Quote Originally Posted by AmiableApkallu View Post
Except burst damage in FFXIV is... just that thing you do every X seconds. It's meaningless. You could get rid of all the 2min buffs, adjust the DPS check for the encounters accordingly (assuming there even is one), and you'd end up doing the exact same thing, sans one button.

The point of burst damage should be to kill something post haste, within seconds, not be that rote thing you do because there's a hard enrage 10min out.
Oh no, the shotgun/sniper rife/rocket launcher in my FPS game can only deal deal burst damage, and has a specific fire rate of x.xx seconds, FPS weapons are meaningless...