Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
To be fair, it's not like ravana and bismarck ex were all that difficult when they were released, either. Really the only difficulty has ever been getting a group of 8 to fire on all cylinders, at least for those without statics. Once you learn and know the fights they repeat 100% without deviation, save for possible phase skip type stuff from having great dps. And that's when it get's stale.
I still feel like bismark and ravana ex were fairly difficult when they were current. I'm not implying they were super impossible but still there were some nasty dps and heal checks in those fight and the mechanics where pretty unforgiving.