Quote Originally Posted by Gurgeh View Post
I'm still not clear on if Synced party Buffs, and people timing their bursts to those, are two separate discussions?
I had assumed you time your raid buff to yourself and that's it. Maybe you stay in sync maybe you don't.
You dont sync party buffs for the sake of using them at the same time, they just all happen to be on a 2 minute cooldown, so by using them after 2 or 3 gcds into the fight, and then every time the cooldown is ready, you are maximizing how many times you use the buff in the fight, and by proxy, you will stay in sync with the rest of the party

This is why some people love/hate the 2 minute window meta, since everything syncs around this 2 min timer, using your hard hitting moves while you have multiple buffs makes a huge spike in your damage

On the flipside, you also have the reason why people hate it so much. If you die, or your cooldowns missalign with the 2 minute burst, then thats it, you damage is gonna be a lot lower for the rest of the fight. Even if you hold your hard hitting cooldowns to sync back into the 2 minute burst, you will be losing 1 or 2 uses in a normal fight, or in some cases its borderline imposible to sync back because your rotation dies when you go down (looking at you summoner)

So to recap, if you are playing well enough to do savage or extremes, you use your buff everytime its ready to get the most uses of it, and by proxy, the 2 minute meta happens

Quote Originally Posted by Gurgeh View Post
And this is why to me PF send extra challenging. How the heck do you get back in sync with no voice, a shit blowing up everywhere
This is why people in PF either do a clean pull for the clear or "wall it" because their buffs are missaligned, people died, etc. They can practice freely and fuck up many times, but for a clear pull, ideally you would want it as clean as posible, or wall it if things go south and try again