The cooldown reset on A8s is unbearable

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

So.... Everybody buffs up, you send the sacrifice in to start a fight with the boss while everybody else waits outside the arena. He dies, boss resets, cooldowns reset, _AND_ you still have your buffs up?

I was thinking more of a full party wipe, when everyone is killed and no one can fight the boss, so you have to release, when the boss resets, your cool-downs are reset (or greatly shortened) until the fight starts up again. Naturally this would be mostly limited to contained instances like raiding or trials rather than dungeons (as that could be exploited rather easily)

I'm not really giving an absolute answer here, just a possible example of how it could be done.

[Brannigan]

POSTING WHILE WAITING FOR IMPORTANT COOLDOWNS. I guess we could change our strategy every other pull to reflect cooldown readiness or I could just switch jobs this raid tier again . Or you could sell a cooldown reset item in the cash shop



Just make a potion or something that you can only use out of combat. Or just make them reset when the screen darkens like they should have for the past 3 years or whatever.

[Alistaire]

Why put A8S in the title here? Rest of the title works without it just fine.

[SpookyGhost]

Why put A8S in the title here? Rest of the title works without it just fine.

Probably because the first phase has 2 things that can instantly kill everyone during progression if one person makes an error. A6S would also work, though not so much after the nerf.

[Tigerlilley]

^ Exactly what this person said. Learning the mechanic thats 30 seconds in is really painful.

[alimdia]

I'm not sure why people are disagreeing with this.

Why not release no new content or features at all since those can all be exploited

[Ashkendor]

Why put A8S in the title here? Rest of the title works without it just fine.

Because then it would read "The cooldown reset on is unbearable" and that doesn't make much sense at all!

[WinterLuna]

I haven't read the full 5 pages but I support this. Waiting for cool downs takes a huge chunk of raid time when it's all added up.

[Noxifer]

That type of reset doesn't really make sense, though, Pell. I think most assume a CD reset to be the second you Release, or in fights like A8S and EX Primals, when the entire party wipes.

I can't think of a possible way to exploit that, since sacrificing a player to reset the boss will only reset their CD's, not the 7 others (would still need to wait for MP and TP, though).

This makes a good point. Resetting cooldowns at "release to start" (i.e. not being raised), and activating said measure only in Raid and Trial duties would be good. Of course, to me it'd be fine to have it in Dungeons as well. PvP... Probably not. Don't really play it myself, but I can imagine it could lead to balance issues. But since they're clearly capable of having a different skillset (and LB system) in PvP, I'm pretty sure they'd be able to have a different "release to start" mechanic in there as well.

[Cabalabob]

The thing I find funny is resetting CD's is entirely doable as they have the mechanic in SSS, almost like they're mocking us with it.