Quote Originally Posted by Ggwppino View Post
Yes and no. Having a button to press every 2 minutes isn't that complicated.
Clearly if the meta remains what it is, you will practically lose just one button and it is still a simplification.

In my opinion, to modernize the gameplay we should move away from the burst phases every 60/120 seconds.
Quote Originally Posted by Rychu View Post
Yeah see this guy gets it. People that choose option 2, don't choose it because "oh just get rid of it and let it be that". Option 2 is chosen under the assumption that getting rid of the 2 minute meta will free up the job designers to do different things with each job.
Those pace-making alternative additions aren't incompatible with at least having something to fall back onto (i.e., the pace-making caused by raid buffs) when those other elements aren't in place in the given fight, though?

You can have shorter DPS checks set pacing for CD usage. You can have new undermechanics set pacing for CD usage. You can have all of the above. And you could still have raidbuffs atop that. Net optimization is still a factor regardless; they are not mutually exclusive.