Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
The only mutual exclusion between the two, though, was accepting drift in buff-less comps in order to get a bit more bonus GCD potency out of your own damage amp window (FoF, etc.) at risk of getting fewer affected GCDs (and any oGCD CDs also held) within the fight.

In all other senses, optimizing for raid buffs is just an addition to optimizing sustained damage, not a replacement for it.
When you force more and more of a jobs total potency output into a smaller and smaller window of time, that small window becomes so heavily weighted against the remaining rotation that it diminishes the importance of the gameplay outside of it, and makes rng mechanics like crit/dh more influential.

Currently, you can mismanage your filler for 8 minutes straight on PLD, and as long as you crit more of your blades than the next guy, still do more damage. I don't find that rewarding.