Any reason to launch A4 Savage as an impossible raid?

[ValarianHeartbreaker]

Public Service announcement: The OP, on another FFXIV message board (gamefaqs), is a very well known poster who's probably ignored by around half the users because all he ever does is freaking complain. Every. one. of. his. posts. The guy is NEVER happy about anything. Square would say white, he'd want black, they'd say black, he'd want white. And of course if you defend ANYTHING SE does, according to him, you're a sheep. Don't waste your time people, you're not gonna change his mind, he's either a troll or a very unhappy camper.

No clue why he's still subscribed to a game he seems to despise so much... It's like willingly going to church then complaining on the way back "Can you believe that shit?".

[Alkimi]

AS4 unbeatable with pre-Savage gear: unexpected, but fine.

AS4 unbeatable with full best-in-slot from AS1-3 and all other sources of gear currently in the game: we may have a problem.

Currently, no team out there fulfills the second set of criteria, so this is not yet a problem worth worrying about.

You say that, but most of the top tier teams going for it are probably hovering around i200-205 now and it's still not been beaten. That does not bode well for the majority of "normal raiders" who cleared coil in 2-3 months or so to actually beat this fight at all until 3.2. Savage Alex is the only content in the game that isn't incredibly easy and you're basically locking more people out of it than you did with coil. Perhaps they should have gone with 3 difficulty levels instead of just Faceroll > Virtually Impossible.

[Sove92]

OP has no i210 gear and complains about A4S, when it's very unlikely he's ever been there?

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Perhaps they should have gone with 3 difficulty levels instead of just Faceroll > Virtually Impossible.

The 2 difficulties was a good idea, they shoulda just made normal mode a little harder. The savage is mainly there as a challenge mode. I agree there needs to be challenging content that you don't need a static to participate in though, i just dont think everything needs 3-4 modes.

I would say 2 modes. 24 man raid should have an easy and medium mode. Alex raid can have medium and hard mode. That way there's lots of content at various difficulty levels. Right now its mostly just duty finder/steamroll or static/hardcore. And I don't think 3.1 will change that very much. Most, if not all, of the content will just be duty finder/steamroll

[GrizzlyTank]

No clue why he's still subscribed to a game he seems to despise so much... It's like willingly going to church then complaining on the way back "Can you believe that shit?".

Probably due to industry standards that are just bad..

Making bosses that are purely number checks just isn't a good boss design. And enrage timers could have been made more out of than just "lol times up, now fuck off".

Example, the enrage on A1 could have been a continuous wave of Reisin Bombs throughout the rest of the fight, which would make the shink zone placement a lot harder.

A4 More trash and more people sucked away from the boss.

[Yukiko]

That's not an RPG. It's an action game with RPG elements.

Strange, isnt that the same as we have with FFXIV?
When you talk about gear progress, you mean combat system, and sorry but thats action game like what we have in FFXIV.

[CrystalRainbow]

This is perfect content.

I like Skill + gear = win content.

[SinisterJointss]

What I hear is whining from this post. Nearly every other MMO out there requires a bit of gear to beat the hardest content out there. The fact that you are crying about it brings me happiness. Why? because skill isnt the only thing that should be required to beat the hardest content in the game. and mearly thinking that "it should be that way" tells me how arrogant you are.

I like how they have it set up now, imo its the perfect difficulty. They call it SAVAGE for a reason.

[RiceisNice]

You say that, but most of the top tier teams going for it are probably hovering around i200-205 now and it's still not been beaten....

No team can be sitting at full 200-205 as of this moment. Someone that's in full 200 has at least full esotarics or gordian in all of their slots, including acessories. If they have been gotten table fed with drops and the gobbie items in the first 3 floors, then maybe you have 1 or 2 people out of the full 8 man party that can be ilvl 200 at the very least, but not the entire party.

[Erim-Nelhah]

AS4 unbeatable with pre-Savage gear: unexpected, but fine.

AS4 unbeatable with full best-in-slot from AS1-3 and all other sources of gear currently in the game: we may have a problem.

Currently, no team out there fulfills the second set of criteria, so this is not yet a problem worth worrying about.

This is kinda what I'm worried about myself. If A4S requires the best players in the world to be i200+ to defeat, then how are people who, for whatever reason, can only bring themselves to, say, 85-90% of that performance level supposed to beat it before the next ilvl bump (i.e. while it's still relevant) at all? And don't say "git gud", folks. Sometimes even just lag can make that much difference.

My concern here is that all i210 weapons are locked behind A4 Savage, meaning that until 3.1 comes out, teams who are in full i210 gear + i200 eso wep who can't quite make the enrage for A4 Savage are just SOL. And that may end up being anyone who hasn't already beaten A3S, and even some who have. All this serves to do is frustrate players. I would be a bit less concerned if there was at least some other way to upgrade current Esoteric gear, but that isn't the case.

Here's hoping that the gear requirement isn't quite that high.

--Erim Nelhah