Quote Originally Posted by JunseiKei View Post
Actually, Yoshida pointed out that it was attuned for the current ilevel of the gear. If Sophia EX drops and the current ilevel is i380, the fight is tuned to i380. You might need healer and tank DPS for minimum ilevel, which he even mentioned.
A11S/A12S minimum ilvl was i255 if you needed to use raid finder during the released period without a full remade. Now imagine how many people today at their current skill level couldn't clear such content at that ilvl? Let alone without healer DPS.

World and even top-server clears require healer DPS, you can even watch Angered or Elysium's Creator Savage clear videos and see players like Ella, Ayesha, Kio, and Vana all taking advantage of healer DPS whenever possible. There isn't a single GCD they are standing around doing nothing. Just that alone is quite a skill gap between good DPS healers and the bottom of the barrel that stand around wasting GCDs, and they are doing this at barely i255. If you notice they cleared A12S just right after second bleed. There are "clear" parties today that can't even skip first or second at i270.