Perfect defense / embrava unbalance

[Zirael]

Do you remember when you were doing salvage and killed normal NMs, that didn't have insta death moves, when a boss's aoe would do 500 damage and was considered dangerous, when you could kill mobs even of the easiest kind without embrava ? This time has gone and we all regret it. SE has been designing mobs and content around PD and embrava since after abyssea, and it is getting in a very bad way in my opinion.

Here is an example of why embrava broke the game ; ADL is not killable without perfect defense, we have yet to see a reported kill, even with a complete alliance of 18. Why ? because SE designed it to cast tier IV - aga spells instantaneously, it casts all enfeeble with aoe version, has severely damaging TP moves (with added effetc silence, bind, terror, petification, blind) which he spams, has instant death TP moves, can split ad infinitum,etc. So they probably designed it with the idea to use PD, and what did players do ? They used perfect defense.


3 man ADL

Here is a video showing why perfect defense is so unbalanced, as a mob that can't be killed with 18 suddenly becomes a joke with 3.

The new Producer has already said he was aware of this issue and it would be addressed as a priority along with all jobs' 2h revamp.
Also, I remember (I think, can't really remember the name) Taint reporting in the BLuegartr Dynamis thread that they have killed ADL without PD, but it involved alliance and partial zombiying.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not particularly a fan of insta-death enemies. Even newest Meeble Burrows is plagued with that; insta-cast AoE Death, AoE Doom/weakness TP move (and Hollowed Water spam failing) or AoE ->1HP TP move, etc.

Edit: As a follow-up to Monchat's post, I'm not so worried about Absolute Virtue, since pretty much at this point everything from him is outdated side-grade/junk, but Pandemonium Warden drops Mulcibar's Scoria, and people will need to kill him reliably for Mythic99. Last form with it's multiiple Astral Flows probably still hurts quite a bit.

[Taint2]

Taint reporting in the BLuegartr Dynamis thread that they have killed ADL without PD, but it involved alliance and partial zombiying.

Just wanted to clear this up. We killed without PD with 12 players, including atleast 3 mules. Our LS isn't even big enough to make an alliance. We tried it for fun at the end of a run and won. We kept him squall locked almost the entire time post split.

The Zombieing was a different kill altogether. We used PD that fight and got unlucky.