The two minute burst

[Amon-ster]

You're just now starting to recognize a big issue I have with XIV's gameplay: the lack of player expression. They've long since hitched their hat on the idea of coordinated raid buff alignment, as this became a thing ever since it was discovered that buffs were multiplicative. While some people enjoy the thrill of the entire team blowing their load every 2 minutes, I personally find it boring to have to follow a very strict rotation throughout an entire encounter that, ideally, never changes. Between scripted fights and scripted rotations, it often makes repeat runs of content very boring for me. However, I think that's just a overall negative on tab-target games as a whole rather than being strictly XIV exclusive. I don't think it's going to change at all, but you just asked for people's opinion on the matter so there's mine -- I don't like it.

[FlareVyzar]

You are free to push things on CD and will do just fine.

But i don't think it is the right way, to grief players who have raid buffs just for personal damage. You lose nothing, but are able to provide so much more to the group.

Buffs stack multiplicatively, this means 2 min bursts are huge damage gains for the whole group.

A simple example:
Majority of mediocre RDM will get around 400 rdps from embolden on a party that plays randomly or not decently optimal.

A good group will feed an RDM atleast 750+ rdps from embolden alone.

Now when you count other raid buffs. You are looking at around 2k + raid dps gains. 2k rdps is massive right now with the stat squish.

Other than that, this is a crucial skill to acquire when you are aiming for day1-3/week 1 to month 1 clear, especially first 2 weeks. It is not only use in parsing/optimization. Because once you learn how to play well in muscle memory. You will be able to replicate that in prog without having to worry about parsing. It becomes natural play.