Twin Snakes Visibility

We've got Leaden Fist, Earth's Reply, RoF, the 2 Brotherhood buffs, 2 True North, and of course party buffs, especially DNC and AST.

Darkside is a minute long.

Sam's buffs are 40s long and are connected to Sen.

DRG's buff is every other combo.

I'm not a fan of job gauges but it seems backwards. I think if any buff is added to a gauge, it should be Twin Snakes.

I've thought this since they seperated GL off to its own UI in Stormblood.

Twin Snakes shouldn't even be a maintenance buff. It should have a different effect or just a normal potency skill like True Strike is. MNK already deals with maintaining Greased Lightning as a flat damage buff, then it has Twin Snakes on top of that. It's redundant for the current direction they're wanting to move jobs in and feels like a dated mechanic.

For reference, Monk now does two True Strikes in a row before refreshing Twin Snakes, since it's finally been brought up to the GCD speed it should have had a long time ago. You want to use Twin Snakes as few times as possible or your damage will suffer for it, but you also still have to maintain the buff. It's reminiscent of keeping up Yukikaze slashing debuff on Samurai in Stormblood.

But to answer your initial question, there are forbidden tools you can use to keep track of buffs like Twin Snakes, ROE, and other things that could be like having a job gauge if you know where to get them. (I am not advocating this, only saying they exist)

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Originally Posted by YojimboM

But to answer your initial question, there are forbidden tools you can use to keep track of buffs like Twin Snakes, ROE, and other things that could be like having a job gauge if you know where to get them. (I am not advocating this, only saying they exist)

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Someone should write a discord script for it. Then it won't have to be so hush hush wink wink. You know, because Discord is a cleared app.

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Originally Posted by Kaethra

Someone should write a discord script for it. Then it won't have to be so hush hush wink wink. You know, because Discord is a cleared app.

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I assure you that none of my Teamspeak 3 plugins interact with the game :^)

I agree. I used to be able to track where in my rotation I was by watching the cool down on dragon kick. But now with the blunt resistance removed, I'm sure that I've more than once either refreshed twin snakes early or let it drop because I didn't have that timer on the boss cast bar to go off of. I don't watch my own buffs bar because before this expansion, that rarely contained information I needed to track, especially after having two years of all the other relevant information being in the job gauge.