16 hours of cross server zurvan extreme party finder: my thoughts

[DinahDemiurge]

After completely mastering the fight in approximate 2 hours, I spent the rest of today using cross server party finder to get my zurvan ex clear. Now it is about 14 hours after I started doing this, and I am just in total shock. The skill level of players of Final Fantasy XIV is so extremely abysmal in every single way. DPS, BRAINDEAD SIMPLE mechanics, and other bare bones player ability required is simply non existent with the players of this game. Zurvan as a fight is incredibly boring and easy, and I initially thought that SE tuned it too low. How wrong I was. This is the perfect difficulty for the mass of players. Have to move 3 feet? Die. Have to run to center and stack? Die. Have to AOE a few mobs? Die.

Specifically the players who play the "dps" jobs. I probably played with about 35-40 damage dealers today...and in a party finder with the description of "clear party -- know entire fight and all mechanics" just nothing but deaths to southern cross, and breaking tethers. I am incredibly dumbfounded by this. I like this game a lot, but the players...they all ruin it.

If SE is going to make a game that requires skill then there should be heavy gating. Until then, this is the kind of crap we are going to have to deal with constantly. no gating ruins the game. you should have to clear every other ex primal to do the new one. you can argue against this, but in the end, it does nothing but make players better, and they should be 100x better at this stage in the game.