Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Ever since the update to it in Shadowbringers, the recast time on BOTD is 25 seconds and its duration is 30 seconds. Unless there's a 30 seconds transition, it becomes impossible to lose now, unless you stop hitting enemies or neglect to press the button again, 5 seconds before it wears off. The other claims against its oGCDs are weird to me, because SAM has those same sorts of things to juggle, they're just further tied into its Kenki bar and Third Eye. Along with Shifu you wind up pressing your buttons pretty much just as much, and more if your skill speed is higher than it should be. The only thing that's simpler about SAM as that there's less of a need to plan out use of your skills, since none of them affect other people, and it has one less positional.
I don't agree. For the most part, I ignore Third Eye and this hasn't let to any critical loss of battle. And like I said before, you don't have to press your buttons faster just because your have a skill speed buff, there's nothing forcing you to push the buttons faster because there's no timers on the abilities apart from the combo requirements. You don't even need to juggle your Kenki bar if you don't want to, it's not on any kind of timer, once the bar is charged the player can use the abilities at their leisure. The OP isn't looking to maximize damage per second.