Abilities locked behind 120s buffs

[Karshan]

Thank you for your views. I'm not entirely sure why they did it nor do I curse their design, they are cool skills.
I'm just saying it puts some jobs at a disadvantage, because 120s buffs are one of the rare occurences of skills you'd want to sometimes DELAY ; And now it can be a DPS loss to do so. But only for some jobs, which I find unfair.

If really they want to reduce button bloat, they could put it in combo with other 120s that you do use on cooldown ALWAYS, no matter the encounter design. Or as some of you have mentioned, rethink them entirely.

[Carighan]

Ah I see that more as a smidge of player agency and player gameplay that the game has not formularized and automated for us.

As in, this is truly good.

Say you got two Red Mages: You could overlap your buffs to ensure all of your abilities including the new oGCDs go under the full stack of raidbuffs. This would increase the damage of the red mage who makes that decision, sure.

BUT: This lowers the group damage. Who would do more damage if said Red Mage delays their burst cycle until after the first empower, and then does their burst. They personally deal less damage, but the group as a whole deals more = successful optimization by player interaction. Not gameplay mechanics.

This is important IMO, and it's sad so much of it was taken away.

[Tunda]

2 min kills job design for sure..

I can't remember when I enjoyed FFXIV combat, 1 min was way better and more satisfying

[Nero-Voidstails]

aren't gonna lie as long as the game balance is toward the 2, minute burst I don't think they can fix much not gonna lie

[Zakuyia]

If the cooldown could be shorter ppl would complain sadly :/ look at shadow bringer dancer ppl complained about dancer technical and step dance and boom it got an increase.