Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
Except you can't pull potency out of the burst window. The constraint of the 2-min meta is that every 2-minutes you need to put all of your major potency skills into the 15 second window or you fall massively behind.
Just look at old Paladin, in a vacuum there was actually no problem with it, it was one of the highest dps tanks. But it didn't matter, it's sustained damage playstyle couldn't put enough potency into the buff windows so as soon as you stepped into a group environment it completely fell off a cliff.

This consequently requires everything else to revolve around said window as well, your cooldowns, your resource generation, even your rotational loop in most cases.There are just too many stacking damage modifiers in that current burst window that any job not designed around it can't compete.
There is no interesting rotational variety because every job needs to be able to burst at exactly those windows and fit it all in a comparatively small time frame.
A perfect example of this would be the aforementioned Dark Knight where you actually put 1-2 Floods into the minute Trick Attacks as a "resource dump." While hardly revolutionary, it at least added some measure of thought over mindlessly spamming it every two minutes. Dragoon is another example. They specifically talked about adding charges to Spineshatter Dive in response to player feedback about not having a gapcloser. Except due to how the burst meta works, you're always incentivized to hold both charges for the two minute window unless you know for certain it'll cost you a GCD to disengage.