Savage Clear rate being lower the Devs expected, good or a bad thing?

[vp_cmc]

Also... You know, there are easy ways to nerf a fight without touching its core. Tune down HPs a bit to ease the dps check, give more time on the enrage timer (both easier as it eases the dps check, and harder as your top notch attention is required longer)... You don't even need to touch a single mechanic.

Better gear next patches will ease dps checks on it's own, no need to change the raid just for this. Think about people who are learning it right now - what they feel when SE nerfs the fight, and they get their kill just because of this.

[Zojha]

Think about people who are learning it right now - what they feel when SE nerfs the fight, and they get their kill just because of this.

Uhm...assuming they would feel strongly about it in any way, how would these people feel about upgrading their gear? It must be a horrible inner conflict, because they're essentially nerfing the fight for themselves. I imagine the statics healer go:"NO! I DON'T WANT THAT NEW 210 PIECE, LEAVE ME ALONE, I CAN DO THIS WITH MY LAW ACCS! T_T"

I truly pity these people. All 24 of them.

[Miscreant]

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All of you are complaining about the 'cheese' strat, but you know it's still hard right? It's not like T2, it removes one mechanic from the last 2 phases but creates problems of it's own.

I would be against nerfs to A4 as well, my group is progressing on it at the moment and I would much rather do it in it's original form.

The thing is with the new weapons coming on Tuesday and easier access to 210 gear these fights are already going to be considerably easier.

[rappa]

Last. Ability macro calling gives a clearly unfair advantage seeing as they will let you know what boss is doing without even looking at the boss even if no one in your party is looking at it.

Also youre not going to tell me you have time to read a paper sheet while killing a boss. Legit people remember whole boss scripts in their mind as there's no time to look arround a paper sheet for which att he's gonna do next.

Do you know a secret? Move your battle log chat from the tabs and put in a place you can read.
Go to Character Configuration window => Log Windows Settings. Select Battle from Log Filters.

Uncheck All from chat, battle, announcements, go to the select box and uncheck all from "you", "party member", "alliance Member", and the others options. Now nothing will show in your battle log. No damage, nor buff, nor heals. nor chat.

Select the option "Engaged Enemy" and check "actions initiated by engaged enemies", "Beneficial Effects granted by engaged Enemies", "detrimental effects inlficted by engaged enemies"

Only with this you are ready to check when Quarantine is coming, which legs need to be stun, casting spells from bosses or enemies.



Ps3 and ps4 could use this "cheat", be careful read information about the game could damage your ingame experience ;...;

[l---------------l]

To have a low rate of completion IS GOOD.

In other games people whines that all you have remaining is PvP, because PvE is just too easy... Then when they name that FFXIV is super casual, I can take a big breath with pride and say "Did you do Alexander Savage?" and shut their mouth instantly.

[Miscreant]

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Parsers read from your battle logs though, personally I would rather know my group are on track dps wise and read the cast bars, but then I don't use triggers the focus target bar works just fine for me, not that I have any problem with triggers for that matter.

[RiceisNice]

To have a low rate of completion IS GOOD.

In other games people whines that all you have remaining is PvP, because PvE is just too easy... Then when they name that FFXIV is super casual, I can take a big breath with pride and say "Did you do Alexander Savage?" and shut their mouth instantly.

Not when it starts bleeding subscriptions and causing player exodus, leading to dead servers. The developer's objectives should not be busting the player's balls with nigh unbeatable content (which savage accomplishes when it's paired with how ridiculously faceroll normal is) rather than challenging (which savage only does to the top percent of players, and even they feel it's overtuned in some areas)

[Phireblast]

To have a low rate of completion IS GOOD.

In other games people whines that all you have remaining is PvP, because PvE is just too easy... Then when they name that FFXIV is super casual, I can take a big breath with pride and say "Did you do Alexander Savage?" and shut their mouth instantly.

So your implied odd sense of superiority is an excuse to ignore how overtuned Savage is?

[NFaelivrin]

It'd be cool if people stopped treating raiding in this game as a freaking esport. Seriously, if you're so competitive about gaming you could at least be on a game where there's a chance you might win prize money from it, not on an anime dressup mmo where any reward you get from being the best of the best becomes invalidated after 3 months. Raiding should be difficult only to the degree that it can be considered a fun challenge by the population interested in raiding (probably somewhere around 10% of active players?). Raiding shouldn't be difficult to the degree it has to become a part time job, that you pay for.

[Whiteroom]

Tbh, I think there should be some content with really low completion rates due to difficulty. The problem is, we have so little content right now, that any content is a large portion of content.

That there is a NM and Savage is good and bad for me. Good in that I don't miss anything besides some gear that will be obsolete in 3.2 and some mechanics. Bad in that I don't miss anything as well, since its a rehash.