It's an interesting fight for us because damage is almost never done this way, it's nearly constant with no breaks or specific moments to plan for. At a certain point it's like a bahamut's claw that never ends until either you or the enemy is dead.
Everything was puddles and damage.
My MT dies before my living dead falls off
Who or what are you even referring to?
I sure hope not me because if so, you totally misunderstood my posts. Nowhere did I say a healer shouldn't dps. I pointed out that even with slotted crafted acc gear and 500+ dps from the SCH they obviously did not manage to reach the dps checks which, again, my main point, is that paperdoll stats for A3 might just not cut it until they gear up more.
And I found the rage about not being able to beat A3 the second day after it game out kinda funny.
That's all I was trying to say and everyone jumps on weird conclusions about world first intentions and healer dps? Geez guys, chill
Crafting sounds like a fucking mess this patch.
I look at it more than with the cast times I have a second to breathe and check my dots, check the situation, and plan my next few moves accordingly. It's more short sighted than Machinist is because there's nothing like Wildfire's countdown looming over my head, but I still take the slower Bard time to plan out what my possible options will be with my next few gcds. In the end it's completely a preference thing and whatever works for each person works. I like Machinist as well, but I feel like I spend too much time flailing around hitting buttons.
We're still only a month in and people aren't gonna know much about classes they haven't played at all yet. I remember in 2.0 I hadn't leveled Dragoon yet and had Eve rattling off his nonsense bullshit Dragoon rotation I never paid attention to. He's way easier to tune out when he rambles on about Dragoon garbage. When I started playing Dragoon myself, I understood more of what was being talked about and really could get a better grasp on what the class was capable of. Same with Warrior for me. Unless people take the time to play Machinist and see what it feels like they're just gonna go by what Reddit says.
I can't disagree with this and sometimes I forget I even have Dismantle/Rend Mind because of how inconsequential they feel. It's like having that non-MNK Mantra. Here's a shitty 5%. At least 10% sounds like it does something. 5% is like "Well it's literally barely better than nothing!"
