Hey, Sincerely Thank You SE for easing up on Coil

[LiveVoltage]

Okay guys. So I will be eating my own words now. Balmung isnt full of greedy, money grubbing players and statics. However, a static saw it kind enough to bestow upon me the gift of a free T5 clear and for that I am eternally grateful. ;-;

She did say though that alot of statics on the servers across the USA and Europe are greedy and elitist so there is that. Ultimantely, while my win was provided by people of a high level static, all completely outfitted with SCOB gear, the point still remains that the difficulty curb for T5 is too much with the instant kill mechanics it has. My biggest issue with the Twisters phase because if you didnt have people that knew what they were doing or you couldnt DPS the Dread to death quickly enough, it was an almost guaranteed wipe.

My choice would be to remove dread's for phase 4 so that way the only thing the players would need to worry about is twister.

[Kinseykinz]

My choice would be to remove dread's for phase 4 so that way the only thing the players would need to worry about is twister.

Or keep dreads, but make twisters not KO unless party members are 'too close' when they go off. This way, the integrity of the battle is in-tact, people still need to spread/pay attention/dps more than twin, but the 'insta-kill' portion is removed.
As to the dread insta-kill mechanic, i'd say keep it...but that could also be changed to a super-long stun lock that more or less takes that person out of the battle for a longer period of time if reached and/or twister bait.

Although that said, my change technically makes it so people will expect healers to carry a heavier burden (technically no one but the tank should get hit in this phase. Period)...and I don't know if it's fair to say 'yo we made it easier...except for you healers, good luck with that'

Most of the reason DF and T5 remains a hellscape is:
1. Divebombs. I don't exactly want them removed...but maybe make them function and hit more like ST's version will assist people. As if they worked like ST, the 'stack in the corner' method would be silly, just stand center and let her knock you then heal. (ideally the targeted person would get away from others(or the non-targeted could move away)...but rarely do they do that in ST...typically the let the whole group eat it)

2. Twisters+Dreads. This is a combination of things.
-Lack of 'Focus Target' AND watching for twisters
-Too spread out and can't attack Dread easily and/or too close to center and they don't give DPS enough time window to kill dread b/c they stand too close.
-Panic/not clear on what to do/where to go next.

The actual DPS checks themselves, conflags/snakes/even dreads actually are easily met at this point by most teams...the issues (and why people die), are 'knowing what to pay attention to' and knowing where to stand/position. So my suggestion would be make it so player positioning is less critical (IE doesn't lead to 1-shot kills of yourself/MPK's) and more people would down this fight...via DF/PF without near as much trouble. All the actual DPS/Healer/Tank checks could remain in place.

[Taika]

Okay guys. So I will be eating my own words now. Balmung isnt full of greedy, money grubbing players and statics. However, a static saw it kind enough to bestow upon me the gift of a free T5 clear and for that I am eternally grateful. ;-;

Grats on the win! Now that you got it, you should put the good, helpful attitude forward and help others who still haven't cleared it to get theirs.