Quote Originally Posted by DRKoftheAzure View Post
People are complaining about being a 2 minute cooldown which I will say is fair criticism, along with Powder Guage(A.K.A. Cartridges) being at 3 which doesn't seem like fair criticism, and it all boils down to the 2 minute meta we have... which sucks that I have to mention it because even I don't like it as much as the next guy, and Bloodfest being 2 charges on a 60-90 second would be fine, but I only really see it getting 2 charges and that's it because the devs seem to really like the 2 minute meta...
The "two-minute meta" is more a result of CDs which exploit damage amps being available for every 120s than it is an issue of those raid buffs themselves all being 120s. It's precisely because of sticking shit like Senei, Ikishoten, Bloodfest, Ley Lines, Living Shadow, Meisui, Ten Chi Jin, Technical Step, Manafication, Dragonfire Dive, 2-charge Shadowbringer, 2-charge Blitz, etc., all so easily syncing up to those raidbuff cycles and their portion of total damage being so disproportionate that as falling within or outside them is such a big deal.

It's not "Bloodfest going from 90s to 120s isn't a big deal because we were already in the '2-minute meta'"; rather, we're in the 2-minute meta because everything has been pushed to sync around a 120s timer.

(And a 2-charge 90s Bloodfest would be just as bad in terms of "2-minute meta-ness", seeing 2 uses on the opener, 1 use on the next 2-minute cycle, and then alternating 2 and 1 each per cycle thereafter; the only difference would be the gameplay varying 2-minute bursts between 2-BF and 1-BF cycles, which would still be a slight downgrade from the 1-charge 90s CD we had originally, which --again-- gave us, in total, 4 types of cycles (also BF-mini and no-BF-mini bursts).

Do I wish all jobs were doing something more outside of the 2 minute via APM like for example giving Gunbreaker 2 charges on No Mercy, Bow Shock? Yes.
2 charges on Bow Shock would literally see no use outside of the 2-minute burst. And the only reason No Mercy could still see use outside of it is because it's longer than most raid buffs and the simple fact that at least you're not asking for Sonic Break to be given a second-charge. Otherwise, you'd just pop it for 40s per 120s, during which you'd still get 2 GF combos, both Bow Shocks, and would synergize better with Arcane Circle and Searing Light.

AND you would have to make Sonic Break being 2 charge weaponskill that scales with skillspeed.
If you do that, then you literally only hit Sonic Break during the 2-minute bursts.

You are literally asking for changes that would increasingly pigeonhole GNB's interesting actions into solely its 2-minute raidbuffed bursts... even while you claim to "dislike" the 2-minute meta.