It would be really neat, just from a community standpoint, for the development team in charge of testing and balancing Savage and Ultimate raid encounters to release a video of the "developer intended" way that fights are cleared internally. I can totally understand not wanting to do this while the content is current, as it may disrupt the emerging strategies in PF and whatnot, but a patch or two later? I feel like it would be super interesting to compare and contrast how the developers "intended" for mechanics and fights to be solved with how the community ends up solving those same mechanics and fights.
Just a fun suggestion that could be an interesting piece of community outreach!
A suggestion for the Raid Balance/Testing Team
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04-01-2026, 03:22 AMSierra291A suggestion for the Raid Balance/Testing Team
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04-01-2026, 03:44 AMKohashi
We will most likely have another P8s Incident where Yoshi-P will say "git good" because their testing team had no issues clearing the fight..LOL.
There is no dev intended, as it is very much intended to be solved in several ways, which I personally appreciate a lot. -
04-01-2026, 04:24 AMJeeqbit
1. They don't always intend just 1 way.
2. The normal modes often indicate the intended solution ie. bramble arrangement in E9. In practice, we placed brambles in an uptime arrangement in Savage.
3. The intended solutions are usually pretty obvious and in many cases there's only 1 way to do a mech anyway. -
04-01-2026, 04:40 AMAzurarok
didn't they mention players adopted a different solution for M7S from theirs, which wouldn't have killed RDM's uptime?
Pretty sure that was the main reason they made the Manafication change later. -
04-01-2026, 05:02 AMRein_eon_OsborneOddly enough, I thought of something in similar vein as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azurarok
They may not do it by recording a footage of their team solving the mechanics. But half of the time, they certainly show with subtlety regarding how they want XYZ mechanics to be solved via job gameplay adjustment patches lol. I.e. things like reaching another party progging in another instance with Temperance /s