It’s no less restrictive than being on a 1 min cooldown; you’d still have to press it on cooldown. And yeah, of course a tank with a raid buff should have lower damage, I didn’t suggest otherwise. There is no world where a job that has a raid buff should do more damage than a job without a raid buff. My goal is not to make PLD meta. My goal is to better adjust it to the 2 min burst design, and these are merely suggestions.

Also GNB can hold its stacks yes… and a gauge is just a visual representation of that? So far it seems to me the only issue you have is that I suggested a similar gauge to gunbreaker as a representation of atonement stacks. Would you have said the same if I said it should cost 50 gauge? Because at that point it seems to me you don’t like the optics of the design of a gauge like GNB (being that it holds 3 charges) rather than it actually being a bad idea.

Also I understand not everyone likes the 2 min design philosophy. I’m not trying to say that this is the most fun PLD design because fun is subjective, so it’s not that helpful here. I’m simply trying to offer a PLD rework that better fits with Endwalker’s design philosophy while changing the core rotation as little as possible. The only things my suggestion changes is that each triple atonement is replaced with a Royal Authority combo, FoF is a raid buff, and that atonement becomes an oGCD. Beyond that it’s basically the same. The drop in Req stacks is just because you have to drop a GCD in the rotation anyway, so the design should account for this. You can just adjust potencies to compensate