Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
Gauges are literally just timer and resource trackers that aren't aligned to your buff bar. A quick at-a-glance of your job specific mechanics that wouldn't get lost in the plethora of buffs that get tossed out on a constantly shifting bar.
Only sort of. It also gave rise to new, and often pointless mechanics just because they wanted to give everyone a job gauge. Things like Ninki and DRG gazes and the fairy gauge, which seem to exist solely because some dev thought the UI wasn't flashy enough.