Ping Pong Ball Death Design for bosses lately. Up, down, up, down.

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Originally Posted by Alklios

The actual difficulty once seeing it once isn't too bad as a tank but on my DPS I feel the ARTIFICIAL DIFFICULTY much worse

- Failing most mechanics = death. Either flung off cliff or hit 50-70% HP and shoved into a hazard or a DoT ticking 15-30k.

- Punished for REZZING. "The 5-second" i-frame is mostly taken up by animation lock and you can literally have a floor fall out underneath you, NEW can be hit for 72k HP in the animation , or targeted by drop down or a big AoE in the field coming out of that 2 seconds of running after ANIMATION LOCK will still hit you and kill you.

- All your resolutions are implying healers are working perfectly and atm healing is brutal. I watch my healers mp bar as RDM.

And no, I'm not going to spoiler just because you are one of the sweaties called out for trying to make casual modes ruthless XD

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Healer main who's too lazy to look up proper openers, etc. here - Healing at the moment is not brutal lol. It's something that requires us to actually heal though, which is great.

If by punished for ressing you mean, that you, a RDM, are punished for helping people ress, I'm sorry man, but if you're hardcasting Verraise, you're doing it wrong. Put a Vercure on the tank or something and then cast Verraise

Also uh. Tools like rot13 exist? I'm fairly certain phpBB - the forum software the FFXIV forums use, even has a spoiler section feature.

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Originally Posted by Urielparadox

O.O You aren't animation locked after ]

Talking about the being rezzed.

3 of the "5 seconds" of i-frames are taken up by an unavoidable animation

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Originally Posted by Alklios

Right, and :

-the floor can fall out from underneath you

Or

- The animation lock keeps you in a large AoE incoming that you have no chance to run out of that will either flat out kill you OR shove you into Hazard that puts a DoT to kill you before a cure II cast

Or

- rez sickness healers can't get you up in time for 60-70% raid wide attack

Idk why y'all think that the I-frames will keep you safe the next 5-10 seconds.

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As multiple people have already pointed out, the 5 seconds of I-Frames aren't applied until after the animation has finished. And five seconds really is more than plenty, unless you're looking away from the screen while waiting for a ress, lol.

Because unless the floor falls from underneath you - in which case, it's the resser's mistake, you *are* safe.

You wouldn't be using Cure II to get someone up to max anyway after a ress, you'd be using a Benediction or some other oGCD heal.

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Originally Posted by Alklios

Hrmmm I saw more than one post complaining about raw difficulty of game while I'm complaining about the artificial difficulty

If you think casual content is boring Then do Savage/Extreme/Ultimate. Literally what is made for.

Idm taking months for gear and prefer it that way. I don't PvE in WoW for a reason

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Endwalker's normal content was so genuinely boring that it actually pushed me to do that. Also lmao WoW PvP is infinitely more sweaty than anything below late Heroic.

But also, there should be a mid-point between "I can literally do this content while asleep" and hardcore content.

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Originally Posted by Alklios

I'm gonna wrap up this post with explaining the difference between real Difficulty and Artificial Difficulty.

REAL DIFFICULTY: A telegraph you can react to in reasonable time. And save yourself/someone else can.

Example: Old Monster hunter games.

Make Mistake and big monkey hits u for 80% of ur HP.
You can: Stay down, get life powdered, teammate aggros off, get up and panic dive/farcaster.

Example: Older FF14 Content Casual Fights.

Make Mistake Get hit 50% of HP [maybe 70% if in lower gear back then], vuln stack. I can GET my health back up by healer/vercure/second wind/bloodbath and second mistake will be more costly but maybe not die.

ARTIFICIAL DIFFICULTY:

And AT LAST CURRENT CASUAL FF14 CONTENT

Example: SOME DT fights:

- Fail mechanic, take 50-70% of hp. Vulnerability. Thrown into Hazard/Left with DoT that will kill you in 1-2 ticks. Your bloodbath/vercure/second wind will not save you. Your healer has to be in perfect condition to keep you alive.

- Rez animation locked to fall off cliff or be stuck in large AoE that is going to resolve after I-Frames, no rescue available.

- Rez sick healers unable to keep you alive from the INSANE party wide pressure/ other teammates dead/dying from ONE MISTAKE.

Does this sound like how a Casual Game Mode should be?

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No it doesn't. And that's kind of the point. This isn't what casual content is like in FFXIV at all. Sure if your healer throws out literally all their oGCDs the moment someone takes a minor scratch, then sure. But that's a literal skill issue. A Haima will take care of most of the DoT just fine. Or a Taurochole for that matter.

Yeah, you can be ressed into the ground disappearing below you. You can also be rescued away from that happening. I'd know. I've ressed someone into that exact situation and rescued them out of it. The fights aren't that brutal that you genuinely do need rescue up every 5 seconds to save people.