Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Instead, it simply means that you have to design fights within a particular balance of allowing for multiple compositions (no "need X comp to avoid wiping") while still including reasons to take non-meta jobs (i.e., jobs that are outside of just whatever rhythm creates the best total DPS in dummy fight scenarios) through minor DPS checks that do not match those meta comps' CD rhythm.
Just to play devil's advocate here, but the 60/120s bursts also restrict boss design.

Say you want to have an add that comes out at 20 seconds, or 40 seconds past the minute and it is designed that you need to burst it down. With the 60/120 second design, you cannot do that, this type of add has to come at the 60 second intervals so that the group can kill it, then you have to make it stronger to compensate. If group bursts were different, you only need 1 or 2 to use their burst, which isn't an issue as they line up anyway.

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To go back to discussing the 60/120. It has been mentioned that all groups lined up at 6 minutes in past expansions. This was the big burst phase (after fight opening), however, with EW design, that 6 minute burst now comes 3 times as often and is now much stronger due to new actions in EW. Where, in the past you might double your DPS every 6 minutes, you now double it every 2 minutes, which in turn brings up how important these burst phases are in relation to the whole fight.

Also, I don't understand the obsession with 60/120. For sake of argument, let's say we will keep the 120 burst, no problems there, but why do we need to keep to the 60 second burst? No job has a raid buff at 60 seconds, so, in theory, the mini bursts don't have to come out at 60 seconds, they could come out at 40 seconds and still line up with the big 2 minute burst. You could also have a job that doesn't have a mini burst and just has the big burst every 2 minutes, with a more sustained damage output for the rest of the time. This would at least allow the jobs to feel different between the 2 minute bursts.