Quote Originally Posted by Realfoxy View Post
I don't think the excog idea is good, since if it refreshes after despair then your Flare Star will make the manafont fire phase a lot tighter (though you could just make FS refresh AF like I mentioned before). It also wouldn't completely solve the drift problem since you'd still want to use it off cooldown.

I think you could easily fix Manafont by just giving it charges. Decreasing the cooldown to 100s just made the drift problem worse - the shorter the cooldown, the more likely you are to lose a use by drifting. 100s only made it easier to align with 2min cooldowns, but that's pointless because Manafont is not something that gives you burst anyway, yet another example of how SE just does not understand how this job actually functions in fights.
Excog manafont would probably want to be paired with an AF refresh on Flare Star. I'm not sure why it would drift, though, since you'd be able to press the button as soon as it lights up without wasting its effect unless the boss goes untargetable for spans that probably drift everyone else's cooldowns, also.

That said, I don't think Manafont cooldown drift is a problem in the first place. Like, if Manafont's cooldown dropped to 80 or 60, that would be a significant buff, but it would still drift because it's never going to line up perfectly with the end of every single astral cycle and will never be worth cutting an astral cycle short to press immediately. Precisely because it's not a burst ability, it doesn't have to be something that you press immediately at fight start and then every other time that Searing Light or whatever pops up on your buff list. It could just get used as convenient, and improve your overall damage to the extent that it's used and you have the opportunity to discharge the resources it generates for you.