(also, exhibit B for "you can make something interesting to play without multibutton combos" is sword-weaver-elementalist from GW2. your basic combos are all consolidated on 1-1-1 but that doesn't matter when you're constantly freestyling your mitigations to stay alive. it's the kind of experience that I wish FFXIV tanks were more like instead of being blue DPS.
exhibit A, of course, is "playing a white mage in an 'oops! all sprouts' run of E5N")
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