Ask an Aran thread.

This is pretty much the epitome of what I'm talking about regarding endless praise towards Final Toss without providing any kind of evidence as to why it's the end all be all Aran skill. Personally, I can't spam it quickly enough for it to be worthwhile because I play using a controller, but even if you're just sitting there spamming up down attack until the end of time I'm not convinced it's universally better, even on paper.

Assuming a full Overswing + Final Blow combo takes about the same amount of time as 6 final tosses or 5 rolling spins, the Overswing + Final Blow combo is doing 2546% damage unevenly distributed over 8 attacks versus final toss's 2730% damage (assuming that I calculated sudden strike's multiplier correctly) evenly distributed across 7 hits or rolling spin's 2200% damage evenly distributed across 20 hits. By those numbers alone, Final Toss does have a slight damage edge, but assuming you're hitting anywhere near the damage cap with your skills, you'd get more damage out of the Overswing + Final Blow combo because of it doing more hits in the same amount of time, and the comparison with Rolling Spin isn't even close.

Lastly, I said I didn't see the appeal of sitting around spamming Final Toss, not that it wasn't a viable means of dealing damage. I know I didn't make my Aran so I could mash myself to carpal tunnel spamming one particular skill input every quarter of a second for a slight potential increase in damage, anyway.

All the statistical information to prove that Final Toss does more damage than Overswing + Final Blow and Rolling Spin exists. You don't have to do silly pomegranate like assume it takes the same amount of time to do 6 final tosses as it takes to do an Overswing + Final Blow or 5 Rolling Spins, because it takes exactly 1.89s to do Overswing + Final Blow, 0.33s to do Final Toss, and 0.63s to do Rolling Spin. Final Toss would be the one to hit damage cap first, and if you can't do that, then it's meaningless to argue that Overswing is a better skill.

Rolling Spin does less damage at max level than level 1 Final Toss would so how anyone thinks it's a strong skill is beyond me. It's only useful if you use it in conjunction with Final Toss itself.

And you're using a controller, that's the easiest way to use Final Toss, I don't understand how anyone thinks pressing one key is hard. Maybe you need to learn how to use a controller.