I remember reading a Reddit thread of a guy who did literally hundreds of clears of E12S using the dragon kick rotation fishing for crits and eventually got a rank 1 gold parse using the dragon kick rotation. It was hilarious.

Fire mage taking "2 minute burst window" literally haha

"SSS Monk"

More like:

"Smoking Sick Style Monk"

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Wind mage lol. I started on conjurer having never played an mmo before, so the way the skills work was new to me. When I first unlocked aero 1, I used it as my main attack over stone 1 because it didn't seem to do much less damage, had the dot effect, I could move while casting it, and I assumed later spells were stronger than earlier ones.

Thankfully realized pretty quickly that the delay from the gcd made the instant cast not worth sacrificing the damage, especially after unlocking stone 2 made the gap much bigger.

But I ran wind mage for a few levels at the very start of the game 😂

we've seen the ice and fire black mage, now get ready for the (hopefully nonexistent and a stretch to call a rotation) thunder black mage

I think you’ve covered something similar to this before, but I saw this one in the wild. I was doing The Wanderer's Palace as a healer. I noticed the red mage was hard casting Verthunder and Veraero. But even weirder, they seemed to be using the Dualcast proc to cast Sleep. I think they may have come from another MMO, where crowd control is useful. It’s also possible they thought sleep would work like stun or maybe that it makes the mobs debuffed in some way.

I’m not a mentor but I did try to very gently let them know that using Jolt and then casting Verthunder and Veraero with the Dualcast proc would be a lot more fun and do more damage. They never responded, so there may have been a language barrier.

Once had a DF Dragoon keep using Chaos Thrust. Not Chaos Thrust combo, just Chaos Thrust. After hearing the SFX over and over again I couldn't fathom how they misunderstood the tooltips so poorly that they didn't realize that not only did using Chaos Thrust multiple times didn't stack dots, nor did they not get the full potency, but they didn't even get the dot because Chaos Thrust wasn't used in a combo.
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I can speak to the SSS Monk. When I was leveling Monk and unlocked SSS I saw the potency, didn't notice the recast, and thought "oh I guess I should be using this a lot?" Then I fought one (1) mob while doing that and immediately noticed the recast timer. Waiting that long between attacks feels REALLY bad, especially when you're used to Monk's GCD speed. After realizing this I instead assumed that SSS was completely worthless and didn't understand the point of it at all until looking it up later and realizing it has a use but is just kinda niche.

From this moment forth I'll just be a full-on Scathe Mage.

1234  Black mage is pretty crazy. I could see the reasoning though lol.

My crazy rotation story is still when I started playing XIV on acn/smn. Take the normal rotation and put a ruin between every gem-ruin cast.
My mindset was “this timer to use the gems seems long, so I probably need to ration the uses over the entire timer’s duration :D.” I still laugh thinking about that😂

I've actually seen a 'fire mage' black mage out in the wild. It was... concerning.

Also, not a cursed rotation, but back in p8s on phase 2, I remember our samurai would deliberately get hit by the shared tank auto right at the start with third eye up, just to generate a handful extra gauge. I suppose so long as it was planned out and didn't cost the healers extra resources that would force a GCD heal, it's free damage

Thanks Cae! You introduced the Disembowel Dragoon, which I mentioned in the comments on one of your previous absurd rotation videos!

I know it's not optimal, but I have been using the 1-6 monk combo:

Dragon Kick / Twin Snakes / Demolish / Bootshine / True Strike / Snap Punch
repeat

really simplifies the rotation but means you're refreshing demolish 3 GCD's too early for optimal damage.

That Dragoon Disembowel rotation reminds me of this player on a Sohm Al run from my daily roulettes that does like 3-5 Disembowel and then just as many Full Thrusts, alternating between the two, no combos, sometimes using Life surge.
It was just funny seeing them do it, lol.

I unfortunately wasn’t paying full attention to it, but I once played with a Bard that let the full duration of their songs run all the time, and used all of their other buffs on-cooldown, leading to a severely de-synced buff cycle. Not only that, their song order was Mage’s Ballad > Army’s Paean > Wanderer’s Minuet. Perhaps they thought using songs in the order of their acquisition was for the best? Or perhaps they did not think at all…

You can't convince me anyone has ever actually tried to be a fire mage for real.

I once had a thunder mage in Ghimlyt dark at some point in Shadowbringers. All I saw them use is the AOE thunder spell....even on single targets. I hadnt even levelled BLM at the time but knew something was wrong

admittedly i used the dragon kick monk rotation when i was levelling it from 80 to 90. i cant be perfect at every job, and that kinda simplification is still absolutely good enough to outperform most other players in daily roulettes. good uptime and ABC is a huge majority of your damage, and most other players just cant keep up.

Looking forward to my muscle memory destroying my monk and black mage output for the first few weeks of DT
Monk won't feel so bad but going manafont>f4>despair>b3 is going to physically hurt me every time I do it