Most Complex DPS Class

[Zareth]

MNK > BLM > SMN > DRG

I dunno where BRD fits, I haven't personally played it or looked at it enough. I believe it's somewhere between SMN and DRG.

DRG is intentionally designed to be simple and the easiest. They specifically said that was the case in the beta forums.

BLM: Spam fire 1 until fire starter kicks in and then blizzard 3 with Thunder 3 every now and then. Yes, that's SO hard!
SMN: Stand still and rotate through the various DoTs if they're not up but otherwise press 1 button over and over...yes, that's so hard too!

DRG: Have to worry about not only keeping DoTs up but buff/debuff and making sure to get the positioning right and not use the off GCD skills at a bad time where it can either mess up the rotation or get you killed.

Yup...sounds like someone's upset at how bad SMN is in this game and is taking it out on other classes.

[kukurumei]

BLM: Spam fire 1 until fire starter kicks in and then blizzard 3 with Thunder 3 every now and then. Yes, that's SO hard!
SMN: Stand still and rotate through the various DoTs if they're not up but otherwise press 1 button over and over...yes, that's so hard too!

DRG: Have to worry about not only keeping DoTs up but buff/debuff and making sure to get the positioning right and not use the off GCD skills at a bad time where it can either mess up the rotation or get you killed.

Yup...sounds like someone's upset at how bad SMN is in this game and is taking it out on other classes.

You do realized that blm have to CC, heal, and keep themselves still right?
Smn can be mobile, but any smn that doesn't do support is not a smn. Half their skills are healer skills which makes them invaluable.

Both these classes have to look at enemies and team members.

Drg is just an easier mnk in playstyle, though mnks are a lot more sturdier. Sure they have really long rotations, but when a drg talks about position off gcd and buffs...

Mnks have off-gcds as well, have position based buffs as well (2 in fact, dragon kick and twin), have the forms, stances and have grease. A bad drg is a bad drag, a bad mnk is a missing member.

They're all have complexities. None of them should be envious of each other, though mnks do have it bad, when situations go to heck.

[MusouMugen]

You do realized that blm have to CC, heal, and keep themselves still right?
Smn can be mobile, but any smn that doesn't do support is not a smn. Half their skills are healer skills which makes them invaluable.

Did you just count being still as hard? Not pressing buttons is hard since when :P?

Anyway, I'd say monk is hardest (most annoying?) to play. Ranged characters have simply too much advantage by just being ranged, even with cast times (that's why ranger is easiest imo, almost no cast times) so I'd say dragoon 2nd only coz it's melee with crap defense and jumps that suck if you want to have max dps.

P.S. If summoner has to heal, the party is not doing well yo.

[kukurumei]

Did you just count being still as hard? Not pressing buttons is hard since when :P?

Anyway, I'd say monk is hardest (most annoying?) to play. Ranged characters have simply too much advantage by just being ranged, even with cast times (that's why ranger is easiest imo, almost no cast times) so I'd say dragoon 2nd only coz it's melee with crap defense and jumps that suck if you want to have max dps.

P.S. If summoner has to heal, the party is not doing well yo.

You never think a blm isn't trying to keep you alive? Heck a blm has to keep the healer alive at times.

In a light party, only the healer will have in combat raise. That means if your healer dies most likely it's a fail. The blm then has to both damage and make sure the healer is alive. And many times the blm has to keep the other dps alive as well.

And you think blm is on the same level as brd... you really need to play blm, and whine why you can't just blow through fire1 to fire 3. This isn't even counting CC skills like sleepga. One final sting and you're most likely wiping.

blm/smn have to keep an eye on both sides of the battle. No melee really need to do that. and a brd might as well be shooting on the corner most of the fight.

Even mnk has his/her limits. They will never be able to save a tank or a mage, because they have nothing that can help. But a blm/smn can, so they must.

Blm have it worse since 90% of their skills must be in range and cast time. I would say 30% of the time, a blm will be more support then damage. sleep and pyhsick alone puts major pressure in doing their job correctly.