to cast them roughly 20 seconds apart. Would this work for a healing design……..very likely not. And that’s because you are forced to press what you don’t need to complete the loop and also you don’t have full control over when you can press them or cancel one to receive another

Your idea is fantastic if the fights were two minutes long, but the necessity of pressing utility you don’t need because it’s a DPS gain to do within a 2 minute loop is too restrictive and ruins the idea. If the rotation was 5 minutes so you roughly had 2 full loops per fight you could even work with that but 2 minutes is too short of a time to organise 6 independent utility skills that must be pressed roughly 20 seconds apart, cannot be pressed in the 1 or 2 minute burst window cannot be overlapped without massive damage loss and must all be pressed for optimal damage