Please stop removing Damage Over Time effects from every job, add more complexity

[Lyth]

I'm not really sure why you would want to use modular arithmetic to describe DoT truncation. Unless you just encountered it in an introductory number theory course and were really excited about the concept or something.

You probably could design a DoT focused job from the ground up that conforms to the 'rules' of job synergy. Time magic would be a great way to do it. Perhaps you freeze your DoTs so that they continue to tick without the timer changing, and then accelerate all the timers to do burst or deal with phase changes. I don't think that clipping is that much of a design problem with DoTs either, as you can simply design timers that can be extended twice in a row. It would be interesting if the focus wasn't on actually recasting DoTs, but rather utilizing a set of buffs to build up the momentum going into burst.

[Shurrikhan]

I'm not really sure why you would want to use modular arithmetic to describe DoT truncation. Unless you just encountered it in an introductory number theory course and were really excited about the concept or something.

DoTs surpass filler damage after a number of seconds. If the jumps make it so you're losing the ability to get that DoT's number of seconds to redeem itself, it screws over the DoT user. Call it modular math or whatever else you like, but it's not as if it's anything advanced. It was just one of many spitball ways to approximate relative value.

The larger point, though, was merely that if a job is balanced around being able to use a given DoT every so often, and now there's a forced break in that that pace that reduces its uptime (or number of effective casts within a given total fight length), simply switching to a less screwed over alternative isn't about to bail out a DoT job. Just like having a jump occur right as your burst CDs or combo finisher (before the combo timers were so extended) would.

You probably could design a DoT focused job from the ground up that conforms to the 'rules' of job synergy.

Yeah, that'd be great. I'm not sure what 'rules' create anything as neat as your examples, but... I'd love to see that applied there and elsewhere.