Coils of Bahamut... and its inconsistent challenge level.

[Lambdafish]

It has been a while since I last ran vault, but even though I wasn't there for pharos pre-nerf I was under the impression that it was hard enough to make pugs wipe, from what I read. Weeping city was ok since it's something you run once a week, so 1-2 wipes would be bearable, but 1-2 wipes on average in something I run daily, yeah I'd rather not. I don't remember if vault was that hard or not though.

The vault is nowhere near as hard as Pharos Sirius was, and even then it was only really one boss that got nerfed (the first one). The problem with the boss is that he hit a bit hard, and the strategy wasn't all that clearly telegraphed, which led to wipes. This was a design problem, not a difficulty problem, but the motivation of the devs was still the same. The vault is a different story, wipes are not that frequent, but the dungeon is demanding on all players, and actually feels like what you would expect from an endgame dungeon (see also: Aurum vale/Amdapor Keep pre nerf/Wanderers Palace)