2-minute meta

[Turtledeluxe]

Honestly besides it making quite a few jobs feel samey my biggest problem with the meta is the fact it’s made the crit problem even worse (and the crit problem was bad enough in ShB

Jobs don’t need massive 1200 attacks you do in the burst window, hope crit then never touch again and it’s made the other substats completely redundant

Ignoring AST’s horrible design problems with what it has to stuff into the burst window AST has a disgustingly powerful MP economy (it gets 3566 MP per minute not from natural regen or lucid dreaming), this means it can run massively high spell speeds and still not run out of MP, however even using a spell speed of 2.09 (you read that right a natural spell speed of 2.09) FASTro can’t beat out crit on AST with a slow GCD

What’s even the point of the other substats when the meta has pushed crit that far

Just my speculation but it's feedback from people who love seeing huge numbers on the screen that have mostly shaped the combat into what it is today.

And I can't blame them, obviously you want to optimize your gameplay and do as much dps as possible, but instead of devs maintaining the "dance" like feel FF is so often called out for, many encounters feel more like a train you can't get off of. I mean you can, but it's pretty hard to.