Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
The 2 min meta has little to do with Bloodfest.

Bloodfest was changed from 90 to 120 because it was generating resources and needs a target.
Compared to abilities like Salted Earth, it's much easier to drift it and get it outside your no mercy windows.

If bloodfest worked differently, I'd agree with 90s, but not as long as it generates resources.
You may argue about "muh complexity" but I don't think it was "complex", simply overly punishing.
I'm pretty sure the ENTIRE reason Bloodfest was changed to 120 was because of the 2 min meta. I think they even said so when announcing the change.

GNB had a kind of weird rotation before then where you had the opener, filler, 60 sec miniburst, 90 sec microburst, 2 min what the heck burst, 3 min micro+mini burst, 4 min why not burst, and at 6 minutes, everything possible to align aligned. Also, the reopener was wildly different depending on which of those bursts you were closest to/had just passed. And it also required you to alter how you entered your burst windows/which ones you did and didn't extensively pool resources for.

90 seconds meant it only fit in 1 out of every 3 No Mercy windows anyway.

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But yeah, I'm 99% certain they outright said the Bloodfest change was to make it work with the 2 min meta and that was the point of the change.