Having higher level gear shouldn't BREAK coil runs!!!

[SarcasmMisser]

We don't slow down DPS at all in T7 for the record but there are certainly situations in the game where you turn DPS off full-throttle, ramuh comes to mind. There's also literal red light mechanics in the game.

[Tupsi]

It is punishment for high dps no matter how it's sliced and I'd like to know SE's reason behind it.

Like any game that shoul;d require more strategy than just zerg things dead. Take a Capture the flag game, heading straight down the middle will likely almost always end in death right? Tunnelvisioning should be punished, but in this example (ARR) it's more like trying to beat the script by overgearing for content. Why would T6 be designed to be take out with full High Allagan gear when you can't get fullset unless you beat T6-9? Leviathan only drops i95 stuff, you can break his script to the point he never dives/body slams beyond the first one....

Think of how easy end-game would be if they didn't at least force the players to do something other than zerg even if its "hold off for a few seconds." They want a simplistic battle system and gameplay, this is the best way within that design.

[MrSigy]

^
I still love it everytime newer people get into levi and are like,
Shit, WHAT IS THIS!?

[CGMidlander]

If SE decides to take the lazy solution to this, they might just slap an ilvl sync on. lol

[Nekodar]

I wonder... Do you continue to DPS when A-rank and S-rank elite marks go into one of their reflect damage moves?
Or do you hold so that you don't kill yourself?

[Kerowyn]

/Sigh lol Now this is different. "Our dps is Roxxorz and it broke content SE should fix" really? If your DPS is that much higher then make adjustments to your strat. This is what happens when people go out and find cookie cutter strats, learn and memorize and cant think for themselves.

[RathSkybreaker]

Sorry, I'm not really interested in fights that become brain dead easy after I get super geared. The fact that T7 changed week to week for awhile for my group until we figured out how we wanted to hold DPS was really fun, and never held us back from getting the clear that week.

[Dano]

holding DPS is hard yo

[Sylve]

Heh, Pharos Sirius. First boss. Overgeared people trying to zerg him and ignore adds when it first came out. That was a hilarious time. Hell people still try that now, get overwhelmed by adds, then cry about a bad group lol.

More of the same really. If you know that an early phase shift can and will wipe you, then do not shift the phase early. Have your DDs not hit cooldowns or something.

Raiding is about communication and co-ordination with a side serving of stat requirements.

[Askarya]

But thats the thing you dont need to slow down dps in any fight. Literally in any of them.

Like, if renault is / are about to be unpetrified, make the bard use shadowbind or your summoner simply swiftcast tri disaster and carry on. Yes, it work. Have to be also really really quick and aware but doable.

Shht that you can just rebind them is top secret! xD

/Sigh lol Now this is different. "Our dps is Roxxorz and it broke content SE should fix" really? If your DPS is that much higher then make adjustments to your strat. This is what happens when people go out and find cookie cutter strats, learn and memorize and cant think for themselves.

Sad thing is, if their dps would be really that high they wouldn't have that much problems. At a certain point voices will align perfectly again, in T8 it's only between two certain points that field + towers getting unsynced after you pass this point they're perfectly fine again. And for other fights like primals, if you have the dps to push them you also have the dps to handle multiple adds at the same time etc.