Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
These people are also not participating in Savage content. The only content these people are participating in where the probability to fail at all is greater than zero are Alexander and Sophia normal.

I'm not sure what game you are playing, but in my FFXIV, I can spend 90% of an expert dungeon in cleric stance because nobody even needs a heal for the most part. I can only use half my rotation and still easily beat DPS checks. If that is different in your version of the game and you need those 162 substats to considerably boost clear rates, well...sucks to be you I guess? You have my sincere pity. It's not the same in my game and consequently, I don't value those stats as highly.
I play a FFXIV where average people jump right away in Thordan/Sephirot/Nidhogg/Sophia Extreme without meld, food buffs or stat pots, dying like idiots on some mechanics, while a few Vitality Materias could've saved them.
The same players who are not pulling their weight during DPS checks, where these "minor" buffs could've helped their teammates a little bit.
The same players who barely have the minimum iLv to get into these fights, because they were too lazy to run Void/Mhach a few times to upgrade their gear.

If you never saw these players, then yeah, we are not playing the same FFXIV.

By the way, you mentionned Alexander Normal. I had to do something like 20 to 25 runs of A12 to get my token, and I can assure you that I saw quite a good number of wipes that could've been avoided if people only had a few more DPS ("Oh this add is still alive with 1% HP and Alexander is using its ulimate, well, too bad I guess") and an extra few hundreds HP ("Hello Mega Holy! Oh, you have a double Weakness on you and won't survive it? Too bad I guess.")
I'm not saying that they are useful everytime, but when they are, these buffs can turn a Vote Abandon into a successful run. And the only fact that they can allow that to happen is enough to care about them instead of playing Greedy Fantasy XIV.

But there's one think I do agree with: I don't care if you go in Sastasha without melds.