Are the DPS checks for Nidhogg EX excessive?

[Stormfur]

Not excessive at all -- if you think the adds are bad, you're really going to struggle with fang and claw!

That being said though, I know my DPS is not the best and I'm actively looking for ways to improve too.

[Souljacker]

Not excessive at all -- if you think the adds are bad, you're really going to struggle with fang and claw!

That being said though, I know my DPS is not the best and I'm actively looking for ways to improve too.

Actually Fang and Claw are more dependent on doing mechanics, not raw DPS numbers. As long as reds are eating damage and blues aren't, you're getting to towers. the biggest problems I have seen there is healers refusing to stoneskin the blue stack point player and players mixing up their tether colors.

[Judge_Xero]

If you are failing the DPS check in that fight then the group you are running with needs to get better at their classes.

This 100%. I join clear parties to see if I can help carry people for a clear but there are still so many doing 400-600 DPS @i225+.

Tried SSS yet?

People really need to use the tools available to them instead of wasting other people's time. Like sure there are mechanics that interrupt your rotation but really?!?! 1/3 1/4 of the damage that should be going out for the minimum ilvl.

[Souljacker]

This 100%. I join clear parties to see if I can help carry people for a clear but there are still so many doing 400-600 DPS @i225+.

400 DPS? That person might actually be AFK and only auto-attacking. I can't imagine any rotation at all, even old 2.0 ones, that would result in only 400 DPS at an ilvl of 220. Are you sure you weren't looking at the healers?

[Remus]

400 DPS? That person might actually be AFK and only auto-attacking. I can't imagine any rotation at all, even old 2.0 ones, that would result in only 400 DPS at an ilvl of 220. Are you sure you weren't looking at the healers?

Well if your not using buffs really and not keeping dots up I can see that being possible.

[Alistaire]

No. People are just garbage.

Also, when's the last time an EX primal was nerfed? Ramuh's Titan-egi's tanking?

That's the opposite; that's the players' abilities getting nerfed, not the primal. Also not that it mattered by that point but the lustrate change killed another strat there too.

[Xatsh]

DPS checks for Nid EX are perfectly fine.

The DPS on NA servers on the other hand seem to be getting worse and worse though. In half the parties some healers and tanks that are only around Ilvl225 are outdmging DPS by 1-2 hundred now days in fights. This should never happen. People just need to learn the rotation or they need to simple fail all the content. Doing rotations is not hard.

But people need to learn if you are ILVL 220 + and are only getting to 66% on the Nid EX practice dummy... you probably really really suck at your job and should fix it.

One simple fix would be to require people to do the dummy, can't kill it can't que up for the fight. Would stop the people who are clueless on their jobs from wasting 7 others ppls time in party finder and would make actually joining a learning party for a newer person not a utter waste of time.

[Causality]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-their-weight.

Both this one, and the linked above being on the front page of GD at the same time... I can't.... It's just... LOL!

I stand by Parse Box watchers more so than Mediocre players as being that OP's problem

[Beckett]

The only thing that needs to be nerfed on Nidhogg are the drop rates on the Lanner Whistle and Nidhogg's Scale.

[Chrolo]

He drops a whistle? ive done Nidhogg enough times to have all weapons except for 2 (bought about 6) and never seen that damn whistle drop. Scales maybe 4 lol