FFXIV: The State Of Raiding

[randysquirrel]

I don't raid myself

I do, and find Midas to be just about the right level of difficulty for my taste. It's challenging, and every person has to pull their weight and cover certain mechanics, with things like silences and stuns falling to different people, times when everyone needs to help with mitigating something, etc. There is no other content in the game where anyone could give a fck whether I apoc something or not, and in the 2-3 years I've been playing I've never felt any benefit from using Surecast. I love that these are finally useful somewhere

you can't afford to have anyone trying to YOLO their way thru, with the rest of the group carrying them. This is the only real difficulty, partying with people that actually know their job

[Toguro]

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How hard is it? I've heard more than enough horror stories with A6S. But what about A8S?

[randysquirrel]

How hard is it? I've heard more than enough horror stories with A6S. But what about A8S?

We're not on 8 yet, still trying to tidy up 7 and get it down at last, but 8 looks like it's going to be a lot of fun

[Melch]

How hard is it? I've heard more than enough horror stories with A6S. But what about A8S?

A6S problem is about coordination and the ability to keep your focus because you start over from the first boss everytime you wipe. Most of the bad things happen because of lack of communication. Once you get it, this fight is actually super easy.

[FoxyAreku]

On a semi-related note, I've been thinking about this more and more recently.

I think the Midas model was a great one time thing, but if this continues it's going to be absolutely terrible and put raiding in an even worse spot than it was in Gordias.

Mainly, I'm talking about how gordias savage gear was made useless the INSTANT the patch dropped. What was even the point for getting it then? In coil, you would use that gear to move on to the next. This makes raiding feel even more pointless and will make even less people do it.

It's just...weird. Why can't we go back to the Coil model? Surely they can see that people were happier then. All putting in an easy mode did was hurt the raid scene, and even though I made millions off of it, having crafted gear be better than the previous tier the instant the next section comes out just isn't healthy. Maybe delay the crafted gear a month or two, and make it so there's only one mid-core difficulty again. (This would give them more time to put content in other places as well, maybe give us 3 dungeons in EX roulette again?)