Quote Originally Posted by Estellios View Post
Exactly. You have to think about this from a game mechanics/balance standpoint. Why did you Reraise in FF11? You used up a rare item upon entering a battle, it was a place/camp that took a long, difficult time to get to, it was a fight that had time limitations placed on it (3 days to reenter, need to gather items from events in other 3 day timers to enter, etc), or you just didn't want to homepoint and lose XP.

FF14 has none of those issues. From what I understand the item to get drops from Ifrit doesn't actually get used up till you beat him and it is an easy farm to get another item. You can reenter the fight after a few minutes and you can return from inside dungeons to the dungeon entrance so you can try again and get back to the point you were at. Travel is quick and painless with chocobos, airships, and teleporting. And lastly, we don't lose XP.
I have to agree the punishment for death or failure in XI was much worse than XIV. If they allowed Reraise to work just like a normal raise "Zombie" fights would be very easy to pull off as the first death doesn't really deter you much from fighting hell you even raise with full "Weak" HP.