Royal Menagerie

[Samsta]

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It isn't anywhere near an ex fight, most of the stuff is literally just dodging and old mechanics, what makes it hard is the playerbase who have grown accustomed to msq content being completely braindead. I also really doubt there is rng in that fight that can punish you like that, since every fight in this game is heavily scripted to the point when pretty much every move happens in determined order and I doubt the case here would be much different, if you feel there is a stack marker when everyone is busy its most likely by design.

[Blanchimont]

It isn't anywhere near an ex fight, most of the stuff is literally just dodging and old mechanics, what makes it hard is the playerbase who have grown accustomed to msq content being completely braindead. I also really doubt there is rng in that fight that can punish you like that, since every fight in this game is heavily scripted to the point when pretty much every move happens in determined order and I doubt the case here would be much different, if you feel there is a stack marker when everyone is busy its most likely by design.

I disagree. Compare the Royal Menagerie to The Pool of Tribute (Extreme) or Omega. The lack of new mechanics does not automatically make it easy. Instead, it is probably the easiest by a long shot while Omega 2 or Omega 4 are probably the difficult ones (O2 in my opinion because of the gravity and upper and lower layer of mechanics that stack on top of one another makes it harder to tell what is going on until you've memorized it). Again, you have seen most of these mechanics before in previous fights, but it does not make it easy. The combination of a bunch of potential one hit kills to keep track of is what makes it difficult and the lack of instant death conditions is what makes it easy. Using that logic, Omega 3 should be hard because of the new mechanics introduced. We have the strange maze, the four role panels, the frog transformation, and the earth and ice panels. But, that is not the case. In fact, Omega 3 is the easiest of all four in my opinion. The entire Omega raid feels easier than the Royal Menagerie right now because of the numerous instant death conditions in the Royal Menagerie because the Royal Menagerie has twice as many mechanics. Your post game dungeons should not be easier than the main story quest and the main story quest boss should not feel like an extra hard bonus boss in a game.