List of Complaints

[Taliriah]

17. Way too little rng in combat

18. The slow deletion or abandonment of proc based rng gameplay

DNC has heavily proc based gameplay. Guess what, it isn't terribly interesting either. (press glowing button, put buttons in bar by order of priority of which glowing one you should press first)

The problem is that fights are extremely scripted and once you have done them a few times your brain will predict everything without having to think much about it (or at all). If the enemy follows a script then the player have nothing interesting to do than also following a script. The "difficulty curve" is nothing more than learning that script.
This entire game genre (action RPG) is fundamentally inept, gameplay wise. The only saving grace of FFXIV is they can tell a good story but I don't know how the gameplay could ever climb out of the deep pit of mediocrity that it's in.