Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Ooshima]

IDK - the fact that each and every one of the fights in this game is pretty much scripted and yet there are so many players who can't clear it, you guys sure you want battles with high degree of randomness?

Don't tell me that some players who can't clear things like Titan is due to lag. It's not that I do not acknowledge that latency is an issue. Because it is an issue, no matter a scripted fight or a random fight it WILL still be an issue. If you can't dodge 1x WotL you can't dodge 4x WotL (if you are that bad luck to get 4 in succession due to RNG) consecutively. It doesn't really change a thing.

If you can't observe a preset, scripted battle it will be even tougher to do randomized battles. It demands higher sense of awareness and able to react and decide your actions and counter actions at the snap of a second. These are all the traits of a top end player gunning for world firsts/rankings.

And not to forget, it will even demand lesser latency and better connection than ever.

And sorry that I would disagree - because coil 2 is a significant test of skill and a step up from coil 1. I have seen players who could comfortably faceroll coil 1 before echo facing difficulties in coil 2. You need skill to be able to push more DPS on DPS checks and gear only can help you with very little. If you don't have the discipline to watch for debuffs T7 will tear your party apart. If you do not have everything to clear T6-T8 and learn from it, you won't be able to clear T9.. Comparing T5 with T9, T5 was way easier (not because of gear, I'm comparing first attempts).