Alliance Raids: Does anyone follow mechanics or it just bull rush?

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Originally Posted by Racen

y'all say that this changes but people barely even do mechanics in Rabanastre let alone the Heavensward raid series.

OP: Overgearing = zerg.

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So lets look at Weeping City, second raid in the HW series. First fight - Arachne. If no one gets out of her web to cut the keyknots i think thats a wipe(im not positive about this one). If you dont find a safe spot during the quicksand attack you die. The rest is mostly damage. Second boss - Forgall. If you dont do the mechanic for his megadeath attack you die. If you dont attack the adds in a smart order you probly wipe. The rest is mostly damage. Third boss - Ozma. Overlapping meteors can wipe a party. The rest is mostly damage(though a couple of those attacks are rough). Final boss - Calofisteri. All her attacks are more or less just damage. Haircut in particular only leaves your healer about 2 server ticks to save you before you die. So, looking at this raid as a whole - if you dont do the mechanics you can expect to die a few times and if no one does them you dont clear the second boss. The first fight in Dun Scaith has an enrage timer(and 3 or 4 instant death mechanics) for heavens sake. Yeah, this does get better after Syrcus.

I agree with you OP, the older content is completely ruined for new players... the dev team could easily fix it by adding a ilv cap but most likely they wont do it... it's kinda sad that the new player experience is absolutely trash now alot of fun fights in the older content ain't being sync'd down to what they were originally were like and since anyone can just do them unsync'd now like the extreme fights, coil etc there is alot less players who are looking to make a full group for it via party finder or who are queued in duty finder for them.

Roulette for 24 man raids is only for players who want their rewards, they have no intention of helping others in the actual fight especially now since every mechanic can be ignored due to op ilv of players, those players ain't even there to have some fun, they just want their tomestones/exp :/ poorly thought out from the dev team.

People do not do the fights right and it kills me. Why not add an ilv sync like in some of the arr lv 50 dungeons. Let em be ez but not too simple(no mechs). Why can't the LotA be set at ilv 85 or 90 max? Then set the next part at 100. Leave WoD at ilv 130 because it works. Also, How can they want more people to run the crystal tower quests before 5.0 with it being un-fun. Per the original posts story as one example.

This relates to my absolute biggest issue with this game right now, by far. Old content is just WAY too easy. It's all an absolute faceroll and incredibly boring. I actually feel sorry for people who are starting to play the game right now. The content doesn't even get remotely challenging until maybe the end of stormblood. I've even had friends who have played through the game who were really looking forward to their first raids, such as Crystal Tower and Alexander, only to come out of them saying, and I quote "That was it? That sucked". It's sad, and all I can say is "yeah... but it least it gets better in current content" :/

I only started playing during like 4.1 or something so I actually experienced this myself too, and it honestly hurt my early experience with the game to the point where most trials, dungeons or raids left me disappointed throughout ARR and HW; left me wishing that I could experience the content how it was meant to be instead of just bum rushing through it all without thinking.

Sure, people will say "well if you want to experience it the way it was meant to be then just min ilvl in party finder" but let me tell you, that is not exactly something that is easy to make happen. There is not really enough people in the party finder who is up for doing that kind of thing.