Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
If you reduce it to 2s you're lowing BRD's already weak burst window. If you buff BRD damage to fit into the 2s window you run into potential problems of making their damage too strong outside of the silence window. Recup and Guard are already relatively strong tools and are even more potent on jobs that have additional mitigation like healers and certain tanks. The whole point of silence is to hard counter those things. RDM was lowered to 2s because it hit multiple targets, but lowering brds to 2 seconds would hurt their ability to contribute significantly and simply "raising their damage" would not compensate for nerfing or removing their silence.
1.) 3s Silence is not your personal burst window, it is an enfeeblement that will scale in value if more people attack the target in that time frame. 2 seconds are a reasonable amount, 3s is pushing it, even for PLD if you were to ask me.

2.) Recup is a good tool, no doubt. However, Recup more or less exists as an even-out to Healers having reduced responsibility on the survival on the individual player. Additionally because you can no longer healspam, pressure damage has become more viable, making burst damage not the only option anymore

3.) In the thread talking about Guard having issues I gave examples why Guard alone is a bit little because most defensive value is frontloaded into this ability. Purify is mediocre without Fetter Ward and Guard does not allow for active PvP combat.

4.) RDM was not the only job who had their CC reduced from 3s to 2s. Other notable examples were:
- [WHM] Afflatus: Purgation (AOE Limit Break)
- [SAM] Mineuchi (single target oGCD)

3 seconds CC also existed on Shield Bash on Paladin in feast days. Suffice it to say, 3s stun even in an era where:
- a healer could purify you and keep you healed
- the burst, while spicy, did not reach the same levels as currently
- had CC resistence so you couldn't overlap same-type CC
was excessive. So what makes 3s CC any balanced in Crystalline Conflict days?