On the Tyranny of Burst Windows

[Rongway]

I didn't advocate for removing all forms of group synergy, if you bothered to read through it. Just the group synergy revolving around party damage buffs. None of the other party-wide buffs or debuffs directly affect and constrain job rotations the way that damage buffs do.

The optimizers are still going to find the optimal timing to line up everyone's buffs without losing casts to drift, so there will still be some sort of 60s/90s/120s burst window expectation anyway. Removing the two minute party damage buffs won't change that. Better to have a clearly delineated burst window prescribed by 2min party buffs than for people to have to learn some weird resonance that it took someone with graduate level knowledge of mathematics to discover.

[SeverianLyonesse]

The optimizers are still going to find the optimal timing to line up everyone's buffs without losing casts to drift, so there will still be some sort of 60s/90s/120s burst window expectation anyway. Removing the two minute party damage buffs won't change that.

Yes, each *individual* will be expected to optimize, but they would be able to be designed with *different* and maybe even *variable* time windows to optimize around. Optimization won't mean making every player a slave to the other 7, or every job design a slave to the other 18.