Genshin's Bond of Life Mechanic

[Sebazy]

IMO it'd be a super neat addition for more casual content for sure. Gives us something to feed all the excessive oGCDs into.

The only pain point for me is how it would potentially collide with the 2 minute meta's emphasis on stuffing every buff possible into the window coupled with SE's love of ensuring there's some kind of mechanic lined up right with said 2 minute window. On one side, we managed before with Blood for Blood, but on the other side, it could start being problematic if we get 'Top to 100% or Doom' style mechanics in these windows.

[ty_taurus]

IMO it'd be a super neat addition for more casual content for sure. Gives us something to feed all the excessive oGCDs into.

The only pain point for me is how it would potentially collide with the 2 minute meta's emphasis on stuffing every buff possible into the window coupled with SE's love of ensuring there's some kind of mechanic lined up right with said 2 minute window. On one side, we managed before with Blood for Blood, but on the other side, it could start being problematic if we get 'Top to 100% or Doom' style mechanics in these windows.

I mean, I don't like talking as if the 2 minute meta will never or cannot ever change. We don't know what Dawntrail will do to the flow of combat, or any future expansion. And that's not to say it absolutely will change or go away either, I just don't like letting something that isn't set in stone control discussion about design ideas.

[Sebazy]

I mean, I don't like talking as if the 2 minute meta will never or cannot ever change. We don't know what Dawntrail will do to the flow of combat, or any future expansion. And that's not to say it absolutely will change or go away either, I just don't like letting something that isn't set in stone control discussion about design ideas.

If the 2 minute meta evaporates, that only makes this mechanic better IMO++

[Aldath]

I mean, I don't like talking as if the 2 minute meta will never or cannot ever change. We don't know what Dawntrail will do to the flow of combat, or any future expansion. And that's not to say it absolutely will change or go away either, I just don't like letting something that isn't set in stone control discussion about design ideas.

Haven't they already said that 2 Minute meta has made it easier for the dev team to "balance" and design stuff and thus it will be permanent?

[ForsakenRoe]

Haven't they already said that 2 Minute meta has made it easier for the dev team to "balance" and design stuff and thus it will be permanent?

cough Abyssos

cough Ranged Tax/Melee being 10% ahead for seemingly zero reason

I'd expect that if they had said it would be 'permanent', it'd be like how 'we cannot have a checkmark to say if you already obtained an item, the servers could not handle it'. That is, as soon as it becomes a PR issue of sorts (eg a plugin does the job for them and makes them look bad), the tune magically changes. If the 2min meta were directly linkable to a drop in player retention/too much bad PR/etc then it'd be gone, I'd assume

[ty_taurus]

cough Abyssos

cough Ranged Tax/Melee being 10% ahead for seemingly zero reason

I'd expect that if they had said it would be 'permanent', it'd be like how 'we cannot have a checkmark to say if you already obtained an item, the servers could not handle it'. That is, as soon as it becomes a PR issue of sorts (eg a plugin does the job for them and makes them look bad), the tune magically changes. If the 2min meta were directly linkable to a drop in player retention/too much bad PR/etc then it'd be gone, I'd assume

I can only imagine they'll get hounded about it during the media tour. There's too much negative discussion about it including in influencer circles that I can't imagine nothing will be done at all. Which isn't to say that they might completely change trajectory or anything, but that I find it hard to believe with the way its been talked about that it's something that will never change in any capacity. It might not be a complete removal of the meta, but maybe there will be cuts to raid buffs. There are a lot of jobs that have raid buffs that don't exactly need them thematically.

Personally, outside of Dancer, Bard, and Astrologian, I'd consider cutting most, if not all of the party buffs across the other jobs. Focus on giving different DPS different pieces of utility to help sell their unique advantages.