Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
This would fix absolutely nothing for most tanks because it's basically what we have right now. I know this thread is about Dark Knight but tell me what would change about Warrior's or Paladin's gameplay? They're already on a 60 second loop, sure didn't make either of them more interesting. Even Dark Knight is technically already on a 60 second loop, you just bank Shadowbringer for the party buff window, something you would still do as long as they keep the 2 stacks.

And if you keep tanks and healers on a 60 second rotation the 2-min meta will not be "DPS exclusive" because tanks and healers will inevitably play into it as well.
That's the point. You want to back off the 2 min meta by emphasizing that its the DPS's job to do damage. The devs have shown they are incapable of balancing around job exclusive windows but 120 can be divided 2, 3, or even 4. This would open up the possibility of bringing back 40 sec cds like how blood weapon used to be in SB. This would benefit DRK in the most part as they can finally get back to SB DRK which imo was peak. It had the high resource management and ogcd spam of ShB/EW DRK but had the utility to match PLD and the healing to match WAR. Everyone will still meet at 2 mins but what they do in between can vary wildly because cds aren't just 120 or 60.

Imagine if in DT we get SB BW and you got to regain MP every 40 secs while also getting a haste buff. It would feel vastly different to the other tanks since you have these mini ogcd burst phases. However, if they really wanted to de-emphasize T/H from taking part in the 2 min meta they can just make all all dps raid buffs affect them at a lower potency ex. MNK Brotherhood is 5% for all DPS but 2% for T/H. This would just make it so that tanks meeting every 2 mins with the DPS is a nice bonus but not the difference between clear and enrage. Lets try to avoid P8S again where jobs that lined perfectly with that 2 min burst window was heavily favored.