Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
The demand for buff alignment was not unanimous back in ShB, but it's definitely something that sounds good in theory until you realize how it influences the rest of gameplay.
It didn't even sound good in theory if people thought about the implications at all.

The post-EW 2 minute alignment is actively hostile to newer players. Where it didn't matter as much before when you missed the timing on your buff button because alignment wasn't expected and buff window exploitation wasn't an easy thing for most jobs, it is now actively detrimental to group damage if buffs don't align on the big damage buttons that now everyone seems to have.

It's also easy to see that balance would become harder to fine tune with the changes to the 2 minute alignment. Back then, all buffs only aligned on minute 0, minute 6 and minute 12, they were a big boost to damage but not expected to happen because people can miss their timing and drift. Now, all buffs are expected to come out every 2 minutes on the dot and anyone who drifts will never align again unless they skip 1 usage.

There's just multiple downsides to the dev team forcing something that people already were doing on their own, just to make things easier for people who can't understand that 60s, 90s, 120s and 180s all align at 360s.