Buff Arcane Circle to be 5%

[Zaphias]

Simple request, Reaper at one point had a unique effect of its buff being 20s vs everyone else who had a 15s buff, however since all buffs were standardized, it seems that someone has forgotten to make Arcane Circle 5% from 3%. Please fix this thank you.

I've never used the official forums before so I do not know the etiquette here.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

3% or 5% doesn't matter, it's part of Reaper's damage contribution as a whole. It will either lead to Reaper being straight up buffed or cause personal damage nerfs to its attacks to counteract buffing Arcane Circle to 5%.

I'd prefer if things became less standardized, not more.

[GhostZukin]

I'd rather they just remove jank Arcane Circle and just give Plentiful Harvest a flat 120s cd at this point. Not every job needs to have a 2 minute raidwide buff -- especially when it's tied to gauge and sometimes just used selfishly, unattached from the rest of the party's buffs (like my experience in TOP.) If anything, it'd give the Maiming armor set a selfish DPS if they did just delete Arcane Circle entirely.

[Supersnow845]

Arcane circle is probably top of the list alongside searing light, the buff portion of starry muse and battle litany for pointless 2 minute buffs that could be replaced with personal damage as an easy way to break apart the two minute meta

[Carighan]

I'd rather they just remove jank Arcane Circle and just give Plentiful Harvest a flat 120s cd at this point. Not every job needs to have a 2 minute raidwide buff -- especially when it's tied to gauge and sometimes just used selfishly, unattached from the rest of the party's buffs (like my experience in TOP.) If anything, it'd give the Maiming armor set a selfish DPS if they did just delete Arcane Circle entirely.

Come to think of it, I'd prefer if they take a bit from PvP and make it so that deaths contribute damage over the whole 2 minutes to the next Plentiful Harvest. Of course the damage is still balanced around the non-augmented one, but hey, party deaths feed the Reaper! :>

[IOwn92FCHouses]

Arcane circle is probably top of the list alongside searing light, the buff portion of starry muse and battle litany for pointless 2 minute buffs that could be replaced with personal damage as an easy way to break apart the two minute meta

So, in order to combat the 2 minute meta, you remove buffs from 2 minutes on some jobs, which would still be best used within 2 minute windows, changing nothing. Outstanding idea.

No, the only way to deal with the 2m meta is to add back 60s, 90s, and 180s. Trick attack being a 60s alone allowed for meaningful decisions and gameplay to occur within job rotations. The solution to the problem is to remove the changes that fucked things in the first place. Not double down on the problem LMFAO

[Supersnow845]

So, in order to combat the 2 minute meta, you remove buffs from 2 minutes on some jobs, which would still be best used within 2 minute windows, changing nothing. Outstanding idea.

No, the only way to deal with the 2m meta is to add back 60s, 90s, and 180s. Trick attack being a 60s alone allowed for meaningful decisions and gameplay to occur within job rotations. The solution to the problem is to remove the changes that fucked things in the first place. Not double down on the problem LMFAO

If you removed all the pointless fluff buffs that have multiplicative effects that would also help because right now if you added back some 90’s it would be a gain to just use them once every 2 minutes anyway because of buffs. The entire rotation being now being built with its cooldowns around the two minute meta is also a problem but you’d have to put ridiculous potency outside the 2 minute window for people to not just ignore cooldowns to hold it for 2 minutes anyway if you don’t get rid of stacking fluff buffs

Both are needed but standardising arcana circle at 5% is the last thing anyone needs

[brinn12]

I also prefer less standardized jobs, but I wouldn't mind them dropping the 2% difference. The gameplay wouldn't change in the slightest. They've already homogenized buff durations and damage types anyway. Having 60s or 90s buffs on the other hand is gameplay changing, and they are completely gone from this game.

[Rithy255]

Just remove it along with the other raid buffs at this point, whats the point in every job having the same generic buff skill if it only limits rotation differences into being strict minute-2minute timers, anything else does work.

Unless they want to make buffs a unique feature or with different timers to jobs they should just do away with them entirely so jobs can exist outside of burst widows.

[Carighan]

Nah I'd rather turn most buffs into something passive or semi-passive, or "fed". That is, remove the ability to reliably fire it, either by it being up all the time, or via needing something you cannot guarantee.

Of course, the former should not be needed in FFXIV, as that's what the group composition bonus is meant to replace. Still we have bards cycling their songs, and maybe as a unique thing that's fine but then it ought to be a much much higher portion of their power budget and hence be much stronger.

But the second is interesting. If say Monks needed to use their procs to store a resource they could then spend on either of their party buffs, the reliable 2 minutes timer would be gone. Get lucky and you would not want to sit on it. Get extra lucky and you'd be using mantra as the buff is still up. But get unlucky and you go 3-4 minutes without using either buff. Unreliable => no guaranteed sync window.
Something likewise could easily be done for most effects. Ninja debuff for example could just be a quite rare proc on autoattacks. Strong when it happens and decently lasting, but just doesn't happen very often. People can react to it, store some CDs they can accumulate charges of, check the debuff bar, dump them when the debuff is up => more reactive gameplay.