Adding my voice, I don't care much for optimizing for parsing, mained PCT because I love the job and loved how it played (pre 7.2), I'll still play it even if it ends up on the bottom half of dps charts because I love the class (the damage is nice too but that isn't why I play it). I still do the regular pre 7.2 rotation because it feels natural, and a few percentage loss dps compared to a patch ago doesn't on its own bother me, but *knowing* essential pieces of the kit like Hammer is a loss unless used in the buff window just doesn't feel good. Hearing some say that creature parts are also a loss unless you can complete it with Mog/Madeen also just sounds bad.

I was sad to hear nerfs were happening since it's my main but agreed it was too strong so it had to happen to some degree, but the idea of doing more damage by not interacting as much with PCT's core mechanics just doesn't feel like a good (or intended?) change to its gameplay. Even though I will still play the old rotation, I hope the devs reconsider some of the potency changes, not necessarily buff it closer to what it was before, but. I'm just really sad to know the state of Hammer because it was so fun to use