FF14 5.X Alternative Raid Buff Alignment and Openers

[Oxdarock]

I don't think timelines would help when people have told you multiple times that most of these openers are not as optimal as the balance ones. Whilst you probably have the noblest intentions with these openers, I feel like creating more rescources to draw eyes to them will just further spread misinformation.

The reason I've continued with these openers is because none of the people who've claimed that the balance openers are always optimal have been able to address the holes in said openers in a raid setting. By making a timeline of each opener detailing where abilities line up, even someone who doesn't have knowledge on classes other than their main can look up potencies on the FF14 Job page and do simple math to find the result.

The only optimal point that the Balance openers have in common is that an earlier burst phase can lead to more/avoid the loss of uses overall. However, this is a case-by-case basis, the primary and well-known example being the GNB opener for E3S, which goes into it's Gnashing Fang combo much earlier than usual. This is done so that they don't lose a full GF combo due to Maelstrom. However, this is the only case (that I know of anyway) where this happens. For every other fight, despite being able to use their burst so early, the standard GNB openers call for them to delay their burst to line up with other raid buffs.

The raid alignment of this list follows a similar logic in that, if there's no dire need go into a burst phase early, then it's better to line it up with as many raid buffs as possible. That said, people want proof, and while it's relatively simple to pull up a calculator and do some quick addition and multiplication using values given the FF14 Job page and other resources, an extremely small amount of people have the patience to figure out the timestamp of the openers for even their main class, let alone every other class in the game. So I figured removing that tedious step would allow people to more easily see the logic behind these openers.