Quote Originally Posted by FireMage View Post
You clearly don't understand how the focus around 2 min came to be, and don't get there will always be burst phases because that's how buffs work
It came to be because many players including my self kept asking for "this buff" and "that buff" to be aligned and shifted together into two minutes because we all thought it would make the game better and more fun. Unfortunately, now that we have it, it turns out it did not make the game better, more fun or more balanced and many people, including myself, want it gone.

There will indeed always be burst phases, and that is okay. There were burst phases in HW, SB and SHB. NIN has always been a very good pick in every expansion because of Trick Attack/Mug, but only in EW has every single job been aligned perfectly with it. Even for the jobs that did not align well on 60s/120s burst windows, they were still more balanced than they are now that every job does align well on 60s/120s. More importantly, they were more fun to play and more jobs felt more varied than they do currently. While there will always be a meta, some jobs will be better than others, and there will be ideal comps around certain buff timings in the fight design especially, having every job feel exactly the same on the exact same timers is not fun and nor has it made the game more balanced. The game balance is the worst it's been since Gordias.

Fun is subjective, but seeing as you don't know the difference between objective and subjective, I'll let you embarrass your self again.