2 minute burst window vs fight design

[Absimiliard]

So you'd prefer to be useless against magic as a PLD again and be dropped because you're worthless in several raid fight in a tier? You'd like for your RDM to be thrown out of a group because its burst doesn't align with 90s raid buff cooldowns that the party is aligning around?

PLD and RDM are already intentionally excluded anyway. Scrapping the two-minute burst meta wouldn't do them any favors, yeah, but they're already getting screwed.

Frankly, to me, the meta seems to be a huge source of stagnation for endgame fight design. Trying to force everything to work with it has resulted in an incredible amount of job homogenization and a decrease in fight mechanics that are creative or fun in favor of bosses having a spameurysm every couple minute.

[RyuDragnier]

PLD and RDM are already intentionally excluded anyway. Scrapping the two-minute burst meta wouldn't do them any favors, yeah, but they're already getting screwed.

Frankly, to me, the meta seems to be a huge source of stagnation for endgame fight design. Trying to force everything to work with it has resulted in an incredible amount of job homogenization and a decrease in fight mechanics that are creative or fun in favor of bosses having a spameurysm every couple minute.

Unfortunately, the players make the meta, so it's the players fault things come to this. They'll never be appeased.