Quote Originally Posted by Ferocious View Post
Are people really surprised with the lack of gear check? That first T5 kill video had i70-80 geared folks in it. It's the mechanics that seem not too challenging, which has caused it to be downed so quickly. I see those guys said that they could have downed it few days ago, but had technical issues. So when you consider that, the toughest fight in the game is beat roughly two weeks after release and we're stuck with it for 6 months! Don't worry about other FCs beating it. Once the mechanics get leaked, kills start flowing in which is what will happen now.
If SE wants a proper gear check break point, they need larger raids. None of this 4 boss per Binding Coil nonsense. I'm hoping they improve upon that in the future. A good raid tier needs at least 8 fully fleshed out bosses, with the beef gate point being around 5 bosses in and the last being a true gear and skill check.

The way I see it, T8 was supposed to be the 'gear check', but seems undertuned given the clears. Perhaps the Second Coil is in need of some rebalancing.