Bring Back the Soul To FFXIV:ARR

[i2agnarok]

"Challenging Fates" just feels like it's whether you have the numbers or not and not much tactics involved. Players don't have to be in a party and work together. NMs/HNMS are more design for party and require some strategy and co-op.

I disagree somewhat. Stereopes is my favorite Fate in the entire game (I will actually sync and go participate if its up while I'm out and about) because there aren't AOE markers, there are adds everywhere, there are people dying everywhere and its about as chaotic as anything can actually get without being Odin/Behemoth or in an instance. Because people are running around, you can't just cheese it out like the Svara strategy, as someone's going to aggro adds at some point while running from tonze or something.

Yes, you can continue to throw people at it until it goes down, but anything in the game that isn't in an instance is going to have that.

Actually, everyone keeps talking about strategy and co-op being necessary for these, but I can't find any strategies for actually tackling one of these that aren't Absolute Virtue (and lol at that), other than "can be solo'd by x class using y" and literally nothing else. Someone can take one of these and give a memorable example of a strategy needed to defeat one? I'd load a video, but I'm pretty sure I would either get a challenge/solo video, or one that makes the entire encounter look trivial.