The constant disbanding of Steps of Faith

[Nalien]

It is hard to tell actually how much things have really been nerfed.

My run just after the severs went live contained 6 people who had already cleared and all members were well geared.

Every time I'd done it, I really enjoyed how tense it was. Like the original Demon Wall where there was an actual possibility of him reaching the end. Every time I've beaten it there were two people on cannons, every Dragon Killer landed and he was still getting close to the end, if not already hitting it.

Going off what Krylo said; Only one person on cannon, presumably the first Dragon Killer landed, no Snares on second, killed him before third.

That's a shitty nerf. I was perfectly fine with the patch notes, sounded like the encounter would be much more forgiving but still retain the same feel, the only worry I had was how much HP they knocked off him. Seems like I was right to worry about that.

True, it doesn't matter for me. I've already beaten it, it's just another Trail in the Roulette which has had the life sucked out of it, right up down there with Garuda. I imagine it matters for some of my friends who hadn't gotten to it/beaten it but actually enjoy a challenge, though.

Guess I'm just going to stop recommending XIV based on its story, unless I think "Fetch quests and lifeless instances with zero challenge" would appeal to someone, the story itself might be nice, but I generally play RPGs for the gameplay and story, SE seems intent of gutting the gameplay from the story though. This is quickly becoming a "Play it now or not at all" sort of deal, if you don't get in there and do the content as it comes you can enjoy sleeping through encounters.

Would have preferred Echo, at least you can cancel that off if you actually want to enjoy the game.

[Krylo]

Going off what Krylo said; Only one person on cannon, presumably the first Dragon Killer landed, no Snares on second, killed him before third.

Pretty much. I was on DKs so first landed, yeah. Second one I shot after he used landwaster because he was already at 11% hp and I had run all the way up there and felt like doing a slight troll (which killed at least one DPS from his jump smash) as we already won anyway. He died like. . . right after the exploding kegs.

Definitely over nerfed, but then I guess people will have no reason to leave duty anymore.

They also cut stomp damage roughly in half (I ran under one of his feet at the start to test it).

[Nalien]

Definitely over nerfed, but then I guess people will have no reason to leave duty anymore.

I just hope they're not now looking over Heavensward content and thinking about nerfing it before we at least get a shot at it. If they think this kind of response was needed, then they must have even less faith in the average player than I have....