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

[Kuwagami]

I disagree that limited attempt rather than limited successes would be a better time gate- it leads to more frustration and intolerance of people learning.

I really do hate to break your bubble, but there is no tolerance for people learning already, unless there are 8/8 people learning.

Remember Leviathan Hard Mode? Me neither. But you'll remember Extreme.

hmmm nope. It's the exact same fight with a grand total one 2 new mechanics :

1) adds
2) heal debuff

new spumes are just new spumes. Same, the rails going out are just a "you'll die" thingie. Nothing new.

On the other side, I'll remember Chimera from Cutter's cry, or Brayflox (story) last boss, or Qarn last boss. They aren't that hard, only a few gimmicks, but they are fun. Fun to learn, fun to fight, not THAT unforgiving (read here, no one-shot mechanics) but if you mess up too much you'll die. And no amount of gear can help you.

All in all, I'd prefer more bosses of this type but with synced ilevel.

Like, T1 would be synced down to i75 max. T5 would be i90 max, and so on (i60 max for Hard DR, 70 max for expert DR....), without so many insta death mechanics. It would be hard, but feasible, and echo would have a meaning