Please increase the buff cap to at least 40

[SaitoHikari]

just ignore macchiato, at this point Im just convinced their only reason for being on the forums is to show how much they hate SE and not contribute to any meaningful conversations.

Anyways, this new fiasco does indeed show more evidence why the 2-minute buff meta is just not the best direction to take for the balancing of this game; when you're actively punished for doing so!

TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if the only reason issues like these keep being ignored for so long is because people keep forcing unrelated topics like parsing into them (especially on the English side). Topics that the dev team don’t want to touch with a 10 foot pole.

I saw this a lot before I took my nearly three year break at the start of lockdowns, and it seems to have gotten worse since then. Main difference being all the people I remember back in the day calling this behavior out either left the forums or got baited into bans in the meantime.

[Hobi]

[Aco505]

I have posed a question regarding the buff cap in hopes that it'll get some attention in the upcoming Q&A event.

Please like it if you agree with them increasing the buff cap!

Link: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6201445

[TomsYoungerBro]

I have posed a question regarding the buff cap in hopes that it'll get some attention in the upcoming Q&A event.

Please like it if you agree with them increasing the buff cap!

Link: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6201445

With the newest ultimate out, this question actually becomes really really interesting. Considering that comps hitting the buff cap in TOP was supposedly "intentional" (according to the devs) requiring groups to either change comps or change burst timing strategies, increasing the buff cap to 40 would remove this intentional mechanic completely. While one fight shouldn't dictate a change that may be necessary, I do believe it will hold some weight in the argument for the dev team.

[Atelier-Bagur]

With the newest ultimate out, this question actually becomes really really interesting. Considering that comps hitting the buff cap in TOP was supposedly "intentional" (according to the devs) requiring groups to either change comps or change burst timing strategies, increasing the buff cap to 40 would remove this intentional mechanic completely. While one fight shouldn't dictate a change that may be necessary, I do believe it will hold some weight in the argument for the dev team.

It was kinda of a given thing seeing how easy it is to hit the buff cap in that fight, so believing that the internal testers never caught it is kinda bonkers to believe but whatever. It felt like an intentional design due to the nature of Omega, now regarding whether people like this mechanic or not is another thing.

[TomsYoungerBro]

It was kinda of a given thing seeing how easy it is to hit the buff cap in that fight, so believing that the internal testers never caught it is kinda bonkers to believe but whatever. It felt like an intentional design due to the nature of Omega, now regarding whether people like this mechanic or not is another thing.

Considering there was an auto attack at the start of P3 that was so quick it killed WF groups over and over and wasn't intentional...Yes, it is very understandable to think they might've not caught it XD. However, someone did report it as a bug and the devs came back as it being intentional.

[Aco505]

Considering that comps hitting the buff cap in TOP was supposedly "intentional" (according to the devs)

When did they say this? Could you provide a source?

[TomsYoungerBro]

When did they say this? Could you provide a source?

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...c-buff-debuffs

It is in "working as intended"

[Aco505]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...c-buff-debuffs

It is in "working as intended"

Yes, the fact that there's a cap of 30 is working as intended but it doesn't mean that the game itself should be like this due to the issues it creates.

They already increased the cap in the past and they should do it again as the list of procs and buffs we get keeps going higher and higher.

[Aco505]

I have posed a question regarding the buff cap in hopes that it'll get some attention in the upcoming Q&A event.

Please like it if you agree with them increasing the buff cap!

Link: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6201445

Bumping this for visibility and because the question was not asked but I will keep trying to reach them in future Q&As.