I've seen plenty of promies with the perfect setup (i.e. WAR/NIN, WAR/NIN, RNG, WHM, SMN, SMN etc.) go belly up. Maybe it was because they were too cocky about their perfect set up to farm anima but beyond that it was their lack of skill.

Beyond that there are things that do require some skill in XP though much less as you get completely used to doing it till you can do it in your sleep. Plenty of melees have trouble lining up for SATA. It's a skill for a RDM to be able to juggle in their minds a refresh cycle whilst keeping the mob dispeled and enfeebled, back up healing and potentially hasting people. Like Om said... hitting a PLD with Ballad in XP is a skill. It's a skill most BRDs don't bother developing.

If you think NIN tanking doesn't take a lot of skill you should really try NIN. Developing good timing for keeping shadows up while doing enough damage and other things to hold hate isn't as easy as some good NINs make it look.


All that aside what MMORPG does require the kind of skill you imply? What RPG period requires skill for that matter? Aren't they all just grinding XP the same way an occasionally using a basic strategy on bosses? It's all the same. I guess we just have different definitions of skill.