The cooldown reset on A8s is unbearable

[Eidolon]

There were videos posted when SSS was first released that showed people with dps cooldowns active and off cooldown to be reused again during the encounter. Abilities such as Raging Strikes which on a normal SSS attempt you can only use once due to it's cooldown period were able to be used a second time. This could have been hotfixed to be no longer possible, but since I never bothered doing this myself (as I and others have stated, doing this only cheats yourself) I can't say for certain if it is still possible. As for how they did it, I would know either as the videos started with the initiation of the SSS combat and did not show how they managed to have the buffs running prior to initiation with the skills themselves off cooldown and available for use.

I mean. Heres the thing, I checked it myself (Because hey, doing research) - and like I said. AT BEST, you can get 1, maybe TWO attacks in if you play it right, with the buff up. It's really not as broken as you're trying to play it out to be. Matter of fact, most the time - those very same buffs (raging strikes) would've been popped before the first hit anyways. So no, it's really not broken to have that, and even if you COULD get a whole 1-2 extra whopping attacks in, you'd likely be screwing up your own rotation doing it, and poorly training yourself for a real encounter.

And you somehow think that people will abuse this in a raid scenario? No. First of all, when you DIE, you lose all your buffs. So that's already out the window. As for what you said - the idea of resetting it based upon the Boss itself resetting, that is indeed available to abuse if they chose to do it that way.

But like you said, read the whole thread. There were counter-suggestions that said it should only happen during the Fade to Black Reset screen, which is ONLY possible in the scenario of a full party wipe. This means things like a5S sadly wouldn't have the benefit, but honestly - I think SE should avoid annoying turns like A1/A5 (Where you have to fight a striking dummy miniboss before an actual boss.)