Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
That change, btw, seemed targeted at the midcore. The "lowest common denominator" players don't line buffs up even now. What it did was make the midcore more capable of consistent buff alignment, and made it easier for the hardcore to to line up buffs - contrary to your statement, they weren't all coordinated in ShB simply because there were so many different CDs - 45 sec, 90 sec, 60 sec, etc - that there was just no way to get them to play nice together. High end players either picked all Jobs that had compatible CDs, or they just picked which were most beneficial to line up. The EW change streamlined this for those players, thus making things easier for them. Note that this is another definition of "favors/benefits".
You seem to have a severe misunderstanding of the hardcore, not a single higher end player actually picked jobs based on raid buff timers, jobs were picked based on what they brought to the table and who can maximise the use of those buffs. In regards to the timers, you are also wrong there, you just have to add it up, 45s will naturally align with 90s and also with 180s, 30s and 60s will naturally align with 120s, and every single buff aligns at 360s, if a fight doesn't last for 12 mins, everyone just delayed 120s to align at 9 mins. I say again, what did the higher end players gain from the EW change? I'll admit that the midcore maybe could benefit from it, but you're adamant that the hardcore also benefit from this, what did they gain?